2011-03-23, 12:53 AM
Okay, so, I am taking Chemistry 1 (High School), and we're doing Stoichiometry. Problem is, I have no clue what we're doing. I literally cannot stay awake in that class. The teacher is one of those that puts you to sleep. I have basically missed every lesson on it and am asking friends in class for help, but now they won't give it to me, nor will the teacher. The textbook sucks for this kind of thing. Wish math-related stuff was done like my math book where it shows the method, some examples, and then has you practice, rather than a wall of text. Not sure how to google this stuff, either, seeing as we're just doing the basics, not the in-depth stuff I'd find if I wiki'd it.
Basically, we've covered Limited(ing?) Reactants (not sure of this), how to calculate how much of a reactant is required to produce x amount of a product (I know this, friends at least taught me that part), and one other thing I'll check tomorrow that I don't know seeing as I followed what my friend's told me to do and got it wrong on the quiz, costing me half of the points
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If possible, is there a nice way to do this without dimensional analysis? I hate that method so much, and the teacher's finally accepted that, but gives me all-or-nothing credit unless I use it (she used to just hand me 0's).
If needed, I can give some examples tomorrow.
Basically, we've covered Limited(ing?) Reactants (not sure of this), how to calculate how much of a reactant is required to produce x amount of a product (I know this, friends at least taught me that part), and one other thing I'll check tomorrow that I don't know seeing as I followed what my friend's told me to do and got it wrong on the quiz, costing me half of the points
.If possible, is there a nice way to do this without dimensional analysis? I hate that method so much, and the teacher's finally accepted that, but gives me all-or-nothing credit unless I use it (she used to just hand me 0's).
If needed, I can give some examples tomorrow.