Chemistry 2006/ 2007 Club***

Asklepios · Sep 9, 2006

First night of Chemistry tonight. The professor is cool and seems to want to make it pretty easy for us to do well. Plus, there was no lab tonight, so we got out early!

AmericanChai · Sep 11, 2006

I don't know if this has been posted or not, but I found a link with several different periodic tables (including blank ones) that you can print out for practice.

http://science.widener.edu/~svanbram/ptable.html

The Google caculator is really great for checking your conversion answers!

http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator

maryshome8 · Sep 12, 2006

I Need Help! I have an exam next week and want to know if anyone has a study guide, website, anything that will help with NAMING COMPOUNDS, mainly ionic compounds, but anything would be great!

My direct e-mail is [email protected]

buddiage · Sep 12, 2006

Looking up nomenclature + chemistry in a yahoo search should do the trick. It should also be in your book. Perhaps adding "cheat sheet" might help your search.

natrgrrl · Sep 13, 2006

This site might help.

http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml

Good luck on the test. My first test is not for two weeks.

Multicollinearity, BSN, RN · Sep 15, 2006

Hi everyone. I'm taking chem plus chem lab separately. I have an unfortunate lab instructor. According to her, "almost everyone failed lab today." So she told us to find the standard chromatography flow rates of several common food dyes. Make up a report and get some extra credit. She said to look it up on the internet. I'm usually a wiz finding anything on google. Not this time. Any ideas?

Also, I'd like opinions on something. Every week we have a quiz on the lab we are going to do. She quizzes us on the lab before we do it, before she talks about it, and before we can ask any questions. We are just supposed to read the lab before (which is fair). But the lab textbook is actually confusing. It doesn't seem introductory, and this is an intro class. For example, we had no introduction to chromatography. The lab text just used the terms efluent, mobile phase, stationary phase, etc without defining the terms well. I had to spent a loooong time googling the items in the text book just to figure out what it was talkng about. I don't see how it is proper to test students on material that they haven't been taught by the instructor and before they can ask questions. She does her mini-lecture for about 5-7 minutes on the topic we were just quizzed on AFTER we take the quiz. I hate it if I sound whiney. Do your labs work like this?

Multicollinearity, BSN, RN · Sep 18, 2006

anyone?

semi-fly · Sep 18, 2006

I would suggest having a sit down with the instructor and explain your issues. If this does not resolve your issues, I then suggest that you have a sit down with the department chair, but to be nice inform her/him of your intentions.

You may also want to talk to your lecture instructor as well and mention what is going on to see what her/his thoughts are on the matter.

catzy5 · Sep 20, 2006

oh I feel for you we must be using the same books I am doing a foundations of chemistry with a lab it too is so confusing! Our lab book doesn't follow our text and I am struggling now trying to get a grip on the lab we will have for tomorrow, I always try to do all the exercises and understand the lab before going in otherwise I am way behind.

catherine

NavyWife · Sep 26, 2006

She quizzes us on the lab before we do it, before she talks about it, and before we can ask any questions.

We have a quiz before every lab...if we do not pass it, we are kicked out of lab for the day.:uhoh21: He stresses it is for our own safety because he doesn't want us coming in unpreparred...which I can see his point....however, the last lab had 5 separate procedures, and the 5th was over 2 pages long. According to him, "YOU SHOULD HAVE THEM MEMORIZED!!!! If you have to read it while doing it, it may be too late." That is what annoys me because how safe is it when we should not have to read what we are doing....if someone forgets a step, BOOM! We are all gone. I am just praying to live through the class at this point. lol On a side note, I love him for lecture, he just scares the crap out of me in lab.

Leeann337 · Sep 26, 2006

Any advice for those feeling like they are going nuts and totally overwhelmed? I am currently taking A&P 1, Chem and Psych and I work fulltime. I have had 2 tests in A&P this week (lecture and lab), a Psych test and Thursday I have a Chemistry test. The problem is this: it is my Chemistry professor's first year teaching and he hasn't really developed his teaching skills yet. You can tell he is very smart but that doesn't mean he can teach. He blows through the power point presentations in some classes and then in the next he gets halfway through, times up and we never go back. I'm very anxious because this grade means so much. Any advice? Thanks for letting me vent.

catzy5 · Sep 26, 2006

Any advice for those feeling like they are going nuts and totally overwhelmed? I am currently taking A&P 1, Chem and Psych and I work fulltime. I have had 2 tests in A&P this week (lecture and lab), a Psych test and Thursday I have a Chemistry test. The problem is this: it is my Chemistry professor's first year teaching and he hasn't really developed his teaching skills yet. You can tell he is very smart but that doesn't mean he can teach. He blows through the power point presentations in some classes and then in the next he gets halfway through, times up and we never go back. I'm very anxious because this grade means so much. Any advice? Thanks for letting me vent.

I don't have a very good Chem instructor either he gives us lecture notes and pretty much just reads them, I could easily not go to lecture as I study on my own from the text. I am also taking ap1 this semester and it is alot of work! My exams seem to come at the sametime too I have 2 this week.

My best advice is try to learn the material BEFORE going to class, I mean read the chapters, do the exercises in the book etc...then go listen to lecture so you will understand more of what he is going over. Also if you can align yourself with someone in the class doing well ask if they can explain what you are having troubles with. I prepare for the lecture before the class and usually have all homework completed before he has even discussed the lecture.

catherine