Post Electronic Structure Test

The Electronic Structure Test... It is a step down from last unit so I was hoping for a somewhat easier test in comparison. The test was 50 questions which is a little overwhelming because we don't have the longest time in the world to finish the test. I thought it was a very detailed test that could easily trick you. A lot of the units could've thrown you off and a lot of the little wording about shells and structure too. All in all I am hoping for a decent grade, even if I do miss a few simple ones, there was room for error. On to the next unit!

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Test Study Links

Some links that helped me study:

Wavelength Review 
Energy of a Wavelength
Quantum Structure
Electron and Configuration and Location
Periodic Trends
Electron Affinity

Quiz Results

I received the results and I was pleased! I use my quiz results to help me determine how much I know about the chapter. This means I will hopefully do well on the test because we only added one more lesson to the chapter after the quiz. All is well in the chem world, we are continuing to grind to the end.

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Spec 20 Lab

This lab was a very tedious lab. We had to measure the amount of light passing through a certain solution in a very expensive machine. The machine was able to tell us the amount of light being absorbed into the solution and the light passing through. I have not written the lab report and I will get back to you with results in the end.

The very expensive machine

Post Electronic Structure Quiz

Going into the quiz I felt pretty good. I did all of the practice quizzes and felt comfortable about the real quiz that was awaiting us on Friday. Going into it knowing it was 35 questions felt good. It allows a little room for error if there are a couple tricky ones. The actual quiz was somewhat tricky. The questions seemed to be very easy, except there was a lot of detail that you needed to pay attention too because it could've easily tricked you. All in all, I thought the quiz was okay. Hopefully the score reflects my thoughts.

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Lessons on Electronic Structure

The first couple of lessons of this unit aren't as bad as a lot of other units we have had. The first lesson was primarily math. All we had to do was plug and chug with a couple equations that have to do with wavelength and frequency. Then we moved on to a little more complex stuff that involves electron orbitals. So far so good though, hopefully this unit will help me get back into the rhythm of chemistry.


Here is the wavelength equation:

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Here is electron orbitals: 

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