A series of events on a cold winter’s day are used to introduce various concepts associated with solutions, including driving forces behind solution formation and colligative properties….Continue Reading Winter Woes
Categories: Chemistry
The Brominator
In this problem, students: learn to predict formulas for the products of “metal + nonmetal” reactions……Continue Reading The Brominator
Terror in the Toilet Bowl
…provides students with an opportunity (1) to learn how to derive the rate law of a mechanism from initial rate and concentration data, and (2) to learn what sort of information might be obtained from plotting concentration vs. time data from a kinetic experiment….Continue Reading Terror in the Toilet Bowl
Saving for a Rainy Day
…students must deal with concepts of heat and energy transfer, heat capacities, phase transitions and related enthalpy changes….Continue Reading Saving for a Rainy Day
Riverside’s Dilemma
…students encounter concepts in acid-base chemistry – e.g., weak and strong acids and bases, neutralization reactions, and related equilibrium calculations….Continue Reading Riverside’s Dilemma