Useful Stoich Links

Khan Academy

Crash Course

A Different Way to Think About Stoich

Random Dude Named Ben Helpin' us Out

Test Prep

Well, I think that I might be able to kind of do ok on the test tomorrow. Haha, actually with all of the studying that I have bee doing, I think I will actually do pretty good. However, who knows.  Right now I am taking a break from the test prep to write posts. Then I will keep going until I am sure that I know it. Good luck to the rest of you and I wish you restful and log sleep.

More Copper-L Lab

After a weekend of doing cool  reaction stuff, this is what our copper looked like after we pulled it out. Needless to say, it was gross. I personally thought that this was one of the grossest labs I have ever done. maybe coming a close second to the lab in bio last year with liver(walking into a class with your teacher casually blending up liver isn't really a great start to your day). It was still very cool to see the reaction happen before our eyes and to be able to write out the chemical reaction the do the chemical reaction.

It looked kind of like the liver... *sigh*

Well labs are cool, and making things out of things is cool.

Have a nice day

Stiochio-me-try

In theory this isn't that difficult. You do the same set up and application every time, yet somehow it is very difficult. The questions are not worded the same way each time and there are tricks to learn how to see through. Oh boy, this will not be fun. I enjoy the conversions but I don't enjoy the stressful tests. Good luck to all.

Copper-L Lab

Today we did a lab reacted Iron and Copper(II) Chloride to create solid Copper. It was very cool and interesting to watch. The reaction happened quicker than I expected and was really easy to set up and do successfully. The pre lab was stoichiometry where we had to calculate the max theoretical amount given mass.

Beginning:

After a While:

Measurement After the Test

Well after the test. I did not do too bad. Of course I could have done better. I definitely need to buckle down for the rest of the semester and do my best. I can do it. It will just take a lot of work and responsibility. Well, good luck to the rest of you in future tests.

Post Test

Wow. It actually wasn't that bad. I studied furiously all night and during the day before. I felt good about a lot of the questions, but a few were definitely sketchy. I am very happy that it's almost the end of the year. Phew I'm glad it's all through.

El Noche de Estudiando

The night of Studying. I find that I understand a lot of the topics we have covered, and because of the labs we have done the rules have been memorized in my mind because I have used them over and over again. I'm anxious and nervous for the test and think I will do well. I have used crash course and bozeman science to help understand the concepts from a different perspective and it helps.
crash course

bozeman

Good Luck!!

Activity Series lab

I quite enjoyed this lab. All of the reactions seemed to be a surprise on whether they would react or not and what the reaction would look like. One changed from a light blue color to a dark blue among bubbles and fizzing. Another one broke apart and looked like dirt as soon as the two substances touched each other. Others turned black, and some did very small things like just bubbling. Overall it was pretty cool. My partner and I only had 11 react, unlike others who had up to 14. Writing the follow up work definitely gave me a better understanding of the types of reactions we were working with and will definitely help me on the test.

OH Happy Days

Link

Mrs. Frankenberg being the wonderful person she is, postponed the ginormous lecture until monday, which took away almost all of the stress and homework I would have had. I am so very thankful, but still I figured with the extra time that preparing for the lecture would be a good idea. I watched a video from bozeman science that was very helpful. Link to it Here. It doesn't seem to difficult, but we will see what other things we have in store from our teacher. I hope all of you have a good Thanksgiving and enjoyed some good food.

Acid-Base Reactions

Looking on my notes I find myself surprised that the driving force of of acid-base reactions is the production of water, also that acids and bases together form water. I was also very amazed to find that all reactions of strong acids and strong bases can be consolidated down to H+(aq) + OH-(aq)

-> H2O.  I think that redox reactions will be interesting to learn and probably a bit complicated. I guess we will see. Happy thanksgiving to all.

Useful link to help with acid-base reactions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANi709MYnWg

https://sciencebob.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/DSC_0034.jpg

Irrelevant 2

Hello those who may slightly be interested in things other than the infinitely complicated chemistry. Well again I will share some music choices that i have been playing over and over again. Imagine Dragons is a popular bad well known for its popular songs "Radioactive" and "Demons" which I have loved for a long time. However, there are a few factors about this bad that absolutely make them stand out from others of its genre and popularity level. The albums that hold the two popular songs is also a gold mine of songs that are the same quality level or higher. It is honestly an album that I love every single song and can listen to it on repeat and not skip a song. My favorite song even past "Radioactive" is "Round and Round" because the song starts as a layered soft sound but moves into a powerful and poetic song that is unique and vibrant. I mean, they have a 9 minute song that keeps me entertained with every second. wow I ranted... awkward... Well even though this is chem I love trying new music so anyone who reads this should tell me their favorite music so i can share in the beauty. Even Brocks metal I will listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9zTi0Ctspk

Link to "Round and Round"

Solubility Rules Lab

I very much liked this lab. I ended up doing the whole lab by myself which initially sounded like a hefty task considering all of the reactions but(as you can see in the picture), I had a pretty organized set up going that led to me finishing early and efficiently. I enjoyed the bright and surprising colors that occurred from the reactions, and was a little scared of the puke looking colors that one or two produced. The calculations, though long, most definitely helped my memorize the solubility rules, and as Frank said, they have become second nature and I quite enjoy that fact. Have a well day fellow chem nerds.

Irrelevant

why not have some other stuff on here and make this a little bit more bearable. Well hello is you are cool enough to click on irrelevant things. I will share small things about myself because why not. My name is Sophie, but I sometimes go by SJ.. not much at school so no worries if you have never ever heard that before. I listen to alot of different types of music, and i listen to music alot. i prefer some light alternative as my go to. Mostly Hozier (yes the take me to church guy has more music... and it is SPECTACULAR), Fall Out Boy, Panic at the disco, and imagine dragons. I also enjoy classic rock(thanks mom and dad) and really like to jam to edm and house music with my friends on car rides. Well that turned into a lot of words. I am going to stop now. Have a wonderful day.

A testament to Hozier's Masterfulness

Hozier covers Sam Smiths, Lay Me Down

Useful links

First three are Khan Academy(why yes I am a nerd) and I have found this site is extremely helpful

Empirical formula from mass composition
Empirical, molecular, and structural formulas
Molecular weight percentages

This next one I found online...obviously, but it's kind've a rundown of chem in general with a lot of chemical composition that is helpful

CLICK HITHER

Another Good review

CLICK HITHER AGAIN
Same website more review

GUESS WHAT...CLICK HERE


Good luck.

Test Prep

Guys it pretty late right now and reading some stuff in a group chat is causing me to get out of my extremely comfortable bed, most likely wake up the sleeping ones in my house, and print out a study guide because I won't have time in the morning. Oh the things we do for chem... guys I really need my sleep..I do not thrive well off of little sleep, and I sleep alot. So this is not well. I hope you all get more sleep than I, and that we do well on the chem test.

Hydrate Lab

We were cool and got to use a small fan .

The first lab that we have done this week was the hydrate lab. It was about using the anhydrous compound formula to determine the formula for the hydrate. The lab involved taking Copper Sulfate and driving the water out of it. then using the data from measuring the mass of the substance before and after the heating to determine the amount of water in the initial mass. I enjoyed the lab and found that it helped me establish a higher understanding of the equations we are focusing on lately.

Using Bunsen burners as flame throwers is always a joyous occasion

Preparing for Lab

As the Pre lab quiz approaches I am implementing a strategy that has always helped in memorizing math... Doing the type of problems we know will be on the quiz over and over again. The half sheet we received and the pre lab questions will be my gateway to the lab. Hopefully I actually succeed unlike the aspirin lab. We will see my fellow chem people. I wish god focus on us all.

The Mole and Other Neat Adventures

Our latest lectures have been talking about the mole, molar mass, and hydrated compounds. All involve more math than we have normally done and (as Mrs. Frankenberg warned) combines all that we have learned so far in our class. Going all the way back to nomenclature from our first unit. Personally I like what we are doing. The straightforwardness of the math and equations is comforting. Also, the practical use of sig figs is helping me to fully understand the uses of the outlandish rounding system. I like the road map(and because the internet is really well I found a picture of the road map online and will share it with you)  and how easy it is to remember. My system for memorizing which unit goes on the bottom or top is when you are traveling away from the mole you numbers like molar mass, or 6.02x10^23 goes on top, and when you are going towards the mole those go on the bottom. Hope this helps. Have a blessed weekend and enjoy our days away from our large building.

Pre-Test

Welp. I wonder what we are getting ourselves into this time. It was a very confusing pretest with questions that looked like they could be familiar. I am very sure I did very bad on it, because I didn't even try. I use a lot of brain power in my classes and i knew that i had two tests that day so I did not even try. I hope that I understand the subject matter before the next test because this chapter seems like it will be a new challenge. Have a wonderful wednesday.

pre test sadness

Measurement Test Prep

Tomorrow is the big day in Pre-AP Chem for the measurement unit. We will test and figure out how much about the nonsensical sig figs and lengthy conversions along with a few other passing lessons that we know. It doesn't appear to be too challenging but it seems to be very easy to make a mistake that could cost you a few points. Surprisingly, I understand the rules for which numbers are significant, and I quite enjoy the conversion problems now that I understand them. It is only the application under stress that I must overcome. Only time will tell how it turns out.

By the way, today is national I love you day.... I love you

Mole Day Party

Today was a great relief. It was national mole day, so all of our classes got to have a mole day party in which we shared our animal creations and had food and fellowship. It was fun and was a great break to a stressful week. The food was extremely unhealthy and wonderful. I had a lot of fun and enjoyed many laughs.

Aspirin Lab

Well, I tried. I would have gotten the question right if there wasn't such a time crunch to the quiz. I knew the questions, but outlining the lab in 30 seconds just doesn't happen. So no one in the second group from my class passed the quiz, but we will have data from the first group which is very helpful. I am disappointed that I will not be doing the lab, because it sounds really intriguing and I have heard many good things about it, but hey there will be more labs in the future and I will be ready next time. Blessings to you all and I wish you good rest.

As I Prepare

Tomorrow, my friends, is the second shift for the aspirin lab. Today, is the day that I study a lab. My partner and I,  did this pretty cool thing where we highlighted our assigned duties(hehe duty) and used that to help us study in class and get ready for the pre lab question. I'm a little nervous for it, but believe that I am well prepared. Here is a photo of me and my new best friend the lab.

Wish me luck with studying and getting ready and I shall now return the favor by wishing you a night of focus and productivity... also I hope you get some sleep.

Archeology Lab Day 2

Wow, I am actually surprised I had enough brainpower for the lab today. For some reason i was just exhausted and it took me a little longer than it normally would to figure out who the missing girl was. I finally cracked the code and punched in the numbers and figured it out, and I really liked how it was a mystery we must figure out. I usually am really interested at those and enjoy the feeling of figuring something out after hard work. I was just very tired today and wanted to nap on the floor, so ya. I enjoyed it. Have a wonderful wednesday tomorrow everyone and may we all get wonderful sleep.

Collecting data for the "Dating-radioactive style" lab

Oh my goodness. It took a very long time. I acquired the help of my other to help sort and count, because i had a lot of homework to do and I didn't want the counting to take all night. However, it was interesting to see the outcome of the squares and on one of our half lives the amount that decayed was exactly half of the half life before it. I felt it tedious, but that it helped students gain the concept of half life, how hard work gains character, and some practice for our counting skills. Good night my fellow students and I hope you all sleep well.

Radioactive Decay Lesson

Today was our lecture on radioactive decay, which included alpha, beta, and gamma. I liked the lesson and thought it was easy to understand and simple once you got the hang of it. I liked the very last review slide she gave us that showed us all the information we needed in one place. This makes it easy to go back over when practicing and getting the lesson down quickly.

I wish the reader of this post a wonderful week and that one of your problems becomes solved.

Beanium Lab Reflection

This week we did a lab that helped us prepare for our quiz on wednesday. In the lab there was a new element discovered and it was up to the students of our chemistry classes to find out some information on said element. At the lab stations we were pick which station we wanted to be at. Our group luckily chose a station with a lower amount of the element, only 44 beaniums total. While some I knew chose a station with almost 200 in it. I was happy with the station chose and the outcome of the lab, for it greatly helped me understand the new lesson we had learned.

I will conclude this post with the creepy smile of our new found element. Let it bring you joy and slight unease.

Pre-Test Laughs

Honestly, I was handed the test, read the first question, and laughed out loud because I knew nothing. It was just comical how the symbols looked like a foreign language that you have looked at before but have never been taught nor tried to comprehend before. I knew a small amount about a few questions, but overall very little. However, it seems interesting and im excited to learn it.
Good luck to the rest of you.

Reflection of Frontier Chemistry Project

I thought it was one of the most interesting projects that I have ever done. I definitely found it to be relevant and something that I was interested in. however, it was the most work I have ever done on a project, that came out with a total of 17-18 hours of research all together.... It was hard, but came with a huge relief when I finished. When I did finish it was a weird feeling of happiness and disbelief that a project so big could be finished so quickly and with such an anti-climactic ending.

Things I learned in Nomeclature

I learned different ways of naming compounds. I thought it was interesting and a pretty simple concept to grasp. I liked learning it and thought it was interesting. I thought learning the polyatomic ions was stressful yet successful.

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