Jan 15, 2024 | Acid-Base, AP, AP TOPIC 07, AP TOPIC 08, Equilibrium |
The annual student struggle with acid-base chemistry usually revolves around questions that deal with weak acids and bases. If you pause to think about that for a moment, the difficulties are actually centered around equilibrium rather than acid and base chemistry....
Feb 11, 2015 | AP, AP TOPIC 08, Big Idea 2 |
A question came up on the College Board’s AP chemistry discussion group recently that I have seen many times before (including many variations of the same), and that often confuses students. It usually looks something like this; The fact that the nitrogen-to-oxygen...
Nov 13, 2010 | AP TOPIC 08, Miscellaneous |
Interesting article on a new approach; http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2010/November/03111001.asp
Nov 26, 2008 | AP, AP TOPIC 01, AP TOPIC 02, AP TOPIC 03, AP TOPIC 04, AP TOPIC 05, AP TOPIC 06, AP TOPIC 07, AP TOPIC 08, AP TOPIC 09, AP TOPIC 10, AP TOPIC 11, AP TOPIC 12, AP TOPIC 13, AP TOPIC 14, AP TOPIC 15, AP TOPIC 16, AP TOPIC 17, Applied Practice AP Chemistry Series, Miscellaneous |
In conjunction with Applied Practice, Dynamic Wordworks and Series Editor David Emmerson, I have written a series of AP Chemistry materials aimed at AP exam preparation in the classroom. The books are categorized into a series of topics and consist of AP style...
Nov 23, 2008 | AP, AP TOPIC 08, Big Idea 2 |
Following this post at the end of last month, I wanted to add some more notes about formal charge and Lewis structures, and their use on the AP exam. This question seems to come up a lot on the AP listerv and in my email inbox. Formal charge is certainly overused as a...
Oct 26, 2008 | AP, AP TOPIC 08 |
I was recently asked the following question by a student from Rhode Island. This type of question comes up a lot, and I thought it would be worthwhile flagging it for general consumption. Here’s the original question; ……in class on Friday we students...
