HON CHEMISTRY: Great start to a new chapter! Here is our discussion of the history of the periodic table and a short intro to each of the blocks of the periodic table.
Now – can you channel your inner Mendeleev and organize the unto elements into their own periodic table? Today you started the Create a Table Activity – check your syllabus to see when you’ll finish it and when it’s due.
PHYSICS: Cool thing, standing waves! Can you think of some applications of constructive and destructive interference?
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CHEMISTRY: So ordinarily it looks like just any old hunk of rock, but this is a picture of uranium ore under UV light. Pretty cool, huh?!? Here’s our beginning discussion of the unique properties of radioactive nuclides. And as a bonus, this vodcast has a head start at looking at nuclear equations. Woohoo!!