Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Last class period to collect data for Internal Assessment.  Remember that your IA consisting of the Design and Data Collection and Processing is due next Tuesday, March 4th.

If you still need to finish your trials, you will need to come in before or after school (check with me to make sure I’ll be there!).

Friday, February 14, 2014

Internal Assessment-Design due Wednesday!

1. Warm-up:

1.What are some assumptions we must make when calculating the enthalpy change of a reaction?
2.What are some experimental methods of carrying out a calorimetry experiment (you need to know two)?

a.  Describe some ways to minimize errors associated with these methods.  

2. Lab:  Heats of Solutions and Reactions  LabHeatsSolutionandReaction

*there is no formal write-up for this.  I want to see your calculations and resulting changes in enthalpy for each reaction and your answer as to if the reaction is exothermic or endothermic.