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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Overall Summary of Acids and Bases

Overall, it was a difficult, yet interesting unit. I personally was gone two days for field trips and those days were on the lab days. This was a good and bad thing. Good because I didn't miss any lessons, and bad because there was 3 questions from the lab we performed. Oh wells... Everything that was said about acids and bases was somewhat true. It was a difficult unit but I gave it my best effort. It was a good run Acids and Bases.....

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Sincerely, 

Matt

Post Acid Bases Test

After I put my pencil down and turned it in, I was a little frazzled. All the stories told about the "worst chapter in the book" were true. It was a difficult chapter, not because the material was difficult to understand, but because of all the possible tiny mistakes you can make during the test/unit. The test for me could've gone either way.. Hopefully all is well and there is no sadness in the end of the day.

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Test Study Links

A few links I used to study!!

Acids and Bases General Help
Titration
pH
Bronsted Acids and Bases
Arrhenius
Strong and Weak Acids and Bases