Chemically Unbalanced

Well, I'm not feeling well today, run down with a headache to start my morning so this will be quick.

After your quiz, you can continue to work on any number of project, the keynote, the wiki, concept checks.

If you are unable to access the wiki still, you can post to the blog instead.


Later

Well a quick update for while I'm gone.

1. Missing stuff - Please finish your extreme gas & lighter lab for the end of the week.
2. Review material - practice material will be posted on Moodle. You can access it there.
3. Concept checks - some of you are getting behind here. Check your grades on moodle to see your homework mark!
4. Keynote Project - For the last 1/2 hour next Monday we will be looking at what you've done (i.e first draft). Every group should have something considering you will have had 2.5 class periods!
5. Wiki - I've started a wiki to play with (http://stirlingchem.wetpaint.com/). Everyone has been invited, so attempt to login. I used the email provided for the blog. Once in, experiment a bit by editing your previous posts. Clean them up and remove the nicknames, replacing with real names. Also, you can delete the comments part of the postings.
6. Test on Friday. I will be back Thurday to answer any questions that may arise.

See you Thursday!

http://www.chm.davidson.edu/ChemistryApplets/Gaslaws/DaltonsLaw.html
this site talks a little about the formulas!
http://www.lon-capa.org/~mmp/applist/pvt/pvt.htm
This site shows you the ideal gas law relationships and you can choose the constants and draw on the graph!

Okay, so I have been getting a little behind on the work because I was stuck on the concept of Avogadro's Law and the concept of moles.... This one site helped me a little to understand Avagadro's reasoning a bit, and this video just helps with the concept of moles (hehe prepare yourself though!). And to top it off, this site has almost all the formulas for the laws, and works through each one with actual numbers, step by step. Have fun! ^_^ lol

Watch out for this one, I found it really helpful, but its buried in a huge pile of useless fluff.

http://www.chm.davidson.edu/ChemistryApplets/GasLaws/


This has all of the gas laws. Look at it and see if you like it!!!

This is an applet showing the ideal gas law. You need to scroll down a little bit to see it. It is an interesting little site but if you put your mind to it, it actually makes alot of sense. http://www.chm.davidson.edu/ChemistryApplets/GasLaws/GasConstant.html

This has all the different types of gas laws. See if it works for you!!!

This post has a little bit on Avogadro's law it has both text and an applet although the applet is a little low tech it is supposed to show the main parts of this gas law. In the applaet you actually have to problem solve. This should be an new direction with the posts.

v=V/n n1/v1=n2/v2

Click here.

http://www.lon-capa.org/~mmp/applist/pvt/pvt.htm

This lets you control all the variables, and will construct a graph for each different option you can pick.

Click Here!!!
Interactive program that lets you control the constant in each experiment.
Or Click Here...
Helps represent the graphs we have been looking at in class (click on graph and drag mouse).
Or Maybe Click Here
This is the site Mr.I showed us in class, he/you didn't post it when he/you said he/you would so I thought i'd do it for him/you. (you will have to go to the bottom of the page in the sixth last point where it says "click here for the applet") I find it really helpful and fun.

1. Like last week, we will need some postings & comments. Remember 1&2 as the minimum, but feel free to go above and beyond. Also comments should be constructive about what was useful and why.

2. Make a second sheet that contains info on the second chapter (This would be the McGraw Hill Ch.4 pdf file) and upload it. I prefer pdf format please :)

3. There are 2 more concept checks that need to be done!

4. Lastly, we are starting our first project! We will discuss that during monday afternoons class!

I don't know about you guys but I can never find out the conversion factors for pressure so I went out and found a site that does it, take a look at it and let me know if its correct!

http://www.csgnetwork.com/prestableinfo.html

Well here is an update on things that you need to to this week.

1. Check that you uploaded your assignment (gas law sheet) correctly. I've checked and not everyone has uploaded and most people need to make changes.

2. News Forum - New posting that needs your response.

3. Concept checks. There are 3 that you can do. You can redo anyone you wish, but there is a 5hr delay between attempts.

4. A survey to get some general info about your learning style.

Thanks!

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0031049.html

This is a site i found helpful, its not really as in depth as some of the other sites, and theres no interactive component, but i did find that it did lead a lot of interesting things, and could possibly be useful in the future.

http://chem.salve.edu/chemistry/gaslaws.asp 

This is an interactive site that I found was useful but also helped me understand a little bit more about gas laws. http://accad.osu.edu/~midori/GasLaw.html

http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/betha/nealGasLaw/fr2.2.html

http://physics.gac.edu/~chuck/PRENHALL/Chapter%2017/AABXTCZ0.html

Here is a little diagram about boyles law that will help you with the concept as volume goes down presure rises.

http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/betha/nealGasLaw/fr2.2.html

This is a little something on the gas laws, its pretty sweet

http://library.thinkquest.org/10429/low/gaslaws/gaslaws.htm
This is a site that has the properties of gases and all the different types of laws.

hey i found some interesting(-ish) sites.
click here to learn about Boyles law
and click here to watch a video/slideshow about the gas laws in general.

hehe so there they are! ^_^

Here is the site for Charles' Law. It really helps explain how to do the calculations.

http://www.ausetute.com.au/charslaw.html

If you go to the top of the page it will have a link to Boyle's Law.

It basically explains that at a constant pressure, volume of a gas is directly proportional to the absolute temperature. (So at a constant pressure, if the temperature is doubled, the volume of gas is also doubled).

Here are a couple good sites:
http://www.chm.davidson.edu/chemistryapplets/gaslaws/BoylesLaw.html
(has lots of info and can do experiment at the bottom, relating to pressure and volume).
Click here for a site that has helpful info and diagrams relating to atmospheric and gas pressure.

Well here we are, a new unit and I'd love to get things started off right. Follow the instructions below.

Here are some links to help you learn the concepts. Click on them and check out each one.

Gas Law Basics - Good to begin

(good link, go over the first 3 parts)

Boyles Law

(nice demo to show the key principle)

Basic Boyles Law

(this is OK, not my fav)

Charles Law demo

(like the Boyles law one above)

Charles Law Primer

(nice and simple)

Gas Properties

(not exciting, but covers everything)

Pressure and Temperature

(this is fun to play with. What is happening here?)

charles, boyles & avogadros law

(this one is good if you just don't worry about avogadros stuff. We will cover it later so it's not bad to learn now)

Look on the Moodle site for help with your Boyles & Charles law assignment for Tuesday. Also, I'd love your comments about these links. Which ones were good, which ones sucked?

I want you to create a Pictorial study sheet to review.

1. Open a pdf chapter. You can find them in my public folder on the server. Remember how to get there?

2. Open them by double clicking. The top menu bar contains the things you can do.
The first two keys are to move through the pages, the next two are to change size, the next three are move, select text and select a picture and the final 4 are for you to guess :)

3. Using the select button, drag around a picture, data table or chart that you think will help you study for the test.

4. Select edit & copy or hit the open apple & C key.

5. Then I want you to open a Microsoft word document (finder - applications - microsoft - microsoft word) and click edit & paste or open apple & V key.

Try to add some text with your pictures to make them easier to follow. Here is mine, I will photocopy it for you with yours as well.


Your Review page must include 4 pictures, each with text. Try to work together as a class to split up the work so that you have stuff from each chapter.

Good Luck!

Here is a little electronegativity clip of how they share, and what there number is for each of the common elements.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj3o0XvhVqQ

http://www.green-planet-solar-energy.com/vsepr.html

this is a site on VSEPR theory.... it seemed to do a good job on explaining the whole thing.

I thought this was a cool site just because it showed you some different 3d structures of a bunch of different crystals.

http://www.ausetute.com.au/intermof.html

This website also has information on the other topics, so not just the intermolecular forces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6QZRBIO0-o

This is a video on how to draw Lewis Dot Diagrams.It is a bit slow so it will take about 5 minutes to go through it all!!!

this site I found is on electronegativity the only part that might be difficult is trying to understand the formula on the size of the chlorine and fluorine atoms. But it is pretty easy to work around.


http://www.chemguide.co.uk/basicorg/bonding/eneg.html

Hey this hopefully will be useful for you all.... we already know a bunch about the Periodic Table but this should be a little extra for you. It is quite interesting to play with.

http://www.touchspin.com/chem/DisplayTable.html

http://www.neubert.net/Crystals/CRYStruc.html
This is kind of a cool site, has lots of information and a few examples that you can rotate around for better views on the structures.

Your assignment today (Wednesday the 15th) is to post a link to a website that would be useful for studying for your first unit test. This means it should be related to one of the following topics

Lewis Dot diagrams
Electronegativity
VESPR
Intermolecular Forces
Crystal Structure

Experiment a bit. Try inserting a clickable link, a picture or video. You can find those buttons here.

Also comment on 2 posts!!

Have fun and good luck finding something neat.

For homework on Tuesday, I want you to access your moodle account. Your login is firstname.lastname (eg. mark.iwaasa) and your password will be emailed to you (the account you used to create your blogger account).

Follow these steps.

Login hereclick on stirling

and select chem 20

Your enrol key is mrichem20
Once inside the class I want you to access the news forum and respond to my posting.



Lastly, you all need to comment to this blog posting below with regards to how the homework went.

Good Luck and see you on Wednesday!

the lap tops are freakin sweet!!!!!!!!! i just need to figure out how to use them completely haha

These laptops are awesome! I'm so glad we finally got them... woot! haha

Glad to have the new labtops....chemistry will be interesting this year!!!

I am glad we finally got our laptops. I am definitely learning alot about them now. Thank you for teaching us Mr. Iwaasa.

This is cool! WOOT! :)

I believe i am going to enjoy this class......maybe.

Well after a slow start the class has their laptops. You can expect some postings soon!

Well here we go! High school science at its finest! Congratulations for picking Chemistry, this stuff will change your world!