Monday, October 20, 2008
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.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
- Well here we are, a new unit and I'd love to get things started off right. Follow the instructions below.
- 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)
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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.
Friday, October 10, 2008
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 here
click 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.
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!