General
Information About Lectures
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GENERAL
Here you will find the information you will
need to prepare for each class lecture. There is a separate page for each week
of the class. On each week's page you will find the learning objectives
for the lecture, the reading assignment for the lecture, presentations of the lecture material (as PDF,
Powerpoint, and RealPlayer files), answers to the
example problems at the end of each chapter in the text (Kehew, 2001), and
the problem sets that you must complete each week.
LECTURES
In general the lectures for each week are divided
into four parts. You have several choices for viewing the
lecture material. For each part of the lecture you can view
and listen to a RealPlayer file with both slides and audio,
you can listen to just the audio, or you can view or print out
the original Powerpoint file. You can also view or print a PDF
file containing the lectures for the entire week together with
detailed notes. Use whichever of these options works for you. In
some of the RealPlayer files there may be some occasional
glitches such as a missing slide or interruptions to the
audio. However, these glitches should not impair your ability
to master the material. The Powerpoint and PDF files are the
definitive versions.
ANSWERS TO EXAMPLE PROBLEMS IN KEHEW (2001)
On most lecture pages, there will be solutions to
example problems at the end of
the chapter in Kehew (2001). You have the same options for viewing these
solutions as for the lectures. These solutions are quite detailed, and
should be invaluable in helping you to learn how to do the problems
assigned to you each week.
WEEKLY PROBLEM SETS
Each week you will be required to do a problem
set and hand it in. These problem sets will be due on
Thursday of the
following week at 8:00 AM Pacific Time. For example, the problem set that goes with
Week 1 (week of Jan. 15) will be due on Thursday (Jan. 25) of Week 2 at
8:00 AM Pacific Time. The
answer keys will be posted to the website immediately after the due date
and time, so NO LATE ASSIGNMENTS
CAN BE ACCEPTED. You are encouraged to work
together on the homework assignments, and seek help from
people and sources in addition to me. However, each assignment
should be your own work. Conscientious completion of the
homework assignments is probably the single most important key
to success on the exams. Information about sending in assignments can be found on the Help
page.
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| Brief
Lecture Schedule |
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Week No. |
Lecture |
Date |
| 1 |
Chemical
Principles |
Jan. 15 |
| 2 |
Chemical
Equilibrium |
Jan. 22 |
| 3 |
Chemical
Kinetics
and
Acid-base Reactions & The Carbonate System |
Jan. 29 |
| 4 |
The
Carbonate System (continued) |
Feb. 5 |
| 5 |
Mineral
Weathering and Mineral Surface Processes - I
Clay Minerals and
Solubility of Silica and Al- and Fe-oxides |
Feb. 12 |
| 6 |
Mineral
Weathering and Mineral Surface Processes - II
Incongruent Dissolution and Activity Diagrams |
Feb. 19 |
| 7 |
Mineral
Weathering and Mineral Surface Processes - III
Sorption and Ion Exchange |
Feb. 26 |
| 8 |
Redox
Reactions and Processes - I |
Mar. 5 |
| Take-Home
Mid-Term |
Mar.
2-5 |
| SPRING
BREAK |
Mar. 12 |
| 9 |
Redox
Reactions and Processes - II
pe-pH (Eh-pH) diagrams |
Mar. 19 |
| 10 |
Redox
Reactions and Processes - III |
Mar. 26 |
| 11 |
Structures,
Properties, and Occurrence of Organic Compounds in Natural
Waters - I |
Apr. 2 |
| 12 |
Structures,
Properties, and Occurrence of Organic Compounds in Natural
Waters - II |
Apr. 9 |
| 13 |
Structures,
Properties, and Occurrence of Organic Compounds in Natural
Waters - III |
Apr. 16 |
| 14 |
Biotransformation
of Organic Compounds |
Apr.
23 |
| 15 |
Environmental
Geochemistry and Radioactive Waste Disposal |
Apr. 30 |
| Final
Exam |
May
7 |
