Science Through the Eyes of a Wolverine

—On a warm and sunny day in Philadelphia you start your new job for a chemical research company. Your boss is kind of a jerk, but the pay is good and the benefits are better. As you were gazing out the window in a dream world, Dr. Smith comes up and asks you to carry out your first experiment. It calls for a reaction with 100.0mL of 2.0M silver nitrate and 85mL of 3.10M HCl. He points to a table full of chemicals and grunts—you assume he means to use these chemicals. So you do. There is a bottle of 12.0M HCl and a jar of AgNO3 solid crystals.

1.How would you prepare each solution (AgNO3 and HCl)

2.What is the balanced equation?

3.What is the net ionic equation?

4.How much solid product would be made in this reaction?

 Here they are!

Question #1

OK, here we go again. I think that many of you missed the point of last week’s question. It makes me feel good to know that so many of you believe in God regardless of what others may think or say. Many of you even tried to prove His existence. This, however, was not the question. The question is basically this…

Let us assume that God does exist–not that we have to prove that He does–He already exists. If this is true, does it matter whether a person believes He exists? Will He still exist even if Billy Bob or Mohinder has never heard of Him? Does it matter if they are atheists? Does their belief change the fact that He exists? Can God exist only for those who believe in Him or does He always exist–if we already assumed that He exists?

Don’t try to convince me that He does. I liked all your responses of how you tried to prove His existence, but right now, we already are assuming that He does.

The other side…

If there is no God, does it matter how much I believe that He exists? Does my belief in God make Him exist? Again don’t tell me the Religion answer. Tell me what your answer to this question is.

This brings us to the 2nd part of the question…

If pollution or global warming or the misuse of technology exists, does it matter if I believe it? Don’t give me your opinion on these categories–you are just giving me your position. That is not the question. Let us assume that global warming exists. Does it matter that I think that global warming is a hoax? Does it matter that the reports I read tell me that GW is silly. If it really is true, does my opinion change this?

Also, let us say that GW is not real. Does it matter that I firmly believe that GW is happening at an alarming rate. If it really isn’t happening, does my opinion change this?

Next part…

Can both opinions be right? Can you ask two people whether or not God exists, get two opposite views, and both be right? Can a person believe in something very strongly and be wrong–or–is truth based on how strongly you believe in something? Ask yourself the same for environmental issues. Can two opposing views both be correct?

Finally…

Restate Acts 1:8. How does this commission apply to the questions above? Or doesn’t it? Why or why not?

Question 2:

What is fractional crystallization? 

Question 1 

OK, this week’s question gets a little real. You may not answer this question with a couple sentences of what you think I want to hear. Remember, you don’t even know what that is. I am purposely not giving you a lot of what I think so that you can think for yourselves. You will not be marked down for any opinion that disagrees with whatever I believe. What I want is your thoughts—not mine given back to me. I already know what I think. And believe me, it is pretty spectacularJ

Think about this…

If God exists and a man (woman) does not believe that He exists or does not feel they have enough information to believe He exists, or have never heard of Him; does God still exist?

On to another notion…

If there is a problem with world pollution and misuse of technology, but a man (woman) never hears about this, doesn’t want to believe it or doesn’t have enough facts to believe it is true, is it still true?

Can these statements be both true and false? Or is it one or the other?

What is the role of the person that knows that the answer is “yes” to these questions? Or that the answer is “no” to these questions? What are they to do? Keep it to themselves?

If they should not keep it to themselves, what should they be doing? If the answer for you is that you believe the answer to either of these questions is “Yes” or “No”, what are you doing?

Can we apply Acts 1:8 to each of these first two statements? How?

Question 2:

Look at last week’s question #2 for this one.

Slide Show

The problem done in class today (2/3/09) is on slide 55.

Question 1… 

Imagine you are the owner and president of a great and properous factory in a very nice community. The people of the community know and love you. You have been asked to attend many functions in the neighborhoods, etc.

You have 100 employees working for you and they earn $100 per year. (i.e. you pay them all a grand total of $10,000 per year from the business). Your company brings in $20,000 per year and you pocket $10,000 for yourself. You have gotten accustomed to the finer things in life and spend all $10,000 in a year, every year.

Unfortunately, the government informs you that you have been neglectful to the environment and you are being charged $5000 per year for clean up costs and you will need to introduce a new enviromental cleaning practice which will cost you $1000 per year every year to keep your business running.

What do you do? Do you cut back your lifestyle, cut jobs and put people in the unemployment line or a little of both?

Be very detailed in your response of what you will do and why you will do it.

Questions #2…

Write the net ionic equation for the reaction between calcium acetate and sodium phosphate. If there is no reaction, then write NR.

Question #1–What does the Bible state about our stewardship towards God’s Earth? Are we following God’s plan for our Earth?

Question #2–Explain the factors that affect the solubility rate of solids in a solvent (like water).

Any  questions  for Monday’s Quest?

Honors Chemistry Lab Info honors-lab-help.doc

Honors Chemistry HW

chemical-equations-stoichiometry.pdfClick for notes.