I Am Happy That You Are Enrolled in AP Chemistry Next Year
Dear Birmingham Scientists:
I am happy that you are enrolled in AP Chemistry next year.
There will be a lunchtime meeting for next year’s AP Chemistry class in Mr. Turner’s room F37 at 11:45 on Wednesday 5/25. Bring your lunch.
It is important that you attend, as I will be handing out your summer assignment.
Mr. Turner
Chem Joke: What did element 83 say when it was asked for its electron configuration?
“It’s none of your bismuth!”
Dear Birmingham Scientists:
I am happy that you are enrolled in AP Chemistry next year.
There will be a lunchtime meeting for next year’s AP Chemistry class in Mr. Turner’s room F37 at 11:45 on Wednesday 5/25. Bring your lunch.
It is important that you attend, as I will be handing out your summer assignment.
Mr. Turner
Chem Joke: What did element 83 say when it was asked for its electron configuration?
“It’s none of your bismuth!”
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Summer writing assignment
In AP Chem we will be doing a lot of writing……
Write one page to an in-coming 10th grade chem student explaining what this diagram is telling us (in your own words)
- What do the axes represent?
- What do the red and blue lines represent? How are they different?
- Why do the lines have the shape that they do? (a ‘bell curve’)?
- What is the relationship between the area beneath the blue line vs the area beneath the red line?
- What does the vertical line labeled ‘Activation Energy’ represent?
- What do the shaded areas beyond the “Activation Energy’ line represent?
- What is temperature, anyways?
- In conclusion, what is this graph telling us?
AP Chemistry Summer Assignments 2016
I am happy that you have enrolled in AP Chemistry next school year. I am here to help you prepare for the AP test you will be taking next May.
The AP Chem test will have two sections:
Section I: Multiple Choice: 60 Questions | 90 Minutes | 50% of Exam Score
Section II: Free Response: 7 Questions | 105 Minutes | 50% of Exam Score
* calculators are allowed on section II, but not on section I
To prepare over the summer, there are a number of things I am asking you to do:
- First, email me at m.turner@ birminghamcharter.com. Please do this ASAP so that I have your email should I need to contact you over the summer
- Read the AP Chemistry course overview. Become familiar with what we are up against. This class will not be easy!
- Work the questions on the AP Math Prep worksheet. Write answers clearly on a separate sheet of paper. I will give you 2 sheets of graph paper for the graphing questions.
- Write a one page response to the Summer Writing Assignment.
- Study the Charges, Names and Formulas of Common Ions sheet.
Email me if you have any questions. Items # 3 and 4 are due at our first class meeting (credit/no-credit) (school starts on August 8th).
Have a wonderful summer. Try to do something enriching (i.e. something you could write about in a college personal statement)
Mr. Turner
Chem Joke:
Q: Why does a hamburger have a lower energy than a steak?
A: Because it's in the ground state.