UTPA STEM/CBI Courses/Stoichiometry (Jorgensen)

Course Title: CHEM1411

Lecture Topic: Stoichiometry

Instructor: Kameron Jorgensen

Institution: TAMIU (Texas A&M International University)


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Course Objectives

  • Primary Objectives- By the next class period students will be able to:
    • Understand general principles of chemistry.
    • Understand stoichiometry
    • Demonstrate the ability to solve quantitative problems.
    • Recognize the role of chemistry in real world issues.
    • Demonstrate knowledge of common reactions and reaction mechanisms of the elements & compounds.


  • Sub Objectives- The objectives will require that students be able to:
    • Write and balance chemical equations
    • Use coefficients and conversions to calculate qualitative amounts of chemicals


  • Difficulties- Students may have difficulty:
    • Algebra
    • Conversions
    • Balancing equations


  • Real-World Contexts- There are many ways that students can use this material in the real-world, such as:
    • Chemicals needed to make a certain amount of aspirin.
    • Water stored in a camel hump.
    • Weight of chemicals needed to burn enough fuel for a spaceship.
    • CO2 footprint from an automobile
    • Amount of chemicals needed to fill the airbag in your car


Model of Knowledge

  • Concept Map
    • Consider the following Graph:


  • Content Priorities
    • Enduring Understanding
      • Understand how to balance a chemical reaction
      • Understand how to go from mass of A to mass of B in a reaction AB
    • Important to Do and Know
      • Understand types of reactions, e.g. exchange, combustion, etc.
      • Understand how to balancing complex reactions
    • Worth Being Familiar with
      • Familiarity with real world applications


Assessment of Learning

  • Formative Assessment
    • In Class (groups)
      • YouTube presentations on topic
      • Online examples
    • Homework (individual)
      • Online homework assignments
  • Summative Assessment
    • Online Quizzes
    • Online Exams

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OBJECTIVE

By the next class period, students will be able to:

  • Understand general principles of chemistry.
  • Understand stoichiometry
  • Demonstrate the ability to solve quantitative problems.
  • Recognize the role of chemistry in real world issues.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of common reactions and reaction mechanisms of the elements & compounds.

The objectives will require that students be able to:

  • Solving real world problems using derivatives
  • Find absolute maximum or minimum value of a function f.



THE CHALLENGE

You are hired as the laboratory manager at a major pharmaceutical company. Your first task is to purchase chemicals for the aspirin production line in order to produce 125,000 aspirin bottles per day.

GENERATE IDEAS

  • How much aspirin is in each bottle?
  • What is the total amount of aspirin needed to be produced?
  • What chemicals are used in the production of aspirin?
  • Is any product lost in the production line?


MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES

Provided by professor at the end of the Generate ideas portion. (You tube presentation, research articles, etc.)


RESEARCH & REVISE

  • Examine typical aspirin daily production
  • Examining typical production line % loss
  • Examine reactions for aspirin production
  • Balancing chemical equations
  • Computing moles of B from mass of B
  • Converting moles of B to moles of A
  • Examine unit conversion factors


TEST YOUR METTLE

Online homework assignment related to model


GO PUBLIC

  • Homework and exam problems that apply the module concepts to unrelated applications
    • Examples:
      • An automobile engine produces energy by the combustion of gasoline, which is primarily octane, C8H18. Being a concerned citizen for your local carbon footprint you decide to compute the amount of carbon dioxide that is emitted from your car in one year.
      • The compound diborane (B2H6) was at one time considered for use as a rocket fuel. As an engineer you need to know how many grams of liquid oxygen would a rocket have to carry to burn 10 kg of diborane completely?


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