Friday, April 20, 2012

Acid and Base Mindmap

I discovered a free mind mapping tool today.  I know many of you have used mind maps.  With text2mindmap you just enter your outline and it creates a mind map. Freeze the map to manipulate after your color choices are made.  Save the map as a jpg file when you are done.  This is a GREAT product #5 for the chapter 8 solutions project. (Use 15 or more terms in your mindmap!)

Here's my acid/base mindmap to show you what you are going to learn in this acid/base chapter.


Thursday, April 12, 2012

Equilibrium

PowerPoint Notes about the Equilibrium Constant and  LeChatlier's Principle  (Have you read chap 11?)

Sciencegeek Equilibrium Practice

Brightstorm Calculation Help

800mainstreet - a good review site

LeChat - 4 questions with answer KEY

Quiz with Answers

Test Like MULTIPLE CHOICE PRACTICE with KEY

You have LOTS of resources above to study with.  I recommend reading the notes ppt through carefully and if you haven't reading the chapter.  Of course you should look at the problem sets.  You'll find this chapter very logical, but you must memorize a few key pieces.  To memorize its best to study in shorter sessions and even better if you sleep between them.  Good luck studying for Monday's test.


Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Thermodynamics

Here is a great  multiple choice review at sciencegeek.net. 

READING GUIDE ANSWER KEY - ALL SIX PAGES
 - updated link 

QUIZ tomorrow.  Know what G, S, and H are and know their units!
                               Know the equation that relates them!






Monday, March 26, 2012

Studying for Thermochemistry

The powerpoint will be posted on 3/26 on the assignment calendar.
 Here is the Hess's Law practice with answers.
Another great place to study is actually from sparknotes: we do not have to calculate enthalpy from bond energies, but everything else matches our unit.
Your reading guide is very useful; this book has good concise explanations for this chapter. We have already looked at the endo and exothermic energy diagrams in chapter 9 that include activation energy. Don't forget about those.
Here is the heat of solution lab that we completed or will complete in the computer lab.
Email me if I can post something else for you!

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Concentration of Solutions

Problem Set Answers - Proper sig figs may not be represented here. I believe they are all within reason.
8.8a 4 M, b 0.25 M, c 1 M
8.9 504 g HNO3, 144 g glucose
8.10 0.2 M
8.11  4 M Na+  (Please include the M of the sodium carbonate solution.)
8.12 1.6 M
8.13 0.47 molal
8.14 Use the density of benzene to calculate mass.   0.284 molal
Review your quiz with molarity, molality, mole fraction, and % mass for the QUIZ 3/2
 

Extra Practice? 
All of these at sciencegeek at great practice for your chem math skills. g/L and ppm are not on our quiz!

Another Sciencegeek.net practice page
All eight of these are great quiz practice

Multiple Choice Q and A
These are more like the test questions you usually see.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Materials Science is FUN!

Thank you to our guest speaker today! Here's the butterfly video he mentioned!
Clemson has a great materials science program and we enjoyed seeing plasma created right before our eyes!