1.080  Envir Chemistry & Biology

Dear 1.080/1.107 participants,

For your presentations on Tuesday, we will have powerpoint projectors and overhead projectors available for use in showing your work.  You might want to (1) motivate your investigation with a slide or two on "what is the problem", (2) focus the audience by explaining what your project's particular objective(s) were given this problem, (3) show something (e.g. pictures or sampling, animals, flow chart showing sequence of methods used, etc.) about your group's activities, (4) provide figures demonstrating your results with stat's/controls/standards, (5) show calculations that help the audience see how you use and interpret your observations, and (6) wrap it all up with slide(s) describing the implications of your findings, what you conclude, and/or what should be done next.  End by giving copious thanks (to Sheila, Kyle, Dave).  Hopefully, most of the pictures/figures/tables can be captured from the same files you use on your posters.

Also, we need to collect your laboratory notebooks.  Please be sure to bring them with you on Tuesday.

I will be in lab at 1 today in case anyone needs advice...

thx, Phil Gschwend

MONDAY POSTER PRINTING SCHEDULE-

*Please refer to the handout for file conversion instructions. 

*Your punctuality will help keep us on schedule.  

*Bring your flash drive to the west side of the "cubicle farm" on the second floor of building 48...

8am                        Caroline and Carly

9:30am                   Kim and Isaac

11am                      Emily, Tracey, and Adam

12:30pm                Ivy and Connie

2:30pm                  Fatima and Aaron

4pm                       Tharu and Paul

5:30pm                  Laurie and Kelsie

Hi all,

Posters should be completed and converted to pdfs by Monday, 4/10.  Please follow the instructions for pdf conversion carefully (see handout from today).  If you didn't receive a handout, there are some extras in a blue folder on my desk in 48-212 or on Stellar.

I will be printing all day Monday and need to schedule a time for each group to hand deliver their poster pdf file to me (on a thumb drive) and preview/double check the file before we start the ~1 hour printing process. You don't have to stay for the printing, just the previewing, which should take <15min.

Please email me (griffdr@mit.edu) tomorrow with your first three choices for Monday time slots: 

8am
10:30am
11am
12:30pm
2:30pm
4pm
5:30pm

Cheers,
Dave

Hi all,

Apologies for my units abuse/confusion in recitation today.  Below is the loss rate from the waterfall (in m3 air/hr) calculated in a single dimensional analysis step, explicitly distinguishing L(air) from L(water).  It's: water flow / Henry's Law const * RT, with a L->m3 conversion.

Email if you have any questions.

Jesse Kroll



600 L(water)/hr
*
mol / (1.25e-3 atm * L(water) )
*
0.08206 L(air) atm / (mol K)
*
298 K
*
m3(air) / 1000 L(air)
=
12000 m3(air)/hr

Dear 1.080 participants,

PROJECTS:  tomorrow (Friday April 23) we will be ramping up your project activities.  As time for the projects is quite short (see the syllabus!), please come to class with specific  questions or activities with which we can help you.   For those of you intending to use/measure chemicals, be sure you come prepared to tell us what you need!  It can take weeks, sometimes, to get specific substances, so we need to be collecting all the necessary reagents, labware, etc. ASAP!

We'll see you all tomorrow at 1 PM in 48-308, and we can move to 48-109 as needed.

TESTS: in order to maximize your understandings of the materials on test #2, I will run a recitation reviewing the test next Tuesday at noon.

Phil Gschwend