CHEM 1450 Daily Outline
email Desrochers links to lab videos
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Fri Aug 30
How Venus may have lost its water to space.
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Wed Aug 28, Thu Aug 29 LAB = Measurements and Density (available on the lab downloads page)
To work in lab you must have completed the online safety agreement
Come prepared: shoes, pants, goggles as per safety agreement (goggles can be purchase from UCA Student ACS, see flyer above)
Come with your prelabs completed (both measurements and density) and ready to hand in first thing.
Prelabs must be on separate sheets of paper, not printed on the back of anything.
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Wed Aug 28
Density VIR #1 T dep video (demo)
Using density
Working lots of Ch E style questions in lecture today.
Bring a copy of AR Chemistry HW: Toxic Shot to class This is worth points and will be due in one week Sep 6.
Quiz #1 on Fri
READ ahead Ch 1 for Fri
WORK all remaining Ch E as assigned on the syllabus.
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Scientific notation using a generic scientific calculator
Scientific notation using a TI-84 calculator
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Mon Aug 26
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)
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
intuition for common units figures on unit intuition
T units
TO DO after lecture
WORK the prelab for Wed/Thu lab
WORK Ch E 2,4,15-18, 43-48, 62-74 as assigned on the syllabus
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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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Start of term survey: worth 1% of your overall course grade if completed on time (TBA)
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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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Fri Aug 23 Each day you will find a list of topics to be discussed in lecture including some slides we will use that day.
EAA, Safe at UCA WATCH Desrochers going over the syllabus and website
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 Mon Aug 28 (our next class period) Read: Ch E Work Ch E: 24-41 as assigned on the syllabus
TO DO by Sat Aug 26 (then enjoy your weekend)
WATCH this introductory video (in preparation) about me and our class
COMPLETE survey of preferred times for study sessions (soon to establish study session days and times)
CLICK all over my website and the BB page so you know the location of ALL course resources.
SEND questions, concerns about the class, the book, my website, etc. to Desrochers