12/21 Chemistry Update and Homework due 1/4

Hi folks,

I hope everyone had a great holiday season and have a great New Year!

Last week we spent a lot of time going over the problems in the homework and working on how to solve these heat capacity problems.  They are quite tricky but the good news is that this is the hardest math we'll be doing all year.

Homework for next week is to redo the homework from last week.  You won't have to turn this in but take the time to redo several of the problems you did for homework.  Also, take a good look at that ice melting in water problem we did in class.  These problems and more like it will appear on your next quiz, so it would behoove you to be very comfortable with them.  

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12/14 Chemistry update and Homework due 12/21

Hi folks,

Last week we spent the entire time going through the concept of heat capacity, specific heat and the mathematics behind it.  We've still got a bit of work to do on that and we'll continue this week.

In order to practice some of the math, your assignment for this week is to go back to the chapter uploaded for you last week, reread it and do the following problems.  

2.4 and 2.5 on page 52

2.6 and 2.7 on page 55

2.8 on page 61

This material will be heavily quizzed so really try to get a good feeling for it.  

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12/7 Chemistry Update and homework due 12/14

Hi folks,

Sorry it took me so long to get this to you.  It took me forever to scan and upload the enclosed homework.

Last week we did a lab where we used the concept of heat capacity and a calorimeter to determine the heat capacity of a metal.  It was a fairly complicated lab and the students had to follow directions and use equations rather intensely in order to complete the lab.

Homework this week is to read the .pdf document I've uploaded to this site. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tttmr8rkgoemg4f/EZ6Cl8IS1u

It's a chapter from the book Exploring Creation With Chemistry and does a very nice job explaining the concepts we've been working with the past couple of weeks.  Feel free to look at some of the problems but we'll be focusing on the math this week.

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