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CH302 Random Musings, April 13, 2006 1. An abbreviated musings today. I need time to get through all of electrochemistry. We start kinetics on Tuesday—our last topic for the course!! 2. There is a final quiz next Tuesday. It has the standard format—8 question types worth five points each. The question types are: • standard cell potential • ranking oxidizing/reducing reagents • calculating ΔG from E • cell convention • famous battery • Nernst equation calculation • using current in a stoichiometry calculation • balancing a redox reaction 3. I will be generating a practice quiz 6 that will mimic the kinds of questions you will see on the quiz next Tuesday. I will post it this evening and e-mail it as an attachment as well. In addition I will post a worksheet 12 of different kinds of more advanced electrochemistry problems for you to work. 4. Help sessions on Monday and Tuesday before the quiz are in the classrooms. On Wednesday, when only a couple of you care, we are back to office hours in my office. 5. I am filling my schedule with folks who would like my guidance about acing the final or salvaging their grade in this course. Please e-mail to let me know you situation and we can arrange for the two of us to meet. Understand that I am meeting with a lot of people so with my schedule filling up, you need to make the appointment as soon as possible to get in to see me. 6. Extra Credit. A reminder to turn in the extra credit opportunities posted in last week’s musings. A few points: • you would be crazy not to do the extra credits—no matter what the grading process you use, unless you know for a certainty what your grades on the exams and quizzes will be, doing the extra credit “lowers the curve” at every grade cutoff by 3%, and you will want this kind of insurance if you value the grade you earn in the class • the research poster extra credit is due next Tuesday—it was great to see so many of you at the poster session, many actually enjoying the experience • the scholarly lecture extra credit is due the last week of class • I know some of you have not able to submit the extra credits—the reasons can be everything from privacy settings on computers to hitting the Blackboard buttons in the wrong sequence. In the end, learning to use this drop box feature is a good thing because you will find it increasingly part of your courses at UT, so you might as well get it figured out now. Don’t worry if you have troubles and it means you miss a deadline for submission, you will still get credit when you get it in. Persevere. • Please don’t e-mail me to confirm you are getting credit. As I have mentioned several times, you will get the opportunity to verify you have the credit before decisions are made about grades.7. Public Service Announcements. • Kappa Phi Gamma is having their Philanthropy Week with the following events scheduled: CARE WEEK 2006, Cancer Awareness a Relief Effort Monday April 17th Kick Off Rally West Mall 11-2pm Tuesday April 18th Candlelight Vigil Main Mall 7pm Thursday April 20th Mr. CARE Week Pageant ART 1.102 7pm Thursday April 20th Charity Party Club Zero Degrees 11:08pm All Proceeds Benefiting Cancer Care Services • Here is a chance to participate in some social science research being conducted in Human Ecology. A web site called Romance Under the Microscope has been developed that educates people about what it takes to have a good romantic relationship. The researchers are doing a study on the effectiveness of the site and would like you to participate. If you participate, you will complete the Web site in an office here on campus and then fill out some questionnaires. A small number of individuals will also be briefly interviewed. The total about of time expected is about 1 ½ hours maximum, but most participants are finishing in about 30 minutes. If you participate, you will be entered into numerous drawings for a chance to win $20. If you are interested, please send an email to [email protected] and note two things: (1) you are interested in participating in the study and (2) whether or not you are in a current dating relationship. I will then contact you about available times and dates of the study. • WHITE ELEPHANT: A cycle play about the interwoven lives of characters in a small 1920s town. The arrival of the circus and its pachyderm main attraction affects all of the characters, forcing them to deal with loss, love, freedom, and death. Written and Directed by Tony Meneses 2006 O'Neill Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist WHEN: April 12th-15th, Wednesday- Saturday, April 19th-21st, Wednesday- Friday @ 7:30 WHERE: Theater (Inside the School of Social Work, next to REC Center) 1925 San Jacinto • I have been asked to post a couple of announcements concerning student activism with respect to social/political/economic issues in Africa. I provide the information here, not to take sides, but to promote, in general, the idea of students getting involved in shaping the world they will inherit. I would imagine that much of the way your generation will be remembered will be a consequence of cleaning up the messes that my generation made there. 1. Jenna Kawalsk is looking for volunteers to help with the Darfur, Sudan rally at the Capitol on April 30th. They need people's help with advertising, PR, etc. You can do as much or as little as you want. The genocide in Darfur is a serious matter and has taken the lives of 400,000 and has displaced over two million people from their homes. Please email Jenna Kawalsky if you are interested or if you would like more information. [email protected] 2. Several students in class are members of Rotaract (a college chapter of Rotary International), and our goal for this month is to create awareness and support for the Global Night Commute. Global Night Commute is an event taking place on April 29, 2006, to convince the US Congress to help the 20,000-50,000 children in Northern Uganda who are being abducted by a rebel army with the goal of toppling the Ugandan government. The documentary, “Invisible Children” will be shown at the event.9. Now back to poetry: one of the most famously challenging poems ever written, and one that is particularly appropriate this time of year to those of a religious bent. It is by my favorite poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, who


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