Friday, February 23, 2018

VIDEO: ENTHALPY OF REACTIONS

The following video by Paul Anderson was introduced in class on Thursday, Feb. 23rd.   It helpfully reviews some of the information already given in lecture regarding heat and the enthalpy of reactions. It also features a very handy, step-by-step demonstration of how to apply Hess's Law (a SUBTLE and advanced topic) to calculate enthalpies.




Students have an assignment based on that video, which is available HERE as a PDF file.

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

SYLLABUS, UNIT 6: THERMOCHEMISTRY and KINETICS

Students, here is the new Syllabus for Unit 6, which began on the 13th.  Note that it includes a handful of items from the previous unit,and has not one, but two Study Guides reflecting two different sections of notes: