Unit Exam

Friday's test went pretty well, I do say. It might've been a smidgen more difficult than the quiz as I was a bit uneasy on a couple questions. Some questions asked about acidity and alkalinity, which I didn't really know how to answer, so I guessed on those. Other than that, the majority of the test was a no-brainer. I feel great on how I did.

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Feels good knowing the chemistry behind these beautiful fireworks

Overall, this unit has probably been one of my favorites as the concepts have not been difficult and they are quite interesting to study. I actually enjoyed doing electron configuration problems.

Periodic Trends Lecture

The final installment of the electronic structure unit is periodic trends. The periodic table follows a couple of trends that can provide details about various atoms (only S and P block atoms though). The different trends were a bit hard to differentiate and remember what each one specifies, but I think with some more studying, they will be easily remembered. I'm feeling pretty good about the test on Friday, but I still definitely need to look over this lecture, which I believe may be the hardest lesson of the unit (but still not that difficult).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_trends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK-WTYncldA