Sunday, November 29, 2015

OH Happy Days




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:

Monday, November 23, 2015

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.


Monday, November 16, 2015

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.


Sunday, November 15, 2015

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.



Friday, November 13, 2015

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




Sunday, November 8, 2015

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.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

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