For those of you who didn’t see the comment, Karen Herbert tutors chemistry over in the Success Center.  Her tutoring hours for this spring are:

• Monday 10:30 am – 7:00 pm
• Wednesday & Thursday 8:30 am – 12 noon.

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Upcoming tests

• CHM 100:  Your next test will be Monday 11/7/2011.  This test will cover chapters 6, 7, 8, and section 15.4.
• CHM 110 sections 1 and 2:  Your next test will be Wednesday 11/2/2011.  This test will cover chapters 5 and 6.
• CHM 110 sections 3:  Your next test will be Thursday 11/3/2011.  This test will cover chapters 5 and 6.

CHM 110 Experiment 6

Your report for Experiment 6 is due the week of 10/31 – on whichever day of the week your lab normally meets.  To help you out a bit with the calculations, here are some notes on the experiment and a set of sample calculations for that experiment.

[CHM 110: Experiment 6 notes]

[CHM 110 Experiment 6: Sample calculation]

Use this as a guide, but remember to use your own data for your report!

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CHM 100 and CHM 110 – UPCOMING TESTS

• CHM 100:  Your next test will be a lecture test 2 on Wednesday 10/12 – covering chapters 4 and 5.
• CHM 110 01-02:  Your next test will be on Wednesday 10/12, covering chapters 2 (the equations part), 3 and 4.
• CHM 110 03:  Your next test will be on Thursday 10/13, covering chapters 3 and 4.

Need tutoring?

• If you need tutoring, see Karen Herbert’s comment by clicking the comments link.

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Here’s the shared data from CHM 110 Experiment 3B. These are the ratios of mass product / mass barium chloride dihydrate that you need to complete the table on page 74 and answer the questions on pages 75 and 76.  This is data for the Monday lab section (section 1)!

Ratio of (mass product / mass BaCl₂.2H₂O):

• 0.85354
• 0.84924
• 0.85147
• 0.85070
• 0.84806

The write-up for Experiment 3B (pages 71-76) is due at our next lab meeting. If you have any questions about either the calculations or the rest of the write-up, either come by my office or ask here in comments.

Here’s a handout that describes the calculation procedure for this experiment:  (It’s the same one that was on your desk when you came in to the lab.)

[CHM 110 Experiment 3B calculation notes]

I recommend that you use your TI-83 calculator or a spreadsheet to find the standard deviation the lab manual asks you to calculate.

FREE MONEY!!!

Now that I’ve got your attention, here’s something you should read from the financial aid office.  Quite a few foundations make scholarships available to FDTC students, but you can’t get a scholarship unless you apply!

Scholarship Application Procedures

Scholarships are made available to students through donations from individuals, businesses, industry, foundations, and private sources.  Applicants must have a minimum 2.50 cumulative grade point average to apply for a scholarship.  Students enrolled in Transitional Studies are not eligible to apply. All applicants must submit an FDTC Scholarship Application online no later than the deadline dates for priority consideration.

Scholarship recipients must complete all admissions requirements to FDTC.  Students must be pursuing a certificate, degree, or diploma unless otherwise specified by the donor.  Each semester, students enrolled for less-than 6 credit hours receive 1/2 of the scholarship amount.  Students enrolled in 6 or more credit hours receive the full scholarship amount.  Scholarship recipients that withdraw from the College, or transfer to another college, and decide not to return, will not have their scholarship automatically reinstated.

Scholarship deadlines are as follows:

• 2012 Spring Semester — October 31st

To be considered for scholarships administered by the FDTC Foundation, students must have appropriate test scores, high school records, and show potential academic and personal growth.  Recipients of scholarships are requested to respond in writing to the donor of the scholarship.  The FDTC Foundation will provide each recipient a FDTC Thank You Card, and the name and address of the donor of the scholarship.

The Drs. Bruce and Lee Allied Health Scholarship award is no longer automatically awarded for the 2nd year of study. Students wishing to be considered for their 2nd year of study must submit a new scholarship application, provided the student maintains a minimum 2.5 cumulative GPA in their Allied Health program for the terms since the scholarship was awarded.

Keep an eye on Irene this week.

Irene track, 8/22/11I

If Irene affects our classes in any way, I will let you know via this web site.

In case you need any extra help in CHM 100 or CHM 110, we have a chemistry tutor available in the Success Center this fall.  [Click the link here] – or follow the link in the sidebar for more information.

I have posted final grades for all sections of CHM 100 and CHM 111.  You may get your grades from these places:

1. [Desire2Learn].  You can see individual test grades and your numeric average on Desire2Learn (D2L), as well as your latter grade.  Grades are available on D2L now. If you would like a copy of all of your grades from the course as well as your numeric average, print them from D2L now.  You will only have access to this semester’s grades on D2L for a week or so – whether or not you are attending classes in the fall.
   
2. [WebAdvisor].  Webadvisor is your link to official FDTC data.  The grade on Webadvisor is your official grade, and will be the one recorded on your transcript.  WebAdvisor will only show your final letter grade, not your individual assignment grades or numeric average.  Grades will be available on WebAdvisor on Monday afternoon.

If you have any questions about your grade or if you wish to view your final (you don’t get to keep a copy of the final, sorry!), you may come by the office next week.  Please don’t call to ask about your grades, because I’m not allowed to discuss grades over the telephone!  You may e-mail me in Desire2Learn to ask about your grades, since Desire2Learn’s e-mail is a private messaging system which requires a password to log in.

A note on “extra credit”:  Most of your regular tests this semester had more than 100 points on them.  These points were “extra credit”, as was the fact that your final exam could replace your lowest test score.  In lab, your lowest report grade was also dropped.  In other words, your reported grade in D2L already includes all the “extra credit” you will receive in this course.  Any requests for additional “extra credit” will be ignored.

That said …

I hope you enjoyed chemistry this term, and I hope you now have some time to relax before fall semester starts!