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The
PLE for Wednesday, March 26th is ready.HELP
Session. Tuesday, March 25th at 7:00 pm in PS141. This
week in laboratory we are doing Experiment #12: Preparation of Aspirin and
Oil of Wintergreen. This is a fun experiment...you get to make aspirin! Check
out the pre-lab.I've
got some HELP for PS9 available. Check it out.Kacey
discovered an error in the anwsers to 15.13 in our textbook. The answers should
be a) K = 8.93: b) K = .0125 c) K = 79.7All
grades are now available. If there is anything funky (the computer says you
did not take the exam and you know you did...do not panic!) contact Dr. G
early Thursday afternoon.The
class average on Exam II is 56. A few points down from our first exam average...so
not too bad! We have a tie for the highest exam. Stephen Tidwell and Barkley
Puitt both earned 95's....CONGRATULATIONS Steve and Barkley! Lots of swag
on Friday. The
overall course average is 64%. This is most excellent. The average I would
like at the end of the semester is 65%. We're at 64% and we have not dropped
any PSs or labs. So on the average everyone is doing great.This
week in laboratory M, W and F students will do a different activity compared
to the T and R students. Please check your Personal Web Page What's Up in
Lab to see exactly what you are doing. I have posted information for the M
- W sections. I will post the info for the R and F sections after they meet.
I distributed the laboratory experiments for next week in lecture on wednesday,
February 26th. If you did not get a copy check your Personal Web Page What's
Up in Lab link. You can also check the Syllabus link on our main page.New
grades are posted on your personal web page. A few TAs have reported grades
for the Freezing point lab, and one TA has submitted scores for the cation
Qualitative Analysis. Check with your TA if you believe any scores are not
recorded correctly. I think all the corrections to Exam I have been made.
If not let me and your TA know.The
class average on this exam was 60!!!!! The highest grade was a 96 by Todd
Mollet! CONGRATULATIONS Todd! Way to go. Lots of swag on Friday. I have some
new stuff from my trip to Washington! I'm working on the grades database and
the software for the personal page. So another 30 minutes and grades will
be up.A
few students are having some problems with the PLE. The message you receive
is " There is a major problem. The PLE database does not recognize you.
Your responses have been recorded into a SCRATCH database. Note the time you
did this PLE and Contact Dr. Gelder." Inorder to diagnose this problem
I need to better understand what you were doing at the time. So if you get
this message send me an e-mail. I'm saving the responses to a SCRATCH file
but there are NO names on the responses. How to avoid this problem?! Before
doing the a PLE be absolutely sure that you see your name on your Personal
web Page at the top of the left hand frame, and you see your name in the PLE
form itself. If either are missing DO NOT DO THE PLE until you have re-logged
in to your Personal Web page. The issue has to do with how much time you are
on your personal web page and nothing is happening. If you have been logged
on to your personal web page for a while, and done nothing it may have timed
out, so it no longer knows who you are. Be careful before doing the PLE! This semester I want to try using personal
web pages. To take advantage of this new feature you will have to give me
a Secret Identification number or name. Go to the SID#/Name link in the left
frame and complete the information requested. After you have given me your
SID information you will be able to access your own personal CHEM 1515 Web
page through the Personal Page. The personal page will have information specifically
associated with you: grades, PLE's, homework, exams, plus other way cool stuff.
So get your SID set up now!
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Since this is the FIRST time I have tried to use the Personal Web Page concept there are going to be problems. You must e-mail me, or contact me when you have problems so I can solve them quickly. Hang in there, it is going to be FUN! this semester.
Here are this semester's laboratory sections.
Lab Section # |
Lab Day |
Time |
TA |
Lab Room |
1 |
Monday |
1:30 pm - 4:20 pm |
Alan Piquette |
PS260 |
2 |
Tuesday |
8:30 am - 11:20 am |
Adriana Moncada |
PS259 |
3 |
Tuesday |
8:30 am - 11:20 am |
Eugueni Kadossov |
PS260 |
4 |
Tuesday |
12:30 pm - 3:20 pm |
Eugueni Kadossov |
PS259 |
5 |
Tuesday |
12:30 pm - 3:20 pm |
Lisa Reilly |
PS260 |
6 |
Wednesday |
1:30 pm - 4:20 pm |
Alan Piquette |
PS260 |
7 |
Thursday |
8:30 am - 11:20 am |
Adriana Moncada |
PS259 |
8 |
Thursday |
8:30 am - 11:20 am |
Eric Wall |
PS260 |
9 |
Friday |
1:30 pm - 4:20 pm |
Andy Wang |
PS260 |
Check out the link to the web site for our
textbook (BLB). The link is near the top of the left frame on our web site.
Clicking on the link will take you to a page with an image of our textbook.
Near the top of the page is a dropdown menu listing the Chapters in the text.
Select a chapter and a page will be loaded for that chapter that contains
links to resources. If you would like some practice problems try the Problem
Soving Center. When the Problem Center page is load scroll down to the red
button under flexible questions. Select the Homework link. This will generate
a set of questions from the chapter. You will need a calculator.
Here is a very nice Periodic
Table that contains lots of physical properties and chemical properties
for the elements.
Our TAs for this semester (as of Monday, August 19, 2002) are;
Eugueni Kodossov (jenkad2000@yahoo.com)
Adriana Moncada (amoncad@okstate.edu)
Alan Piquette (piquett@okstate.edu)
Lisa
Reilly (reillyl@okstate.edu)
Eric Wall (wallw@okstate.edu)
Andy Wang (awang@okstate.edu)
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