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- Sun Mar 19, 2017 12:49 am
- Forum: *Nucleophilic Substitution
- Topic: Question 5 on the 2013 final
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1394
Question 5 on the 2013 final
Where does the OH go?? also why isn't this an addition reaction??
- Fri Mar 17, 2017 1:10 am
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Quiz 3 Winter 2017
- Replies: 183
- Views: 29655
Re: Quiz 3 Winter 2017
How do you get the pseudo equilibrium constant on quiz 3?
- Fri Mar 17, 2017 1:06 am
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Quiz 3 Winter 2017
- Replies: 183
- Views: 29655
Re: Quiz 3 Winter 2017
Where are the answers for the actual quiz 3 posted.
- Thu Mar 16, 2017 1:24 am
- Forum: Appications of the Nernst Equation (e.g., Concentration Cells, Non-Standard Cell Potentials, Calculating Equilibrium Constants and pH)
- Topic: Question 4 2013 Practice Final
- Replies: 1
- Views: 519
Question 4 2013 Practice Final
How do they get n=4 for #4 on the 2013 practice final??
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 9:15 pm
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Quiz 3 Winter 2017
- Replies: 183
- Views: 29655
Re: Quiz 3 Winter 2017
On one of the examples in the course reader the naming says "tert" do you know why that is?
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:09 am
- Forum: *Alkanes
- Topic: Naming [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 93
- Views: 16618
Re: Naming [ENDORSED]
Are the pentyl and amyl in the course reader the same thing? If so, which one should we use for common naming, or does it matter?
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 2:31 pm
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: 2/24/17 Bruincast
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3449
Re: 2/24/17 Bruincast
Did you guys get any response ??? It still has the wrong lecture up.
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 2:20 pm
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Midterm Winter 2017
- Replies: 87
- Views: 21016
Re: Midterm Winter 2017
Why was the change of entropy of the outside greater than the inside on the midterm question?
- Mon Feb 13, 2017 11:35 pm
- Forum: Administrative Questions and Class Announcements
- Topic: Midterm Winter 2017
- Replies: 87
- Views: 21016
Re: Midterm Winter 2017
FOR QUESTION 1a ON MIDTERM FOR WINTER 2016. WHY ARE MOLES BEING IGNORED IN THE EQUATION?
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 11:13 pm
- Forum: Heat Capacities, Calorimeters & Calorimetry Calculations
- Topic: Question on q=nC(change in)T
- Replies: 2
- Views: 879
Re: Question on q=nC(change in)T
For #5 on quiz 1...what are the differences for parts a,b, and c. I understand the formula, but not how it changes
- Thu Jan 26, 2017 6:52 pm
- Forum: Phase Changes & Related Calculations
- Topic: Course Reader Quizzes
- Replies: 1
- Views: 518
Course Reader Quizzes
Are there answers anywhere to the quizzes in the back of the course reader?
- Sun Jan 22, 2017 8:31 pm
- Forum: Reaction Enthalpies (e.g., Using Hess’s Law, Bond Enthalpies, Standard Enthalpies of Formation)
- Topic: Ideal Gas
- Replies: 2
- Views: 745
Ideal Gas
I was doing problems in the book and I do not get how they get the ( 5/2)R and (3/2)R ....... I know that R is the gas constant, but how do they get the coefficients
- Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:15 pm
- Forum: Phase Changes & Related Calculations
- Topic: Thermochemistry
- Replies: 1
- Views: 385
Thermochemistry
Why does the path taken not matter for state properties?
- Sat Dec 03, 2016 5:55 pm
- Forum: Calculating pH or pOH for Strong & Weak Acids & Bases
- Topic: Ice Table Variables
- Replies: 1
- Views: 546
Ice Table Variables
How small does Ka have to be to make one able to approximate the x in the denominator?
- Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:48 pm
- Forum: Wave Functions and s-, p-, d-, f- Orbitals
- Topic: Elecrons
- Replies: 2
- Views: 593
Elecrons
Do electrons everr collide with one another since ones occupying the same orbital are spin paired .??
- Sat Dec 03, 2016 1:40 pm
- Forum: Acidity & Basicity Constants and The Conjugate Seesaw
- Topic: Weak Acids and Bases
- Replies: 2
- Views: 564
Weak Acids and Bases
When we do the ice table and for the reactants at equilibrium, it is usually a value of like (0.2-x).... why are we able to ignore that x value???
- Fri Nov 18, 2016 10:06 pm
- Forum: Lewis Acids & Bases
- Topic: Lewis vs Bronsted
- Replies: 3
- Views: 911
Lewis vs Bronsted
I am confused on the concept of lewis acids and bases vs bronsted acids and bases.....can someone help me define how to figure out which is which?
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:08 am
- Forum: Ideal Gases
- Topic: Chemical equilibrium [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1881
Chemical equilibrium [ENDORSED]
If the reaction is favored in the forward direction, will it ever be able to be favored in the reverse direction??
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:07 am
- Forum: Ideal Gases
- Topic: Chemical equilibrium
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1129
Chemical equilibrium
Is there only one side to chemical equilibrium? What I mean is that one a chemical reaction reaches equilibrium will it always stay there??
- Fri Oct 28, 2016 11:20 pm
- Forum: Lewis Structures
- Topic: Expanded Octets
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1399
Expanded Octets
How to elements in the 3rd period like Sulfur have an expanded octet? I know the 3d orbital is part of it, but how is this possible if 3d is I the 4th period??
- Sat Oct 22, 2016 7:38 pm
- Forum: Sigma & Pi Bonds
- Topic: Hybridization
- Replies: 3
- Views: 736
Hybridization
In the quiz preparations, it asks a lot about hybridizations. I looked up answers for the definition of it, but I'm still confused. Does anyone know a simple/easy definition to understand?
- Fri Oct 14, 2016 11:20 pm
- Forum: Hybridization
- Topic: Quantum Numbrrs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 573
Quantum Numbrrs
Is there a trick to quantum numbers, or do you just have to memorize them? Also why does the d-orbital not follow the pattern?
- Fri Oct 07, 2016 11:07 pm
- Forum: Properties of Electrons
- Topic: Electon Orbitals
- Replies: 2
- Views: 729
Electon Orbitals
Since quantum mechanics has proven to be more accurate than Bohr's models on electron orbitals, should I disregard Bohr's model, or can it still be useful for another topic?
- Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:36 pm
- Forum: Photoelectric Effect
- Topic: Wavelength vs. Photons [ENDORSED]
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1297
Wavelength vs. Photons [ENDORSED]
I understand the visual of a wavelength in terms of light, but I don't get the concept of a photon. Is it a particular property of light or is it just like a measurement of the energy of light. Basically, I would like to know the definition of a photon? Also Dr. Lavelle said that they stopped measur...