Organic Naming

In order to get better at naming and drawing organic compounds you have to practice. This is a link to an answer key for the problems that I handed out in class.

This is a link to a set of practice Regents type questions.

And this is an example of one of the many Internet available resources, if you just look for them.

All classes will have a quiz on Friday. 

It will cover the same material as the Wednesday quiz did.

Goodbye Nuclear, Hello Organics

We went over guidelines designed to help students maximize their lab report grades. Download this link.

Tuesday is a test on Nuclear Chemistry.

In lab classes today, students got a start on a homework assignment. Trends in Alkane Boiling Points has students graphing data and then answering questions pertaining to the information.

The lecture notes for the Organic Chemistry unit can be found here.

Nuclear End of Unit

We watched a video about Marie & Pierre Curie's groundbreaking work in the early 20th century. This link takes you to the video series it was a part of. The section on the Curies is in video #2 the second half.

Links:
Worksheet packet for Nuclear
Answer key for Nuclear Worksheet Packet.
Answer key for Regents Question pack.


The next unit is Organic Chemistry. This is the packet for notes that I passed out in class.

Radioactive Decay simulation

This is the data that is needed for the Radioactive Decay Simulation lab. If you are in my Day 2 lab this is what you will graph for the lab. Be sure to align the paper in landscape format and put the number of trials on the horizontal independent axis and the number of blocks/chips on the vertical/dependent axis. All other groups should add your data to these totals to graph correctly.

More Nuclear

I have edited Mark Rosengarten's notes down and added some problems to make a 10 page review packet for the nuclear unit. Click here to get the packet.

Nuclear Chemistry

Tests have been graded and handed back. We went over the test, question by question, in class.

We began the nuclear unit. The link for the notes for the Nuclear unit is here.

We currently have three labs scheduled for this unit:
Isotopic Pennies
Decay chain of Uranium
Half Lives

We will have a quiz on material from the nuclear unit on Wednesday.

First Unit Test Coming

Our first test will be this Thursday, March 30. The test will be on all the material that we have covered since I started on March 6th. This includes energy diagrams, equilibrium and vapor pressures; and includes information on Tables H & I. Links to notes and appropriate resources can be found on the blog entries for the past few weeks.

We started watching the video Atom: Clash of the Titans, in preparation for the upcoming unit on the nucleus. This can be viewed at home by following this link.

The link for the notes for the next unit, Nuclear, is here.