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- Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:13 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Question about study resources
- Replies: 3
- Views: 857
Re: Question about study resources
Do any of y'all have any really good study guides that you guys are willing to share?
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:12 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: How do you deal with burnout?
- Replies: 144
- Views: 26507
Re: How do you deal with burnout?
I feel so unmotivated this quarter to be honest. I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing, but honestly I just started working out and it's a nice way to release or go running or honestly just pick up a hobby, just don't let it stop you from doing your work like me. :((
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:10 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Fave food
- Replies: 266
- Views: 55291
Re: Fave food
I'm such a sweets person and I hate it because it takes so much self-discipline to restrain from eating whatever I want! But summer is around the corner and feeling good is one of my main goals this summer and it unfortunately starts now.
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:08 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Final Jitters
- Replies: 457
- Views: 492643
Re: Final Jitters
Do you any of you guys know where to find any last minute extra help before the final this Sunday?
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:06 pm
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Saying Thank You to Dr. Lavelle
- Replies: 490
- Views: 710989
Re: Saying Thank You to Dr. Lavelle
Before college I had never really taken a real chemistry class, and Lavelle you were my first real chemistry teacher. Although you do not offer the whole 14 series, I really wanted to appreciate you and showing me what a real chemistry class is like. It has been rough and difficult to pick up chemis...
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 11:03 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Culinary Chemistry
- Replies: 239
- Views: 47520
Re: Culinary Chemistry
is there any chemistry that is connected with making cake pops and can someone possibly explain that? maybe to improve how one can make them at home?
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:53 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post Midterm 2 De-stressing
- Replies: 92
- Views: 10348
Re: Post Midterm 2 De-stressing
Is Wanda Vision that good? I LOVE MARVEL so I've been debating on seeing it, but everyone says its so GOODD. Please let me know if it's worth skipping studying time LOL
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:50 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 4097246
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
I make bad Chemistry jokes because all of the good ones ARGON (Ar)
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:46 pm
- Forum: Concepts & Calculations Using First Law of Thermodynamics
- Topic: Enthalpy of Formation
- Replies: 3
- Views: 364
Re: Enthalpy of Formation
I watched a really helpful YouTube video on it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP-VYfTYi8Y&t=685s
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:45 pm
- Forum: Concepts & Calculations Using First Law of Thermodynamics
- Topic: Monatomic and Linear Gases
- Replies: 4
- Views: 415
Re: Monatomic and Linear Gases
How many questions over this topic do you think will be on the final?
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:44 pm
- Forum: Concepts & Calculations Using First Law of Thermodynamics
- Topic: H vs q
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1021
Re: H vs q
Does any one have any good practice problems or YouTube videos for this topic to study for the final?
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:48 pm
- Forum: Identifying Acidic & Basic Salts
- Topic: Determining Acids or Bases (Number based)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 576
Re: Determining Acids or Bases (Number based)
is there a good YouTube video for finding out the ones we are supposed to know?
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:44 pm
- Forum: General Science Questions
- Topic: Rusty on High School Chem [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 347
- Views: 502039
Re: Rusty on High School Chem [ENDORSED]
Other than PLFs are there any good tutoring sessions or people who offer services?
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:44 pm
- Forum: General Science Questions
- Topic: Rusty on High School Chem [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 347
- Views: 502039
Re: Rusty on High School Chem [ENDORSED]
I am taking 14B and I am still really scared to keep going into chemistry because I still do not know how to study for chemistry and not having developed that ability since high school.
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:39 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Culinary Chemistry
- Replies: 239
- Views: 47520
Re: Culinary Chemistry
Also, are there certain videos that help explain the chemistry behind cooking different foods?
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:36 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Culinary Chemistry
- Replies: 239
- Views: 47520
Re: Culinary Chemistry
What in chemistry makes flavors in food taste different other than heat?
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 12:00 am
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Exam Format
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1343
Re: Exam Format
They are usually multiple choice and tend to go by the book more as a resource!
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:59 pm
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Advice from a Medical Student [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 297
- Views: 504009
Re: Advice from a Medical Student [ENDORSED]
Thank you so much for this! I think a lot of things that we might have not seen as normal are now very normalized and I feel more secure as a pre-med student :)
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:58 pm
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Midterm 2
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2738
Re: Midterm 2
Also, do you guys have any study groups who hold zooms before the test to review?
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:57 pm
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Midterm 2
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2738
Re: Midterm 2
How did you guys study and what really helped versus what really did not help y'all?
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:57 pm
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Tutoring? [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 121
- Views: 326565
Re: Tutoring? [ENDORSED]
PLF sessions are super helpful in the sense that they are like tutoring but way better! They give you the opportunity to explore the topic with your peers.
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:56 pm
- Forum: Reaction Enthalpies (e.g., Using Hess’s Law, Bond Enthalpies, Standard Enthalpies of Formation)
- Topic: Does phase matter in Hess's Law?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2231
Re: Does phase matter in Hess's Law?
does Lavelle speak over this? by any chance specifically in his lectures?
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:31 pm
- Forum: Phase Changes & Related Calculations
- Topic: standard form
- Replies: 14
- Views: 835
Re: standard form
Is there a certain chart though that maybe could be found online or through Lavelle's lectures?
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:30 pm
- Forum: Phase Changes & Related Calculations
- Topic: State Property
- Replies: 11
- Views: 607
Re: State Property
I might have missed it from Lavelle's lectures but are there other properties that I should know of?
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:29 pm
- Forum: Phase Changes & Related Calculations
- Topic: endothermic/exothermic
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5191
Re: endothermic/exothermic
Here is a YouTube video that really helped me understand these concepts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cUK4jcAEaU
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:27 pm
- Forum: Phase Changes & Related Calculations
- Topic: midterm respondus
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1008
Re: midterm respondus
Just for future tests make sure to go to chrome or safari and enter the test then access the lockdown browser through the regular browser so you don't waste time trying to access the test though the lockdown browser
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:24 pm
- Forum: Phase Changes & Related Calculations
- Topic: when to assume x is insignificant
- Replies: 86
- Views: 10950
Re: when to assume x is insignificant
x is insignificant when you get a percent ionization less than 5% and when k is less than 1.0 x 10^-4
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:29 pm
- Forum: Non-Equilibrium Conditions & The Reaction Quotient
- Topic: H2O as a Gas
- Replies: 69
- Views: 8208
Re: H2O as a Gas
Just as previous replies have stated you would only include H2O in the reaction is it were a gas, not a liquid since liquids are never included.
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:27 pm
- Forum: Non-Equilibrium Conditions & The Reaction Quotient
- Topic: Relationship between Ka and pKa
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1329
Re: Relationship between Ka and pKa
Here's a brief YouTube video that helped me distinguish the difference between the both and other terms we need to know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ6gHQAg_Nk
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:24 pm
- Forum: Non-Equilibrium Conditions & The Reaction Quotient
- Topic: Percent ionization
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1218
Re: Percent ionization
Does anyone know of a good YouTube video that explains percent ionization? I sort of understood how Lavelle explained it but I need more examples.
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:22 pm
- Forum: Non-Equilibrium Conditions & The Reaction Quotient
- Topic: Rounding E Values in ICE charts
- Replies: 17
- Views: 782
Re: Rounding E Values in ICE charts
is this why he referenced it to money when he stated if someone has 10,000 dollars and gives 10 dollars to someone, they basically have 10,000 dollars? Is that what he signified, by basically rounding if the E is less than a certain value?
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:20 pm
- Forum: Non-Equilibrium Conditions & The Reaction Quotient
- Topic: Salts making solution acidic or basic
- Replies: 6
- Views: 419
Re: Salts making solution acidic or basic
Just like the previous response, I have trouble telling between acidic and basic salts, is there a sort of mechanism of remembering the difference or the properties of what makes them more basic, acidic or neutral?
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:42 pm
- Forum: Ideal Gases
- Topic: Bars to atm [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2362
Re: Bars to atm [ENDORSED]
For one problem on the week 1 homework due tonight we have a problem that utilizes the units of bars so in order to solve is it mandatory to covert it to atm or is it just recommended?
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:40 pm
- Forum: Ideal Gases
- Topic: Non-Ideal gases?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1231
Re: Non-Ideal gases?
just so I can reference it for later what are non-ideal gases and what are they utilized for?
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:39 pm
- Forum: Ideal Gases
- Topic: n/V = concentration
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2690
Re: n/V = concentration
so let's say there is a problem where they provide the mols and they are in a certain number of L in a container you would have to find the concentration with is basically mol/L in order to then proceed with the problem?
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:38 pm
- Forum: Ideal Gases
- Topic: reversing reactions
- Replies: 83
- Views: 7026
Re: reversing reactions
One good video that expressed an example of reversing a reaction was on this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ0KNQ5-KaI
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:36 pm
- Forum: Ideal Gases
- Topic: reversing reactions
- Replies: 83
- Views: 7026
Re: reversing reactions
just like how you reversed the reaction, you would have k inversed so it would be 1/K
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:33 pm
- Forum: Equilibrium Constants & Calculating Concentrations
- Topic: ICE Tables
- Replies: 11
- Views: 788
Re: ICE Tables
I utilized this YouTube video to help me solve and figure out ice tables https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54n1XppP-lA
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:29 pm
- Forum: Equilibrium Constants & Calculating Concentrations
- Topic: 5H.1 Square root, dividing, and inversing the K value
- Replies: 4
- Views: 312
Re: 5H.1 Square root, dividing, and inversing the K value
just clarifying, but we would only need to square or cube K when the coefficients/ moles of the reaction are being multiplied by 2 or 3 respectively?
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:27 pm
- Forum: Equilibrium Constants & Calculating Concentrations
- Topic: Coefficients for eq constant
- Replies: 9
- Views: 697
Re: Coefficients for eq constant
In order to figure out where the coefficients would go I saw this YouTube video which should help. He clearly explains the whole process : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ0KNQ5-KaI
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:24 pm
- Forum: Equilibrium Constants & Calculating Concentrations
- Topic: change in K
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1091
Re: change in K
Just as stated from before, K can only be altered by temperature
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:22 pm
- Forum: Ideal Gases
- Topic: Ice method
- Replies: 14
- Views: 879
Re: Ice method
Do any of you have any recommendations on a good YouTube video for explaining Ice tables?
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:24 pm
- Forum: General Science Questions
- Topic: # of chem posts
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2165
Re: # of chem posts
can you catch up on chemistry community posts? for example lets say you have 10 the whole quarter and decide to catch up on the last week is it still valid?
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:22 pm
- Forum: General Science Questions
- Topic: Passing Grade
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2592
Re: Passing Grade
It applies I believe to the points of the assignments of the overall class in order to get a passing grade.
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Science Questions
- Topic: Chemistry Behind Mosquito Bites
- Replies: 6
- Views: 863
Re: Chemistry Behind Mosquito Bites
Does the saliva in mosquitos naturally release histamine or it normally found in their saliva to begin with?
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:18 pm
- Forum: General Science Questions
- Topic: Grades
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2589
Re: Grades
I also check on CCLE under the tab, Grades, it should be very easy to find.
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:14 pm
- Forum: General Science Questions
- Topic: Rusty on High School Chem [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 347
- Views: 502039
Re: Rusty on High School Chem [ENDORSED]
Lavelle this quarter especially with a pandemic and personally not having any experience with chemistry at all coming out of high school provided lots of resources to help learn and digest the material which I appreciated a lot. Also, YouTube videos are very essential and can teach you a lot of the ...
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:12 pm
- Forum: Lewis Acids & Bases
- Topic: general conceptual question
- Replies: 9
- Views: 872
Re: general conceptual question
Usually I would think about the hydrogens attached or the OH's attached to determine whether it is more on the acidic or basic side, but I do have trouble determining whether it would be a strong or weak acid or base.
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:08 pm
- Forum: Lewis Acids & Bases
- Topic: Lewis vs Bronsted
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1348
Re: Lewis vs Bronsted
is finding the conjugate acids and bases different for each type of acid and base based on whether they are lewis or not?
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:03 pm
- Forum: Acidity & Basicity Constants and The Conjugate Seesaw
- Topic: Finding PH and POH
- Replies: 6
- Views: 504
Finding PH and POH
I know there is a set of equations to find POH and PH but are there other ways of figuring it out for visual learners?
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:01 pm
- Forum: Acidity & Basicity Constants and The Conjugate Seesaw
- Topic: How to calculate the pKa
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1042
Re: How to calculate the pKa
I utilized this video to help me gain a better understanding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ6gHQAg_Nk
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:59 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Plans for Relaxing After Finals
- Replies: 98
- Views: 27061
Re: Plans for Relaxing After Finals
I'm planning to catch up on as many TV shows as I can since I can never watch them during the quarter and work to get money and be financially stable temporarily.
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:57 pm
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Tutoring? [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 121
- Views: 326565
Re: Tutoring? [ENDORSED]
Yes I do believe that adds help since a lot of people don't know about the resource and it is very easy to get in as long as you meet the basic requirements of being a minority and earning a certain amount for AAP.
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:56 pm
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Saying Thank You to Dr. Lavelle
- Replies: 490
- Views: 710989
Re: Saying Thank You to Dr. Lavelle
Honestly, I had no experience in chemistry since high school ended and even then the education in high school chemistry was not that great so providing many tutoring hours and step up sessions was very helpful. I am very grateful to have a lot more background and introduction to chemistry now becaus...
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:54 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Expanded Octet
- Replies: 4
- Views: 314
Re: Expanded Octet
Why is it that only some elements on the periodic table such as Sulfur have an expanded octet and I understand that they can have multiple bonds, but how and why are they the only ones??
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:52 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Final Jitters
- Replies: 457
- Views: 492643
Re: Final Jitters
Start in advance! I cannot say how many times I did not give myself enough time to study a whole quarter's worth of material and also do not forget to take care of yourself is is very necessary in order to maintain your body and your brain in a good state to take the final.
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:50 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 4097246
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
Why does hamburger yield lower energy than steak?
Because it's in the ground state.
Because it's in the ground state.
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:49 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 4097246
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
If H2O is the formula for water, what is the formula for ice?
H2O Cubed.
H2O Cubed.
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:48 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 4097246
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
Why was the move oxygen was excited when he walked out of the singles bar?
He got Avogadro's number!!
He got Avogadro's number!!
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:46 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 4097246
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
What did the sign to say when he found two isotopes of helium?
HeHe
HeHe
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:45 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 4097246
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
Did you hear oxygen went on a date with potassium?
It went OK.
It went OK.
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:44 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 4097246
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
What do you do with the sick chemist?
If you can't Helium, you can't curium, then you might as well barium.
If you can't Helium, you can't curium, then you might as well barium.
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:43 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
- Replies: 9651
- Views: 4097246
Re: Post All Chemistry Jokes Here
Have you heard the one about a chemist who was reading a book about Helium??
He just couldn't put it down.
He just couldn't put it down.
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:40 pm
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Advice from a Medical Student - Part II [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 298
- Views: 362959
Re: Advice from a Medical Student - Part II [ENDORSED]
This story is honestly very motivating. I feel as if certain classes make pre-meds feel as if it is not doable and it does get very scary to keep heading into a direction you are not entirely sure about. As a first generation Latina I have had many doubts about the medical system as a whole and how ...
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:36 pm
- Forum: Heisenberg Indeterminacy (Uncertainty) Equation
- Topic: Uncertainty in Speed [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 31
- Views: 18322
Re: Uncertainty in Speed [ENDORSED]
If you need more help solving for these uncertainty questions this YouTube video really helped me get through these types of problems here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNYz5EKXVeI
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:32 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: Winter Break Plans
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3003
Re: Winter Break Plans
I am going to try and catch up on some Netflix shows and go visit my family at their house. Also, I cannot wait to work over the winter break in order to accumulate some money for next quarter.
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 4:05 pm
- Forum: Student Social/Study Group
- Topic: How are you studying?
- Replies: 204
- Views: 30850
Re: How are you studying?
I go through the lectures and sometimes I can't understand the topics and YouTube really helps me understands them since ai don't have time to go through all the Audio-Visual Topics. I understand what it is like to not have time and I have to stay up really late watching them but it's worth it since...
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 3:59 pm
- Forum: Properties of Electrons
- Topic: Electrons Excited or Ejected
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1051
Re: Electrons Excited or Ejected
If the electrons do not get excited or ejected do they ever get absorbed?
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 3:44 pm
- Forum: Einstein Equation
- Topic: e=hv used for particles?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1482
Re: e=hv used for particles?
Can some one explain to me how to utilize avagrado's number? Is it usually utilized as a conversion for photons are there other ways to use this number?
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 3:39 pm
- Forum: Photoelectric Effect
- Topic: What happens to absorbed photons?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 504
Re: What happens to absorbed photons?
Honestly I am confused about that too. I am not entirely sure. I also had trouble solving out problems that were about the photoelectric effect but I found a YouTube video that really helped me, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LECEvusk8E
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:07 pm
- Forum: Balancing Chemical Reactions
- Topic: Balancing Chemical Reactions Order
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7247
Re: Balancing Chemical Reactions Order
Usually Hyrdogen and Oxygen are left last but every problem is different! A video that helped me understand balancing equations and in which order was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_C-V5vJv80
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:03 pm
- Forum: Balancing Chemical Reactions
- Topic: Combining Atoms
- Replies: 7
- Views: 352
Re: Combining Atoms
How do I write out a proper equation? Where can I can the charge of an atom to combine them?
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:40 pm
- Forum: Limiting Reactant Calculations
- Topic: Limiting reactant Confusion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 174
Limiting reactant Confusion
How do I find the limiting reactant within an equation when it's not given?
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:34 pm
- Forum: Significant Figures
- Topic: How to deal with significant figures in decimals with zeros.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1355
Re: How to deal with significant figures in decimals with zeros.
Here's also a YouTube that really helped me understand sig figs! It explains the rules with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmeImtwhfj8
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:27 pm
- Forum: Significant Figures
- Topic: Empirical vs Molecular Formula?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 457
Re: Empirical vs Molecular Formula?
Just making sure but let's say for example the sample mass is 110 plus or minus 10 would be an estimate? This is referencing problem 9 on the sampling hw.