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Monday, January 27, 2014
In class we practiced unit conversion by doing a glue in sheet. The homework is a two sided sheet. Side one asks you to fix some common errors people made on last week's final exam. Tuesday, January 28, 2014 School cancelled due to sub zero ambience. Wednesday, January 29, 2014 For more help on today's topic, read your textbook, pp. 252 - 255. Topic: How do we do we calculate the Limiting Reactant? Class notes here. Tonight's Homework: Snowman sheet. Thursday, January 30, 2014 Give homework answers. Do the prelab for aluminum can recycling. Answers to the MondayHW sheet and the Snowman Sheet here. Friday, January 30, 2014 Lab Day 1: Aluminum can recycling. Monday, February 3, 2014 Lab Day 2: Aluminum Can Recycling. Homework tonight: Do Calculations 1 & 2 on the lab report sheet -- don't do the rest of it.. Big hint for solving tonight's homework here. Another big hint is the balanced reaction: Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Stuck on the homework? Check out the hints in today's class notes, here. Tonight's homework is the unicycle sheet. Wednesday, February 5, 2014 Answers to the homework due today. Homework tonight is Things sheets. Three hints for solving your homework are here. Thursday, February 6, 2014 We did a sheet, to do, to get ready for tomorrow. It won't be checked for credit ever. The answers are here. This was the last day to work on the lab. We checked the mass of the KAl(SO4)2-12H2O we grew. Write up your lab report please. Both sheets (reading and data) should be stapled and turned in by Friday at 4pm. Friday, February 7, 2014 Test! Covers the last two weeks, mainly Limiting Reactants, Percent Yield, Theoretical Yield. This is worth half a test grade (50 pts instead of 100 pts). Monday, February 10, 2014 We took notes onto a prepared sheet. The notes should be memorized for this Friday's ten point quiz. The video that goes with the notes is here. Tuesday, February 11, 2014 We did a demonstration in class. Click here to see a YouTube version of it. Class notes here. Homework is the Fork Sheet. [UPDATE: SOLD OUT :( ] Remember the ICE CUBE neutrino telescope from Antarctica? The one detecting neutrinos from distant galaxies? The guys that work on it are giving a free night talk tonight at Madison's Overture Center on State Street. Announcement. Wednesday, February 12, 2014. Answers to homework due today here. Class notes from today are here. Tonight's homework is the Knife & Fork sheet.. We watched a short video that showed liquid nitrogen freezing, using it to initiate an explanation of the vapor pressure that would occur when the nitrogen melted then boiled. Thursday, February 13, 2014 Answers to the homework due today. Homework: From your textbook, write the answers in your notebook, to be checked as usual. must write the question for full credit page 289: 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 Can't find your textbook right now? Click here for a snapshot of the book! UPDATED: class notes here showing the technical definition of Boiling. Friday, February 14, 2014 Quiz today covering the lessons from Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week. You do not need to memorize the pressure numbers from Monday, they will be given to you on quizzes and tests. Lab: melting Monday, February 17, 2014 Notes here. Due today: Friday's Melting Point of Stearic Acid Lab Homework: Corkscrew sheet. Tuesday. February 18, 2014 Video today describing phase changes. Homework tonight: The Choo Choo sheet. Notes from today and answers to the homework here. Wednesday, February 19, 2014 Lesson: the Nature of Solids. Class notes and homework answers here. Video today showing Triple Point. Homework is the Blender Sheet. Thursday, February 20, 2014 Lesson: In groups of three, practice what we've learned in this unit. Today's practice sheet is here Answers to the practice sheet are here. Answers to the Blender Sheet due today are here Monday, February 24, 2014 Test 2 is today. Did you review everything on the Kudos Sheet? Tuesday, February 25, 2014 Homework: none Lecture notes here. (There are several new definitions to know) Wednesday, February 26, 2014 Notes from today here. (thanks Kiela (Nu Nu)) Homework: The Airplane Sheet. Thursday, February 27, 2014 Doing heat problems with chemical reactions. Answers to the Airplane Sheet here. Homework tonight is from the blue textbook you have at home: page 306: 15, 16, 18 and page 322 41a, 44, 45. Friday, February 28, 2014 Quiz (10 pts) on things learned Tuesday and Wednesday. Answers to the book homework due today. Tonight's homework is the Omega Sheet Today's classnotes are here. Monday, March 3, 2014 We took notes from the textbook and passed around an ice cube. Answers to the Omega Worksheet (heat of formation and potential energy) Homework tonight is The Elephant on a Bike note taking. Tuesday, March 4, 2014 Learn to calculate heat. Notes here. Answers to the homework due today. Homework: The Elephant-Riding-A-Car Worksheet Wednesday, March 5, 2014 If you have an excused absence today you need not make it up. We'll be using LIQUID NITROGEN in 6th and 7th Period! Thursday, March 6, 2014 Lab -- calorimetry of hot metal slugs: Friday, March 7, 2014 Lesson: How to calculate delta H using Standard Heats of Formation. Answers to the Elephant-On-A-Car and Classnotes Here. Quiz 3 today. [note: quizzes never cover anything that was newly learned the day before] Answers to the Elephant-Car HW due today Monday, March 10, 2014 Lesson: Practice with heats of formation (notes here). Homework: textbook page 317 do #30a, b, c Tuesday, March 11, 2014 We practiced solving the math problems which might be on the test tomorrow. by working on the Squid Sheet. (a thermochemistry worksheet for heat of formation and calorimetry). UPDATED: Homework answers HERE. Your only homework tonight is to study. The squid sheet will not be checked. CLICK HERE if you need a table of energy values for solving your practice problems. Wednesday, March 12, 2014 Test 3 [worth 100 pts]; study all the notes and sheets since the "Airplane sheet" Thursday, March 13 2014 First day of gas laws. We saw how to relate temperature to pressure using a particle model and a math equation. Today's notes here. Today's homework is the Elephant Slopestyle worksheet. Friday, March 14, 2014 We watched a video about a Chinese Lantern: first, second Class notes here. Homework is the Elephant on a Skateboard Answers to the Elephant Slopestyle sheet here. Monday, March 17, 2014 We learned a new formula and learned some new rules (notes) and applied it to solve tonight's homework: Elephant on a Dumpster Tuesday, March 18, 2014 A.C.T. Testing. No lecture or homework. Wednesday, March 19, 2014 We glued in a chart in our notes to help us keep track of the three different math skills we;ll need by March 27 Test [click here]. We started using a new formula, PV=nRT, sometimes called "The Ideal Gas Law" Notes here, including answers to homework due today. Tonight's homework is the Balloon Sheet. Thursday, March 20,2014 Lab: Charles Law, measured with a drop of oil in a sealed glass tube. Answers to homework due today (the Balloon Sheet). Friday, March 21, 2014 Quiz: Ideal gas and Combined gas law. Monday, M4rch 24, 2014 Lesson: How do we use PV = nRT to solve stoichiometry problems? Classnotes here. A sheet that we solved in partners (not checked for credit) here. [Try it and keep it in your notes] Tonight's homework, the Clothespin Sheet here. Tuesday, March 25, 2014 Lesson: How to solve a proportional problem. Here are classnotes and answers to the Clothespin sheet. Tonight's homework is the Kool Aid sheet. Wednesday, March 26, 2014 For a lesson: we spent the whole time working on 1) answers to the homework due today. 2) solving the Squirrel review sheet for tomorrow's test (see answers below) Homework tonight: tomorrow at the test turn in the review sheet! Ten points (double normal)! Thursday, March 27, 2014 Test 4: Gas Laws (Study homework and notes since March 13) Answers to the test due today Tuesday, April 1, 2014 Diagram for homework tonight, from p.483 of your textbook. Homework tonight is the Cork Man sheet. Wednesday, April, 2014 Notes for today, incl answers to the Cork Man. Homework for tonight: The Trikke Sheet.\ Thursday, April 3, 2014 Lesson: Water orientation and examples of choosing "solute" and "solvent" Homework: none! Friday, April 4, 2014 Quiz today! And we made posters of dissolving ionic substances.. Class notes here. Homework: none, again! Monday, April 7 2014 Lesson: How to calculate molarity. Tonight's homework is the Kite Sheet. Tuesday, April 8 2014 What are colligative properties and how to calculate dilution. Class notes here., including answers to the Kite sheet. Tonight's homework is the Cork Dog sheet. Wednesday, April 8, 2014 Today's activity: Practice and Review. Notes here, including answers to Kitty & Cork Horse Thursday, April 9, 2014 Lab Day. Take Friday's Test today (in class or after school) if you want. Friday, April 10, 2014 Test 5 covering about a third of the material in Chapter 17 of your textbook, including pages 475, 482, 483, 509-512, 518-519. |
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