http://chemberger.wordpress.com Of Mice and Men... or Moles and Einstein Fri, 30 May 2008 21:34:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Gunnar James Berger was born Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 1:16 AM. He is 6 lbs. 11 ozs. and 21 inches long. We are doing fine and feeling better each hour. http://chemberger.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/gunnar-james-berger/ Seniors, if you would like to to know your exemption status, the names of those exempt according to grades earned in my class has been submitted to the office for an attendance check.  If you just can't wait to find out from them, send email to bergerj@delphi.k12.in.us with the subject ... http://chemberger.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/end-of-the-year-info/ So Torie commented on another post but I thought this deserved its own post.  Here is what she said: I am confused on the lab with the Mg and HCl. I got all of the calculations except for the ln [H3O]+. I dont know how to figure that out… and then the part ... http://chemberger.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/ap-chem-lab-due-monday-kinetics/ Use the following websites to “train” for Friday's Quest.  http://library.thinkquest.org/10429/high/nomen/nomen.htm - review with quiz at end http://chemistrygeek.com/rainbow/launch.htm - Writing and Naming Compounds  http://chemberger.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/chemical-nomenclature-practice/ Helpful websites: Tutorial from AUS-e-TUTE ChemED from Purdue Georgia Southern's website with pictures from class and other tutorials for VSEPR and polarity (good for quest review) http://chemberger.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/intermolecular-forces/ Basically, you want to know how the properties of gases affect each other, what makes gases special from other phases of matter, the differences of the ideal gases and real gases, how to use ALL your equations and what the variables stand for (the appropriate R values for each), how ... http://chemberger.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/ap-chem-chapter-5-test-gas-laws/ So as most of my students know, I am going to have a baby, supposedly in May.  If you would like to have some fun, you can visit expectnet.com and participate in our little prediction game.  For the game name so you can log in, just ask me at school ... http://chemberger.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/very-not-related-to-class/ Remember that significant digits are important because they help to reflect the precision of the instruments used to make the measurements involved in a calculation.  I have posted about this before with some websites you can use to help you practice.  The second website is actually quite good and has ... http://chemberger.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/significant-digits-reminder/ If you are working on your Chapter 5 Independent Study, please post questions to this topic.  Kylee asked the following: I started on the problems and i understand the pressure stuff in the first section but i don't understand the unit stuff for problems 27 and 29. Its the exact same ... http://chemberger.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/ap-chemistry-chapter-5-help/ I have had a few students ask for the finals schedule. It is on my computer at school but I will try to post here what I can remember. The ones with ??? are the ones I am really not sure of, but the rest I can remember ... http://chemberger.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/finals-schedule/