rm042910.pdfOutreach Flyer Spring 2010 final.pdfA Very Brief Random Musings—April 29, 2010 1. As usual, you all did extremely well on the last quiz, with an average of 78% and over 150 students getting perfect scores. It looks like things are setting up well for exam 3, though the electrochem and kinetics questions on the exam will be a bit more of a challenge. 2. There is an exam 3 next week with the usual details to follow on Tuesday. One big issue to keep in mind: Technically the make-up exam 3 shouldn't occur during dead days after the last day of class. I try to argue it with the Registrar but they are never pleased. So here I the compromise: Examination should not occur during dead days after the last day of class and can occur only under the most extreme of circumstances. So I can offer the make-up on Sunday night, May 9, only to students with a valid conflict. So you are expected to take it Thursday night May 6 unless you provide evidence, not just that a class is scheduled, but that it is actually meeting that night. 3. The following are true as we get ready for the exam 3: • I will have a practice exam ready on Friday evening or early Saturday morning • The TAs will have a practice exam ready on Sunday. • The exam is calculator free. • My help sessions are in the classrooms • I will have a review session on Monday evening at 9 pm in this room. • Travis will have a review session on Tuesday evening. Specific details will follow. 4. Question types for Exam 3 are repeated below: Question Types for Electrochemistry 1. balancing a chemical reaction in acid or base 2. assigning cell convention in electrochemical cell 3. understanding the table of standard half cells 4. Nernst equation calculation 5. ranking oxidizing and reducing agents 6. stoichiometry calculation using the Faraday 7. current calculation 8. calculation involving E, K and ΔG 9. famous battery Question Types for Kinetics 10. calculating reaction rates 11. method of initial rates 12. integrated rate law calculation 13. integrated rate law calculation (half life) 14. extracting information from straight line plots 15. kinetic theory—collision 16 kinetic theory—transition state 17. combined Arrhenius calculation 18. reaction mechanisms 19. Ea and energy profiles 20. famous catalysts Descriptive Chemistry 21. properties and reactivity of alkali metals 22. properties and reactivity of alkali earths 23. properties and reactivity of the B family 24. properties and reactivity of the N family 25. properties and reactivity of the C family 26 properties and reactivity of the O family 27. properties and reactivity of the halogen family 28. famous chemical manufacturing processes 29. identifying famous gemstones Organic Molecules 30. hydrocarbon isomers 31. naming organic molecules 32. naming organic molecules 33. organic polymer chemistry 34 biomolecule structure 35. biomolecule structure 5. IMPORTANT TIME CHANGE FOR “HOW TO GET AN A” GROUP—Here are some things that I regret: • The morning after I got married I went to the Natural Sciences graduation exercise to read the names of the graduates—my wife watched me from the front row wondering what she had gotten herself into. • On Mother’s Day for the last four years, I have held a dinner party at my house for students in my seminars and for my UGTAs and TAs—my wife spends much of Mother’s Day cleaning up the mess they make. SO • On Sunday my daughter is having her First Communion, and relatives from all over are coming to town to celebrate, except that I have already committed to doing a chemistry circus immediately afterward, but I said, hey, let’s all go to the circus, it will be fun, and then my wife said, when are we taking the family out to eat? and I was about to say, we can’t, I am having a “How to Get an A” session at 7 pm, but I thought better of it, so now, The How to Get an A session is Sunday evening at 9 pm rather than 7. Sorry for the inconvenience. For those who cannot make it, it will be videoed. 6. Instructions for the How to get an A group—don’t come on Sunday unless you have done the following: • Memorized the 35 questions types (this is pretty easy if you’ve done the kinetics and EC) • Create cards with question types, place question exams from the practice exams and quizzes on back • Create piles based on the ones you know and the ones you don’t know • Start to generate recipes for the question types 7. Get those extra credits in—there are plenty of scholarly lectures going on right now but they tend to wind down as the semester draws to a close. Please make it a point to earn back the last 3% of your course grade, basically worth a + or a - grade just for getting them in. 8. I will have a massive random musings for the class next Thursday to explain everything about the upcoming exams, finals, grading. Also I will give you a chance to indicate to me whether there is anything I need to know about grades or nonacademic stuff on a form you will return. 9. Poetry Corner Part I. I believe that by the time I pass on to the other side, I will have enough poetry written about my course to publish a couple volumes worth. And if everyone who ever took this course bought a copy, we’re talking New York Times Best Seller. Here is some love and some hate poetry about CH302:Pronounced Dead as of May 13th 2008 As the death of finals creeps over me I sit and wonder how this can be Why did I not try a LITTLE harder to exempt Study a LITTLE bit more, the pain would have been temp. But now, I must suffer through this chemistry smog It’s hurting my brain; I need a catalytic converter to clear the fog And I’m regretting all of those stupid decisions Because now I have no choice but to learn about molecular collisions And rates, and methods of reactions galore Good thing Ochem isn’t as hardcore What keeps me going is after this test I will be free once again To live my life, go out and have some fun with my friends! I’ll say goodbye; RIP general chemistry 302…. Until the MCAT where I will meet the ghost of you. --Anonymous Dr. Laude, please fail me. Oh my, can you believe it? The semester’s end is near. The thought of no more CH 302, makes me shed a big tear. Nay, not one tear, but many you see, Because life without Laude and Co. is like Moses without the sea. We started with struggling with quantum numbers last Fall
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