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That means the reaction shifts towards the left side, a.k.a. there are more reactants than products.

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Units were left in atm based off of Lavelle's examples.

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Kelvin is the SI unit for temperature.

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Last quarter going to the UA sessions was really helpful for practice questions and reinforcing topics, especially before exams.

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Exams are taken on Friday during your lecture time

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Yes, he said by Saturday!

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I think the most important thing for me will be to watch lectures as they come out, cramming watching lectures only a couple days before the final was very stressful and I ended up rushing to memorize all the information instead of actually learning it. I also want to start going to UA sessions each...

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Playing my own music usually results in me singing along or getting distracted, so if I really need to focus I look up any soft instrumental playlist on spotify and just press shuffle. I also have found that bossa nova music really helps me feel relaxed and study better, you could probably find some...

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Acid rain can be caused by naturally existing chemicals in the atmosphere, but is primarily caused from the burning of coal or fossil fuels which releases sulfur and nitrogen oxides into the air. These then react with H20 already present in the atmosphere which produces the acidic rain that can be h...

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Lillian wrote:I'm going to sleep until my organs fail, obviously.

this is the one

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The molecule with the greatest covalent character means the smallest difference in electronegativity between the two elements.

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Yes, they will be the same format as the midterms.

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Not sure if it's all, but I've definitely found that on our midterms some questions were taken verbatim from the textbook so it probably helps to do all the practice problems.

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Lavelle said that most of the material would be on the quantum world since that's what we spent the most time on. The other material will probably be distributed based on how much time we spent on it as well.

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Thank you! Good luck to you too :)

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Memorizing them would be very helpful.

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Is there somewhere where we can see the correct answers/work for midterm 2?

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I'm pretty sure a 50% or higher is passing for this class, and generally a 90-100 is in the A range.

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You also can draw the lewis structure for the molecule and look for asymmetry. If it is asymmetrical, it's polar and if it's symmetrical it's non- polar.

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Lavelle will probably let us know closer to the exam date. Like Amanda already said the syllabus doesn't specify anything about content distribution, only that it is cumulative.

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The week 7/8 homework is due tonight at 11:59!

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We do technically have Thursday and Friday off, but like someone said above since we still had lecture posted on Veteran's day we probably will also have the same thing happen on Friday. :/

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I also felt that this midterm was much harder than the 1st, but I think that it'll help to really grind out over the topics you didn't understand from this section over the next couple weeks and hopefully do better on the final, since that takes up a good portion of our grades.

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I like to watch my favorite shows, sleep in--essentially just do nothing can be the greatest relaxer tbh.

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Midterm scores should be posted this Wednesday! Assuming it will be released the same time it was for midterm 1.

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The final is cumulative covering material from the entire quarter.

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I'm pretty sure you have until week 9 to change your grading to P/NP, so my advice would be to maybe wait until you have a good understanding of where your grade is at in the class before you change it. But make sure to double check your major requirements!

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I have a friend that took this chem series last year, and she took 14b and 14bL in different quarters! so you should be fine they don't have to be taken simultaneously.

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Yes, the constant c is always going to represent the speed of light in that equation. (c=3x10^8 m/s)

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It's the same amount of time but less calculations, so most likely less time consuming.

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No, we aren't allowed to have annotations on our sheets during the actual midterm but it helps to annotate on a practice copy to cement them in your head before the exam.

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Can someone elaborate on the step-up sessions, I'm kind of confused about what happens in them. Are they worthwhile? Thanks Step-up sessions have been really helpful for me! It's especially useful for understanding the basics before moving on to more complex problems. At each session the UA's have ...

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I also didn't take AP chem in high school, and I find myself in your situation pretty often during lectures. If something is confusing to me, it usually helps to attend TA office hours so I can ask specific questions. And like other people in this thread said, khan academy videos or quick youtube le...

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What works best for me is making sure that I separate the places where I study vs where I relax. Personally working in my room is very distracting for me, so if you have an office or extra space in the house that you can work that might help. Another thing I do is using the "downtime" feat...

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I was also wondering this, should we just go to TA office hours/drop-in sessions and ask on our own or is there a session specifically dedicated to midterm review?

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Hydrogen bonds only occur with N, O, or F because they have to be bonded to a highly electronegative atom. Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Fluorine are the only atoms with a high enough electronegativity for this to occur!

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To avoid spending money, I think most TA's let you use zoom on your phone as long as they can see your whole workspace.

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Are results posted for everyone yet? I can't see mine on CCLE.

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I don't know if this will help you, but in HS they taught us the mnemonic "King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk Monday Night" (kilo, hecto, deka, base, deci, centi, milli, micro, nano) to memorize the order of the SI units.

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Like everyone has been saying, the v for frequency is written in cursive and for velocity it is not. If you forget that you can always look at your units: frequency (hz), velocity (m/s).

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Hi, just to go off this question where can we find the list of equations/constants that we need for the exam?

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How are you guys checking your answers for even # problems?

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I also would second doing the homework problems if nothing else, because Lavelle has said those questions will be put on exams. But other than that reviewing the audio-visual modules can help really cement in certain topics, along with doing the UA worksheets from step-up sessions as extra practice.

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Doing the audio-visual focus topics before watching lecture really helps so that you already have a basic understanding of concepts before he goes over them.

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Do we only focus on up to 1D on outline 2 or is all of outline 1 also included for the midterm?

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Like previously stated, the only time a number would apply to both elements is if it's used as a coefficient (e.g. 2CO; C=2, O=2). So in that example since the 4 is only after the O, C=1 and O=4.

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Thanks for the clarification!

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https://www.respondus.com/lockdown/down ... =228644488
This is the link my TA gave us to download respondus if that's what you were looking for!

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During step-up sessions can we only go through topics from that week or is any question free game?

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Sorry just to make sure I have this correct so there is no Sapling HW due tonight?

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To answer the question from above the extra practice problems besides Sapling are from the book! He gave them to us under the "Outlines" for each unit on the class website and they're also on the syllabus. I'm pretty sure some of those questions are taken straight from the textbook and put...

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Here is a short video that helped me on how to use it in case you needed a visual! https://rb.gy/jfzyi9

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I am also a little confused by the previous question! Shouldn't all those trailing zeroes be significant since they change the number entirely or is that not the purpose of sig figs?

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I'm pretty sure if you're just trying to figure out the molecular formula, no they do not hold any significance. Like for example on Question #8 on Sapling, you only have to count how many times each element appears in the molecule to find the molecular formula, which the double bonds have no effect...

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For #7, to first get the mass of CaCl2 I just took the percentage of calcium chloride given and multiplied it by the total mass (0.35*660.4). And because you can assume anything left in the solution would be water, you can then take that mass of CaCl2 you got and subtract it from the total mass to g...

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Not sure if it's necessarily required, but it is definitely very helpful to ensure you don't make any mistakes. And like the previous response said, crossing out units on the top and bottom can be a way of checking your work to make sure you end up with correct units in the end. So you should probab...

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