Reflective Blog #7

Reflective Blog #7

This week is actually a little longer than an actual week but that doesn't matter.  I am very thankful for the longer time to work on this week's blog.  We did a lot of learning and reviewing of the things we just learned because we had a unit test yesterday. On Monday we talked and white boarded about the relationship of temperature and volume.  Temperature directly affects volume and pressure if the number of particles remains the same, higher temperature means bigger volume so less pressure but the thermal energy also increases pressure. So it all depends on what's being increased and by what amount.  We also learned about PVTn tables because they are one of the easiest ways to solve PVTn problems.  If you use one of these tables the equation that you use the x -------- formula.  We also learned about the arrows, these tell us the affect of temperature. number of particles and volume on the pressure and that we should let this be our guide doing PVTn problems. One of the days we took 4th hour where are we now boards and fixed them up, gave them a little love, and added what we thought they had missed.  I really like this way of reflection as it reminds me of all the things that we did through the unit.

This was the board we worked on and 

We did many worksheets working on using the PVTn tables so we could master them before the test. We did lots of this kind of practicing where we would do one problem as a table and then we would present it to the class who would then ask any questions that they had such as why did you do it that way.  This is one of my favorite ways to study mostly because I really like hearing the stuff we learned.  Then the test, it wasn't very hard for me and I think that I will do very well but the last PVTn table I might have gotten wrong because I may have flipped the numbers on one of the line.

Some of the other things we did this week not connected to the upcoming test were working on the report for the PTVn labs.  This report is one of the harder assignments that you have given us and I plan on working on it a lot in the upcoming days so I can turn in my best work.  We also turned in our notebooks but since you didn't have us do anything until now you didn't grade them hard and I got full credit even if I don't think my notebook was full credit worthy.

Basically this week was learning for and studying  for the test we just took.  So the stuff we learned this week was basically how to use a PTVn and if I had to rate my understanding of the things we learned this week I say it's about 98% understood.  My participation wasn't stellar this week because Fedor was always trying to do everything himself with no group input.

We also watch iodine turn from a solid to a gas in a process called sublimation, which was cool.

Iodine gas