Chemistry 490/590

Polymer Chemistry

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Fall 2004 An Introduction to the Course Syllabus Administrative Information

Grades for the Final Exam and the Course are Listed Here

Announcements

• Click Here to see a plot of the degree of polymerization of a chain as a funcion of percent conversion, P. Note how the curve is flat for most of the reaction progress, but has a sharp upturn above 98%. This exemplifies why you need to get nearly complete conversion of the step growth reaction in order to see high molecular weight polymer
  
• I will be traveling to conferences and for experiments a few times this semester and thus there will be a need to reschedule classes. As of Nov. 1, I know that classes have been/will be canceled on
  • Sept. 10
  • Oct. 29
  • Nov. 5 and 29
    
    
• Make-up classes have been/will be made up on
  • Oct 7
  • Nov. 9
  • Nov. 18 (Buehler 475)
  • Nov. 23 (Buehler 475)
    
    
• I would like to have an e-mail distribution list for this course. Therefore, please send me an e-mail within the first week of class with a message such as "please use this e-mail address to contact me". I will then make an e-mail group that I can use to notify you of schedule changes or remind you of exams and homework assignments, among other things.
  

Material Covered:

Every other week or so, I will post a description of the material that has been covered in class. I will also post the references from which much of the material was derived. Just click on the links to view the information for a given time span.

1. Material Covered Aug 22 - Sept. 8
   
   
2. Material Covered Sept. 10- Sept. 22
   
   
3. Material Covered Sept. 22-Oct. 13
   
   
4. Material Covered Oct. 18-Nov. 9

Homework Problems:

Homework Answers:

Exam Results

• Statistics for Exam #1
  
• Statistics for Exam #2
  
• Statistics for Exam #3

Practice Tests

• Practice Test #1

• Answers to Practice Test #1

• Practice Test #2

• Answers to Practice Test #2
  
  
• Practice Test #3
  
  
• Answers to Practice Test #3
  
  
• Practice test for Final
  
  
• Answers to the Practice test for the Final

Resources on the Web

• Polymer Macrogalleria - Web pages designed by students and faculty at Southern Mississippi to introduce and teach Polymer Science to anyone who is interested. This may be a useful page to supplement the information taught in this course.

• Links to Polymer Programs in the U.S. - Link to Polymer Science Sites organized by a professor at Virginia Tech.
  
• UTK Library Chemistry Subject Page. - This is a GREAT resource with links to other chemistry sites on the web, chemical companies, Organizations and Societies, and much more.
  
• Chemistry Software and Information Resources - An interesting starting point when looking for software related to chemistry.
  
• The Polymer Chemistry Hypertext Document - A very useful educational page that offers a broad distribution of information and links.
  
• The UCLA Chemistry Pointer Page - This page is an excellent starting point from which to find anything chemical on the web.
  
• The National Plastics Museum - A direct link to a museum devoted to materials and polymers.

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