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This Blog is intended for students that are learning AS and A2 Chemistry at Marlborough School.
Information will be posted on this blog to help you with your learning, including syllabus and learning objectives, home learning tasks, suggested reading materials and useful links to secondary sites.
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Have fun. Hope it helps.
Mr Eve
Monday 11 June 2007
Practical Exam Thoughts
Remember this? A practical exam all set up and ready to go! What was it like?
I thought it was good, it really wasn't hard to follow the instructions and carry out the practical. The one thing i dislike about titration is that people's color perception is different so your,(Mr Eve),perception of what is blue could be different from what i think is blue, so results could be innacurate from this.
How dark a blue were they looking for?
How would you carry out the practical if you were color blind?
This is a good question and sometimes one of the things that needs to be considered when selecting an indicator. Usually the end point is measured when there is a distinct colour change so just when it turned blue in the case of our practical. Colour perception a colour blindness may indeed play a part. Are there machines that can do this for us?
The practical exam was the hardest exam i have ever sat! :D the actual practical was ok but i mucked all the calculations up..i think i just need more practice.
The fun paper, i feel exactly like suz on this one, the practical was all good, it was da paper that we got with it. even though weve learnt moles about a million times, its just wen to use the right equations confuse me!
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You Might Be a Chemist if...
you carry your lab safety goggles around with you at all times, just in case...
you don't drink water, you drink H2O.
you start disagreeing with movies and TV shows on scientific aspects.
you carry a base solution around with you at all times, just in case one of those freak Hydrochloric acid spills happen.
you become very agitated when people refer to air as Oxygen, and proceed to list all of the components of air.
instead of writing ozone you write O3.
you start referring to the smell of nail polish remover as an acetone smell.
you no longer ask for Tylenol, you ask for acetaminophen.
you actually enjoy going to Chemistry class.
you think a mole is a unit of amount, rather than a small furry animal in your lawn.
you pronounce unionized as "un-ion-ized", instead of "union-ized".
you wash your hands before you go to the bathroom.
you start explaining the condensation of water vapour every time your soda can has water drops and people think water is coming out of the can.
4 comments:
I thought it was good, it really wasn't hard to follow the instructions and carry out the practical. The one thing i dislike about titration is that people's color perception is different so your,(Mr Eve),perception of what is blue could be different from what i think is blue, so results could be innacurate from this.
How dark a blue were they looking for?
How would you carry out the practical if you were color blind?
Andy
Andy,
This is a good question and sometimes one of the things that needs to be considered when selecting an indicator. Usually the end point is measured when there is a distinct colour change so just when it turned blue in the case of our practical. Colour perception a colour blindness may indeed play a part. Are there machines that can do this for us?
Mr Eve
The practical exam was the hardest exam i have ever sat! :D the actual practical was ok but i mucked all the calculations up..i think i just need more practice.
The fun paper, i feel exactly like suz on this one, the practical was all good, it was da paper that we got with it. even though weve learnt moles about a million times, its just wen to use the right equations confuse me!
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