CHEM 1450 Daily Outline
email Desrochers email Elian Mondragon
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Thu Aug 27
Quiz #1
(s) (l) (g) quiz
Dalton's laws
P E N some slides from today's lecture
Bring a copy of AR Chemistry HW: Toxic Shot to class Due Tue Sep 1 in lecture
WORK Ch 1 as assigned on the syllabus
READ Ch 1
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Wed Aug 26
Measurements lab (available as downloads from this www site)
Come prepared
Prelab completed on a SEPARATE piece of paper, ready to hand in first thing.
Googles in hand
Long pants, socks, closed toed shoes
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Scientific notation using a generic scientific calculator
Scientific notation using a TI-84 calculator
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Tue Aug 25
Two practice problems Don't look at the answers until you have attempted these problems.
1. pages covering table answer
2. mass of one piece of paper answer
T units
Density VIR #1 T dep video (demo)
Using density
WORK the prelab for Wed's lab
WORK Ch E remaining as assigned on the syllabus
READ ahead Ch 1 for Thu
COMPLETE survey of preferred times for study sessions Times are emerging. If you want any say, participate!
Plan ahead for Quiz #1 on Thu by working assigned HW.
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Observations after ~ 5 days that will impact your success in this class come December
most have reviewed the syllabus (51/58 so far) Be sure you are looking at the very latest version of the syllabus.
less than half have reviewed my introductory video, perhaps thinking "All my other profs are like this, so Desrochers will be too."
All of us are different. Do not regret in December not taking the advice I mentioned in that video now in August.some have asked my about working HW Q's
less than a third have participated in the office hour/study session survey. You paid for this time. Participate.
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Mon Aug 24 (5 pm) OR Tue Aug 25 (6 pm)
Supplemental Instruction in MAN 101
Read the section in the syllabus re. this useful resource.
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Office of student success. Your tuition paying for this great advice and help.
https://uca.edu/studentsuccess/
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Chemical & Engineering News (C&ENews) Available to you online through the UCA library link here
I get lots of our general interest chemistry stories from this weekly publication.
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Thu Aug 20 Each day you will find a list of topics to be discussed in lecture including some slides we will use that day.
EAA, Safezone (app) WATCH Desrochers going over the syllabus and website (8:57)
units and prefixes (must know kilo-, centi-, milli-, others given) Hg/Al video from today's lecture
intuition for common units figures on unit intuition more figures from lecture
English to metric always given (you will get a copy of a table like this all the time)
problem solving approaches
TO DO before our next class period
Read: Ch E Work Ch E: 24-41 as assigned on the syllabus
TO DO now
WATCH this introductory video (13:49) about me and my expectations of you
COMPLETE survey of preferred times for study sessions
CLICK all over my website and BrSp page so you know locations of ALL course resources.
SEND questions, concerns about the class, the book, my website, etc. to Desrochers