Jan 22, 2016 | AP, Big Idea 2 |
An age old problem that I’ve become a little weary of addressing, so let’s clear this up really quickly and really simply. No biologists, breaking bonds does NOT ‘release energy’, and here’s why. Bond breaking is an endothermic process...
Nov 27, 2015 | AP, Big Idea 2 |
I’ve just finished grading a test on bonding done by my AP students, and as usual, there are several issues relating to the phraseology and wording of their answers that need to be corrected. I’ve addressed these problems previously here (and you should...
Sep 9, 2015 | 2013-14 Curriculum, AP, Big Idea 1, Big Idea 2, Big Idea 3, Big Idea 4, Big Idea 5, Big Idea 6, College Board |
I recently re-visited the Wordles that I first produced in June of 2013 for the original versions of my AP Chemistry notes for Big Ideas 1-6. You can read about them here. Before I update those Wordles again to reflect the newer versions of the notes more than 2 years...
Mar 18, 2015 | AP, Big Idea 4, Site News, Subscriber Updates
The UNIT 4 notes have been tweaked a little, correcting a couple of typos and amending a couple of sentences for clarity. The AP Worked Answers for 1996, 3 and 1998, 8 have been updated.
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...