Wednesday, May 19, 2010

CHEM: Day 163 - Surprise!

Three years ago two of your fellow Marksmen, Alex Wang and Mark Kane, compiled quite a lengthy list of review information. Which I have attached here. Not all topics are covered, but this should get you well on your way.

Mark's review sheet is in chronological order for the class.

Alex's review sheet covers the topics in the order of the final review topic list I gave you a couple of weeks ago.

Remember - I will have your trimester grades by midday tomorrow.

Final exam review will be on Friday 052110 from 2PM - 5PM in the classroom.

See you later -

CS

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

CHEM: Day 100 - Homework

Homework due on Wednesday, Period 3; due Thursday, everyone else:

?s - pp 232-233: 52, 62, 63, 81, 82
       p 274: 93
       M p 222: 3-6

Lab on Wednesday and Thursday: Experiment 21. Read over this (pp 109-110) before you come to lab.

DONE.

CHEM: Day 99 - Homework

More catchup!

HW due for Tuesday, Periods 3/4/8; due Wednesday, Period 1:

1) Read pp 240-244
2) Atom-Pushing worksheet

Done again!

CHEM: Day 98 - Homework

Catchup post!

Homework given out on Friday, due Monday:

Radioactivity Worksheet II - with the isotope tables attached. Find the average atomic mass of selenium and lead, decay predictions/equations, and problems from the Merrill book.

Plus - read text pp 218-227

Done.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

CHEM: Day 97 - Homework

For tomorrow, all periods:

Questions due - p 894-895: 55-58, 69-71, 80

Nice and short. More work over the weekend, though.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

CHEM: Day 95 - Homework

For tomorrow, Periods 4 and 8 have no homework due. (Except for you careless readers in 8 - *sigh*)

Period 1: See yesterday's post for your homework.

Period 3: 1) Read pp 870-874
               2) ?s - Radioactivity Worksheet I + p 894: 40, 41, 46, 48, 51

That should do it.

Monday, February 1, 2010

CHEM: Day 94 - Homework

Well, this pretty much fell off the radar for the month of January. I failed.

Time to make this useful again.

Homework due for Tuesday, Periods 3, 4, and 8/Wednesday, Period 1:

1) Read pp 860 - 869
2) ?s - p 894: 35 - 37, 42, 45

For lab: Period 1 - Read the following links, in order:

Nuclear fission - Read the Introduction, Section 1.5 (chain reaction), and History sections
Nuclear fusion - Read the Introduction and the Overview
Nuclear weapons - Read the whole page. If you like, you can click through the links on the right of the page.

NB: You will not understand everything on these pages, especially if you read outside the indicated sections. You won't understand every term in the sections either, but you will be able to understand most of them. You will gain sufficient background from the reading for tomorrow's exercise.

(Example: Most energies on these pages are given in a unit we don't use in first-year chemistry, the electron-Volt or eV, because this is the standard unit for talking about the energies involved in the nucleus and the motion of subatomic particles. 1 eV = 1.60 x 10^(-19) J. You don't need to know the value of an eV in order to understand the article, but it will probably bother you a little. Just read over it.)

That should do it.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

CHEM: Day 78 - Homework

You all received a copy of the worksheet for your next class via e-mail. Go print it up.

For your next lecture:
1) Read pp 150-154 in the book
2) Read pp 24-27 in the packet
3) Complete Light Worksheet IV in your duplicate book

For lab (periods 4/8): Read Experiment 16

BOOM goes the dynamite!

Monday, January 4, 2010

Link of the day

I so want to see this.

Star Blazers was one of the reasons I ran home from school everyday. Had to, so I could catch the show. No TiVo back then.

Star Blazers was the Americanized version of "Space Battleship: Yamato." (You can always count on anime titles to be concrete statements of the basic plot device.) The English script stuck somewhat closely to the original: The Earth has been under constant bombardment from space by conquering aliens. To fight back, and to go to a particular planet to obtain the machinery to restore the Earth's ecology, humans have secretly rebuilt the largest Japanese battleship of World War II, the Yamato, into a spaceship. The Yamato has one year to reach the planet Iscandar and return to Earth, with the bad-guy Gamelons fighting them every step of the way.

More than faintly ridiculous. But it was all kinds of fun.

And it had the best opening theme ever. Search for it - you'll find it.

CHEM: Day 77 - Homework

Here we go again...

Homework for Tuesday/your next lecture:

1) Read pp 144 - 149
2) Read packet pp 11 - 23
3) Light Worksheet III - do in duplicate book

Long-term assignment: Blue Page due Monday 011110 (25 pts)

No Coffice Hours this week.

For lab (Period 1): Read Exp 16 - Glassworking. Don't get burned!

Exams: Your next exam has been moved back to next Friday, 011510.

That should keep you busy.