Air Bag Lab

Today was our airbag lab. Our class's runs went pretty well, everyone passed. To make up for the lack of failure, me and Ganon launched Operation Allahu Vinegar.  Our first test went pretty well, but the second test was pretty anticlimactic.

I thought this was Chemistry, not Government

Now this is becoming a doozy. In this unit, we need to know a bunch of gas laws. To review, we have:

Ideal Gas Law: Used to find missing variables in a problem; remember R = .0812

  PV = nRT

Charles's Law: The relationship between volume and temperature;

V1/T1 = V2/T2

Avogadro's Law: The relationship between volume and moles;

V1/n1 = V2/n2

Boyle's Law: The relationship between pressure and volume;

P1V1 = P2V2

Gas Laws Quiz

    Today was our Gas Laws quiz. I think I did okay, but there were a couple of questions I didn't know. I think I should have gone over the book passages alongside our notes, because the ones I wasn't so sure about were mostly conceptual.

Last Unit of the Year!

     Today we start our last unit of the year: Gas Laws. The first day's notes consisted of Boyle's Law: Basically, some really smart guy called Boyle figured out that volume and pressure have an inverse relationship (when keeping temp and moles constant). I don't think this unit is too bad so far, but then again, its only been one day.

Specific Heat of a Metal Lab

      Today, we did a lab where we had to determine the specific heat of a metal by heating it and measuring its change in temperature after dumping it in room temp water. I think me and Zuri did alright disregarding the fact that our percent error was over 200.

New Unit!

     Today we start our Unit on Energy and Phase Changes. Today's lecture was just over the difference between endothermic and exothermic reactions. I remember always getting the two confused in physical science, but I hope I don't get the two confused here.

The Silver Serpent Sails the Cyan Seas!

Unfortunately, I did not get a photo of the Silver Serpent (in all her glory), but I 

think this stock photo is pretty accurate as to what it looked like

     Finally, the day to test our put-put boats has come. Zuri and I came in with high hopes and left with only the bitter taste of defeat to torment our palate, like an apple not quite as ripe as the bosom from which biodiesel giveth and taketh away. Anyhow, congratulations to those who had speedy boats, and to those who had not quite as speedy boats.

     I dedicate this blog post to an underdog that will live on forever in our hearts:

  RIP SILVER SERPENT 2016-2016