Chem 11 – Class Starter

1. Form groups of 3-42. Collect a whiteboard from the back of the room and

white board pens and an eraser from the front3. Wait quietly for instructions

Chem 11 – Class Starter

Work in groups to complete the following Unit

Conversion problems Make sure multiple people have pens and are

contributing to the process If you are not contributing, be reflective as to why.

Ask yoursel…, “do I know how to do this?” I will ask groups to hold up their boards to show the

class what they have done

Unit Conversions

A rectangle has dimensions 2.565 cm by 6.4 cm. Determine the perimeter of this rectangle in km.

Answer: 1.9 x 10-4 km

Q1

A Pringles chips cylinder has a volume of 500. mL. If Connor buys 12 cylinders of chips, what volume of chips is he eating in liters?

Answer: 6.00 L

Q2

Convert 4.001g/m3 to kg/cm3

Answer: 4.001 x 10-9 kg/cm3

Q3

A barometer measuring atmospheric pressure reads 27.0 inches of mercury. Determine this pressure in unit of kPa. (1 inch mercury = 0.033atm, 1atm = 101.3kPa).

Answer: 90. kPa

Q5

Light travels at 3.0 x 108 m/s. A robot vehicle is travelling on the surface of Mars while Mars and Earth are at their closest approach of 7.83 x 107

km. At this distance, how many minutes will it take a digital signal travelling at the speed of light to go from Earth to Mars to reach the robot?

Answer: 4.4 minutes

Q5

On St. Patrick’s day, the Irish Heather pub in gastown sells a total of 6500 bottles of beer from 5 pm to midnight. If each beer has a volume of 350.0 mL, determine the volume of beer sold in pints/minute. (1L = 2.1134 pints).

Answer: 11.45 pints/min

Q6

Suppose 1 dip = 6 dops, 1 dop = 8 daps, 1 tick = 13 tocks, and 1 tock = 10 tacks.

Convert 21.1 dips/tack2 into dops/tock2

Ans: 12600 dops/tock2

Q7

If your teacher has been alive for 998,971,870 seconds what year and month was he born in?

Q8

http://www.brainbashers.com/howold.asp?post=Y

How old are you in sec/min/hrs/days?

Please collect the YOULearn #3 from the front of the room YOULearn #3: Balancing Equations + Predicting Products Again, YOULearn’s cover concepts you have look at in

previous classes (in this case EXTENSIVELY in Science 10)

Note: You will have time to work on this next class I would recommend attempting each section and bringing

your questions to next class

YOULearn #3