Friday, January 26, 2007
Friday, Day 4
Honors: we continued with the Math of Chem by focusing on the Law of Conservation of Mass and Charge as applied to "balancing chemical equations/reactions". I gave you several tips on how to balance the equations efficiently. Try to do the balancing worksheets this weekend (to be posted by Saturday) and I will give you some more examples and practice with that on Monday.
We also talked about some types of reactions (D Period, we only got to "double replacement", so you should look at the rest of the reaction types on page 4 of the "Math of Chem" notes that are now online). We will review them on Monday also.
Regents: we reviewed the second quarter lab exam; I tried to EMPHASIZE test-taking skills and how to AVOID errors on future tests by DRAWING and LABELING and PRE-PHRASING your answers before you look at the answer choices. We will finish that review on Monday. The previous test, Bonding II, corrections are due on Monday. Make sure that you KNOW why you got an answer wrong and WHY the correct answer is CORRECT. Email me if you have a problem understanding something.
AP: thanks to Mackey for showing us the ins and outs of the Ti calc. I will put up tutorials for the 83 and 89 and I will try to put up some more Kinetics problems that have worked out solutions from the raw experimental data via the calculator. I will also post the problems that we did today.
On Monday, we will solve some rate CONSTANT and activation energy problems by using graphical analysis and the Arrhenius equation.
We also talked about some types of reactions (D Period, we only got to "double replacement", so you should look at the rest of the reaction types on page 4 of the "Math of Chem" notes that are now online). We will review them on Monday also.
Regents: we reviewed the second quarter lab exam; I tried to EMPHASIZE test-taking skills and how to AVOID errors on future tests by DRAWING and LABELING and PRE-PHRASING your answers before you look at the answer choices. We will finish that review on Monday. The previous test, Bonding II, corrections are due on Monday. Make sure that you KNOW why you got an answer wrong and WHY the correct answer is CORRECT. Email me if you have a problem understanding something.
AP: thanks to Mackey for showing us the ins and outs of the Ti calc. I will put up tutorials for the 83 and 89 and I will try to put up some more Kinetics problems that have worked out solutions from the raw experimental data via the calculator. I will also post the problems that we did today.
On Monday, we will solve some rate CONSTANT and activation energy problems by using graphical analysis and the Arrhenius equation.
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