Tuesday, February 28, 2006

0228

B: started with molality of sat solution of KNO3 as do now.
do the supersaturated demo.
Question 68 on the winter take home has no correct answer...
Many questions are essentially the same....

Monday, February 27, 2006

0227

back to work...i.c. day went well esp. with the new, innovative, outdoor-snow method...no clean up!
did weak base eq. with AP...will return with more of that and then do polyprotics and possibly acid strength predictions before the test.
this test WILL be timed because it is one of the shortest ones.
do lab folders this week and assign 2 honors lab writeups after the test this week.
in Honors: explain the difference between dilute and concentrated as it relates to saturated solutions of soluble and insoluble salts.
-got up to the combined gas laws in each class (D got through Boyle's Law).
AP-did one diprotic acid and almost all of one triprotic acid problem; also did a pKa to conj base salt problem and vice versa.

Thursday, February 16, 2006

0215

got to % yield and lim reactants in B and D but not yet in E...that's for tomorrow, ice cream day.
started acid eq problems today forwards and backwards...forgot to put that H+ is not really zero initially in the ICE table.

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

0214

VDAY-
got to sol. curves with B.
got to middle of sol factors with D and E.
(buy lab stuff tomorrow night for Thurs and remind about blend ins) Use snow or ice cubes!
still have to do a molality to molar mass problem with D and E. and lim reactant and % yield.
AP- finished Bronsted conjugates and simple pH calcs...just introed weak acid eq calcs
forgot all about vanthoff eq..may let that go...till thermo....

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Honors

don't forget to do a quick demo of limiting reactant and % yield for HOnors...SAT II.
then back to molality.
AP- tell about dentist question....hypochorite + peroxide....

Friday, February 10, 2006

0209

meetings went well but lost another...sadder!
get sig figs completely CLEAR BEFORE any math of chem test...expectations modelled always....
finish collig and get gas laws done by break....give quiz before break and ICE cream

AP: do many Acid Base before weekend and worry about van't hoff eq on Monday!
MORE pauses for questions to keep attention...many more...every second...

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

0208

got the le chat back on track today with a lengthy online explanation...class did well...
as opposed to H many of whom CANNOT be studying/practicing....using ONE sig fig in the FIRST step of a calculation...unbelievable... Molarity problem..same old BS....gas density...completely forgotten...

0207

blew le chat today by not following the KISS rule!

for tomorrow.

inc P (or dec V) is like inc conc of gases, so there is an increase in collision frequency and therefore a greater forward and reverse reaction rate (due to the greater number of molecules available for collision per unit of volume = inc concentration); an inc in conc of all gases on the side with MORE molecules causes a disproportionately greater inc in reaction rate so there is a net shift toward the side with fewer molecules as the new equilibrium is reached.
dec P (or inc V) is akin to dec conc of gases so there is an decrease in collision frequency and therefore a decreased forward and reverse reaction rate due to the lower number of molecules available for collision per unit of volume = dec concentration); so, a dec in conc of all molecules on the side with more molecules causes a disproportionately greater decrease in reaction rate from those molecules; thus, there is a NET shift towards the side with more molecules as the new equilibrium is reached.

inc T speeds up both forward and reverse reaction rates because there is increased collision frequency and a greater fraction of effective collisions (due to the higher T = higher avg. KE of the molecules in the system) but there will be a disproportionately larger increase in the NET "energy consuming", endothermic, direction.
dec T slows down forward and reverse reaction rates because there is decreased collision frequency and a decreased fraction of effective collisions due to the lower T = lower avg. KE of the molecules in the system) but there is disproportionately greater decrease in the endothermic direction so that there is a net shift to the EXOTHERMIC direction.

Friday, February 03, 2006

0206

tell the AP that WRITING the equation setup is WAY more important than the number crunching!
0206:
AP- did two additional (not in printed notes) Keq ICE problems involving decomposing solids to gases (CaCO3 and then, urea)...must copy/scan those notes from LS notes.

Honors: Started Molarity today after completing regular stoich...test on Wed.

2122

finally got into stoich the past two days and got up to mass mass.

AP started EQ yesterday so we have to motor on that through the weekend. Horrifyingly unprepped for the Kinetics exam...many careless and cheap errors and lack of knowing graphs of equations....get equations strictly memorized with mnemonics next time!
get that gas lab assigned too.