Monday, May 07, 2007

AP CHEMISTRY EXAM

EXAM IS ON TUESDAY MAY 15, 2007

On May 8, 2007 you will recieve a pretest. You are to use your textbooks and all resources you have to work out problems. Feel free to ask questions. I will collect them on May 15, 2007 as you enter to take exam.

Monday, April 23, 2007

4/23/2007

Work on Topics 10 and 11.

Friday, April 13, 2007

4/13/2007

Hi all,
Please continue your review. Work on Topics 6,7 and 8 in you review books.

Have a great weekend

Thursday, April 05, 2007

4/5/2007

Great job today guys and gals.
Work on topics 4 and 5. We will finish up Topic 3 next class.

Happy Easter.

Here is a link to AP Exam Practice Tests. Please look some up and be preparing yourself.

http://www.geocities.com/crazytwo2000/
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/prep_free.html

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

4/3/2007

Hi class,
Remember: we are going to begin AP test preperation. We covered topic 1-3 in class, and you were asked to do the self test for topics 2 and 3. I asked you to not only answer the question, but write down the stratgy you used to answer the question. So if you eleimnated one or two possible answer, explain why. Then explain the process you used to come up with the correct answer. You have the answers to all the question, use them as a guidline. You are being assessed on your solving strategy.
Next class we will be going over topics 4-6.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Spring Break

You all recieved your spring break assignment packet: Chapter 10 and 11 and worksheets.

Chapter 8 and 9 take home test due back on 4/2 by noon.

Be ready to discuss chapter 10 and 11 and take tests.

Friday, March 09, 2007

3/9/2007

Problems 13, 15,17, 19, 25
in addition to problems 65, 69

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

3/7/2007

Chapter 8 homework
45 (d-f), 49, 50, 58, 61, 63, 65, 69 (for part b, use Appendix C)

Monday, March 05, 2007

3/5/2006

Only homework is to do worksheets. Juniors, if you are done, you have no homework. We will finish Chapter 8 next class, and maybe start into Chapter 9 if we have time. It is my plan to have a test before the srping break.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

2/13/2007

Homework Chapter 7 #9,,1,13,14,20,23,29,30,33,34

Also quick correction: All elements in an isoelectronic have the same number of electrons

Example: Na +1, Mg 2+ and Al 3+ all have 10 electons, so they are isoelctronic.

Monday, February 05, 2007

2/5/2007

Your homework is to study for the chapter 6 quiz on Wednesday. Make sure you can write electron configurations, work with quantum numbers, and deteremine the number of unpaired electrons given the configuration. Be able to identify an element from its configuration.

Friday, January 19, 2007

1/19/2007

Your only homework is to prepare for your in-class exam on Tuesday 1/23/07.
The lab you did today is due on Monday 1/29/2007.
Have a good weekend.

Friday, January 12, 2007

1/12/2007 Period 1

Hi guys,
In class today we had no daily check, and instead spent the time going over the homework that was due today.

In class we disscussed: Hess's Law. This law is used to find the change in enthalpy for a reaction when there exists no direct path for accomplishing the reaction. Enthalpy is a state function meaning the change in enthalpy is independent of the path. We also talked a bit about calorimetry.

Homework: 63,65,69,73 Dealing with Heats of formation. We will get ready for a lab the following class and a test review, then a test.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Class on 1/10/2007

Hi Guys,
Forgive me for not posting for awhie. More changes. In addtion to the homework assignment, I will begin posting a brief posting of what we did in class today.

Daily Check: You were asked to define exothermic, endothermic, system, surrondings, and heat.

Today in class we discussed:
State Functions: Here is a definition-In thermodynamics, a state function, or state quantity, is a property of a system that depends only on the current state of the system, not on the way in which the system got to that state. A state function describes the equilibrium state of a system. For example, internal energy, enthalpy and entropy are state quantities because they describe quantitatively an equilibrium state of thermodynamic systems. At the same time, mechanical work and heat are process quantities because they describe quantitatively the transition between equilibrium states of thermodynamic systems.
Change in Enthalpy: Enthalpy deals with the change in energy of a system through the release of heat. You learned how to calculate how to enthalpy from amounts of chemicals in the system.

Homework:
Calorimetry: 39, 47, 49, 51, 55, 59, 61, 63

See you all later.