Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Announcements:
- There is a special APPLES Service Learning section of this
course (section 002). If you are planning to do a community
service project that satisfies the new Experiential Education
requirement (at least 30 hours of service), then please let me know
TODAY so that I can move you from Section 001 to Section 002.
APPLES forms are available for this commitment.
Assignments:molecule is defined as a sufficiently stable electrically neutral group of at least two atoms in a definite arrangement held together by strong chemical bondshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_compound
Read Chapter 3 before class on Friday, and come prepared to
answer questions and discuss.- Memorize the SI prefixes and
names for powers of ten from at
least billion to billionth.
Class Discussion: (Answers and solutions are on a separate webpage)
- Chapter 2 - Atoms
- Clicker questions
- Video: Powers of Ten
- Discuss: In Fig. 2.12, the length scales range from 10^25
m down
to 10^-25 m, with human size (~1 m) right in the middle. Is this
just
chance, or is there a reasonable explanation for this occurrence?
Minute Paper: Answer the
following two questions on a piece of paper and hand in for today's
Class Participation credit.
1) What is the most important thing you
learned from today's class?
2) What questions or concerns do you have?