Sunday, May 17, 2009

More Exam Review

Reading Scales (pages 23 - 26)
-be sure you can accurately read the scales on page 26 in the Lab Manual

Fundamental Quantities-know the UNITS (page 111)
-Length - know how to read a meter stick (pages 23-25)
-Mass - know how to read the EAB, know the Law of Conservation of Mass
-Time - know the law of the pendulum (L/T^2 :: 20/1)
-know how to use a proportion to calculate the length (L) of a pendulum or the period (T) of a pendulum

Volume and Area (pages 50-53)
-know the UNITS (page 111)
Know how to:
-find volume of regular and irregular objects
-find the area of rectangles, circles, triangles and other figures made of these shapes

Characteristic Properties-Boiling Pt, Melting Pt, Density, Solubility -be sure you know that Characteristic Properties are independent of the amount of substance present--(a drop of water boils at the same temperature as a large pot of water and 5 cc of water have the same density as 25 cc of water, etc. . .)