Tuesday, November 29, 2016

VIDEO: SOLUTIONS

Students can watch Paul Andersen's discussion of solutions and their properties as many times as needed here, on-line, in the video embedded below:




Students can also access the PDF version of the worksheet given in class, based on this video, HERE.

Monday, November 14, 2016

UNIT 4 SYLLABUS

Students, this is the last syllabus, for the final Unit of the fall semester.   There are only 15 days of instruction remaining in the course.   Work hard.  Try everything.   Use your time wisely.



Thursday, November 10, 2016

POWER POINT: MAPPING STOICHIOMETRY

Students, HERE is the brief Power Point Notes given in class which introduces the technique of 'mapping the equation':


This technique is complimentary to the fractional setups which we have been practicing for weeks, setups that allow chemists to convert units via cancellation:


Mapping the equation is very helpful in solving more complex, real-world problems in which the order of operations is important:

In these sort of problems, you should map the equation FIRST, then use the map as clues on how to set up the order of your fractional terms.  

Considering the mapped equation above, let's imagine that we are given 72 grams of hydrogen gas (H2), and we want to know how many grams of ammonia (NH3) can be produced in this reaction . . . .



The map tells us that after we write down the given amount as the first term, the second term should use the molar mass of hydrogen gas (2.02 g/mol), expressing it as a fractional term.   The third term, the mole ratio, we get from the balanced equation:  it tells us that for 3 moles of  on the reactant side, we should have 2 moles of  on the product side.   Finally, to convert from moles to grams, we use another molar mass, the molar mass of ammonia (17.04 g/mol ).