Several TA's have indicated some students have used terms like corrosive, or reacts with skin as an example of a chemical property in PS1.1. While reacting with skin is an example of a chemical property I expect something more specific. For a chemical property I want the reaction with another pure substance (element or compound) and what the new product formed will be. I will not count 'corrosive', 'reacts with skin' or other responses of that nature for credit on the exam (if I asked a question like that).
For information to help solve Problem 2.1 try using the Merck Index which is available in my office and in the Library. I've placed the Library's copy on Reserve. It should be available to checkout for no more than 2-hours beginning late Saturday or early Sunday. The Merck Index provides useful information arranged alphabetically by compound name. Each compound listing has information like physical properties, solubility and reactivity. Some of the information provided for each substance uses abbreviations. Check the front of the Index for a listing of the abbreviations.
I just talked with Barbara Miller in the Library and she indicates that the Internet computers in the Library should have the Shockwave plugin so that you will be able to run the animations which I run in class. However, students can not print from these computers. The PETE computers do not have the plugin for the animations. The best time to use the Library's Internet computers is before 10 a.m. or after 11 p.m.
Remember the 12:30 p.m. section will NOT meet on Friday, August 28th. The 8:30 a.m. section WILL meet on Friday.
Several TA's and I were discussing one of the questions on PS1 which asked whether dry ice is a homogeneous or heterogeneous mixture or a pure substance. Confusion seemed to arise if one thought of dry ice as a solid and a gas. Dry ice is a pure substance in two phases, it is not a heterogeneous mixture in two phases. A mixture (two or more components) in two phases is a heterogeneous mixture. Dry ice is a single substance.
The comment from the student in class on Wednesday about snow, that it forms around a dust/dirt particle makes it a heterogeneous mixture. Determining whether a particular substance is a solution, heterogeneous mixture or a pure substance can sometimes be very confusing. When you provide an answer it would be worthwhile explaining your reasoning.
Problem Set #2 is ready. Help yourself. It will be available from me in class Friday if you do not have a copy yet.
Be sure to purchase your laboratory manual this week!
Remember laboratories are meeting this week. If you missed laboratory last week you will need to view the safety videotape this week. This week is Check-in...do not lose your locker key!
I've got our second exam date changed to Wednesday, October 7, 1998 at 5:30 p.m. Please make a note of this.
Print your own copy of the CHEM 1215 Syllabus and General Information.
Do you have a copy of the latest Problem Set? Get one while they last!
Need a periodic table link? Check this one out. Oh...BTW please memorize the spelling of the first twenty elements in the periodic table, plus some of the common elements with atomic numbers greater than 20.
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Problem Sets
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Problem Set #1 (Due Wednesday, August 26, 1998)
Exams
Here are sample exams from a previous CHEM 1215 I taught.
- Exam I
- Exam II
- Exam III