DAY 8: NOTES, POWER POINTS

***UPDATE***

The FINAL in this course will be administered after the break (11:05-1:55) on Wed., July 12th.  

NO HOMEWORK WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER WEDNESDAY, ONLY CLASSWORK

Mr.Hatfield's 2nd-session Chemistry students took their third test today.   A class roster of 44 has now been reduced to 23 actively attending.   

The good news is that some have raised their output in the course, and now have a passing grade.  The concern is that still too many students are failing to complete work outside of class, and thus are in danger of not passing the course.   With that in mind, here are more resources to help students 'up their game' .

FIRST:   Students received notes on reaction rates and equilibrium constants in class.   A copy of the Notes can be found HERE:

NEXT:  Students will be using a third Study Guide to complete the rest of their Notes, based  on material from Chapter 19.   They can download a copy of the Power Point containing those Notes HERE:

FINALLY:  Students were given a worksheet based on the following video, shown in class.   This worksheet is due tomorrow!

You can view the video, below:

It demonstrates the centrality of water to most acid-base chemistry, and explains how to calculate equilibrium constants for acids (Ka) and bases (Kb), and how to express those as pKa's or pKb's:

DAY 7: EQUILIBRIUM

Students:  here is Paul Andersen's video on 'Equilibrium', the final video worksheet this week:



There is also a link to where you can download a PDF version of the video worksheet, HERE.

The final unit comes next week.   Students can download a copy of the Power Point containing those Notes, over the weekend HERE:

DAY 6: ENTHALPY OF REACTION

Students began the morning session today by attempting the second test, which covered gas laws.   A very large number of students were not prepared, judging by their Composition Books. If students don't complete work assigned outside of class the same date it is assigned, they will fall further and further behind.

With that in mind, the  following video by Paul Anderson was introduced in class on Day 5 (July 5th).   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.

DAY 5: THERMOCHEMISTRY

Students today performed the 'Boyle's Law Lab' and the calculations based on it, which should include a pair of graphs.   This and the previous lab will be graded based on the completed Lab Report in student's Composition Books, during their . . .

TEST # 2, WHICH HAPPENS AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS, TOMORROW!

Students are reminded that they should have all the notes on properties of gases and gas laws in their Comp Books, which they are allowed to use during the exam.

AND, speaking of Notes . . . .

Here are the Power Point Notes for the next section of this course: Thermochemistry.  

In this you will find discussions of phase changes (again!),  heat transfer, the 1st and 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics, and problems to calculate energy (q) , specific heats and enthalpies of reaction:

Click here to download those notes.

DAY 4: COURSE UPDATE

Students took their first Unit Test at the beginning of this day of instruction.

This test focused primarily on review material from the first semester (periodic table, molar masses, moles and stoichiometry) that is required to understand other material in the course: gas laws, thermochemistry, equilibrium and acid-base problems. 

Calculations were thus confined to review material.  Calculations based on gas law problems will appear on Unit Test 2, which will be given on Day 7, July 6th.

UNFORTUNATELY, 12 STUDENTS FAILED TO ATTEND TODAY.   

• FIVE STUDENTS NOW HAVE MORE THAN TWO ABSENCES, AND WILL BE DROPPED.

• TWO STUDENTS NOW HAVE TWO ABSENCES, AND ARE AT RISK OF BEING DROPPED.

• THREE OTHER STUDENTS WHO FAILED TO ATTEND TODAY HAVE F's IN THE COURSE, AND MUST MAKE UP THEIR UNIT 1 TEST, WHILE DOING ALL THE REST OF THE WORK:  THIS WAS A BAD CHOICE, AND THEY ARE LIKELY TO FAIL