Website

Check out this website for great links to helpful games on how to determine the number of protons, neutrons and electrons in an atom.

http://education.jlab.org/indexpages/index.php

The Element math game is particular helpful

Energy Use and Sustainability

What is the role between energy use and sustainability? Does more energy use automatically mean a country is less sustainable? Does money have any bearing (impact) on sustainability? Why do the factors mentioned (per capita energy, % income spent on food, etc.) indicate whether a country is more or less developed?

Carbon Dioxide and Fossil Fuels

What is the relationship between the burning of fossil fuels and the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere? How is surface temperature related to CO2 in the atmosphere? (How does CO2 cause an increase in temperature?)

Count Rumford

This question comes from Vivek.

What was the design of Count Rumford experiment?

(Post future questions as "New Posts")

Potential Questions

Everyone who has been posting comments and responses is welcome to post potential essay or application questions to the blog in order to help each other out. Everyone can help everyone else out by posting questions to the blog and allowing for comments to follow. When you post make sure that you are posting as a "New Post". I will post questions as well, but the goal is for everyone to help each other.

Energy "Lost"

How many calories of energy are "lost" by a 250mL sample of water that has a temperature decrease from 52 deg. Celsius to 24 deg. Celsius?

More Developed vs. Less Developed Nations

• What factors would you choose to determine whether a country is more developed or less developed?
• Are more developed countries more sustainable? Why or why not?
• What patterns do you notice between more developed countries and less developed?
  

Caloric vs. Kinetic

Which is more accepted? Why? What are the flaws with the theory that has been disproved? Where does it fall short?

Exam Information

Please post questions to each other regarding the exam

You may also visit Ms. Blume's weblog, blume8.blogspot.com

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Both of these are linked on the right hand side of the screen.