Week of March 4 to March 8

Getting into March.   Believe it or not, next Sunday at 2 AM we turn the clocks forward and start daylight savings time.  

As usual, all plans and assignments are subject to change and adjustments.

Chem-I:

Monday:   We will be going over the quiz taken last Friday on decays and nuclear stability.  We will then start covering the topic of half-life for radioisotopes and doing half-life problems (Keynote).   Homework due Tuesday:   solve the following problems:  page 808 numbers 13,14 and page 821 # 38 and page 822 # 51 and 54.  Probable quiz on Wed/Thurs.

Tuesday:  Homework due:  problems from pages 808, 821 and 822 (see above).  We'll go over the homework problems and then continue with transmutation rxns:  mainly nuclear bombardment and decay series (Keynote).   Homework Due Wednesday/Thursday:   Problems page 808 #12 and page 822 numbers 47 and 49.  Probable quiz on Wed/Thurs on half-life and transmutation.

Wednesday/Thursday:  problems from page 808 and 822 due (see Tuesday).    We wil go over homework and have a quick review.  We will (probably) have a quiz (open note) on half-life problems and transmutation rxns.    After that we will start an ABC News Frontline special on Fukushima.  HW for Friday:  NONE

Friday:   Finishing News documentary on the Fukushima accident.  (NOTE:   We will be finishing Unit 4 on nuclear chem next week with test to PROBABLY be on Friday, March 15th.  


Chem-II:

Monday:  Test on unit on Aqueous Sol'ns and Solution Strength calculations (Chapters 15 and 16)
 Homework due on WEDNESDAY is Read/SSS in Chapter 19 pages 587 and 588 and do questions on p625 numbers 1 through 4.


Tuesday:  Finishing/going over test.  Working on Assigment for Wed (see above)

Wednesday:   Begin new Unit  on Acids and Bases (Chapters 19 and 20):   review names/formulas for acids and bases;  mono, di and tri protic acids.  General properties of acids and bases.   Introduction to pH and pOH concepts and calculations. Example problems.
Problems for HOMEWORD due on Friday:   p 625 numbers 55 thru 57 and page 626 # 76.
Probable Quiz on Friday on Acid/Bases to-date.

Friday:  go over homework.  Quick review.  Probable quiz.