BALANCING EQUATIONS

BALANCING EQUATIONS

• the process or trial and error and the steps that you have to go through to balance chemical equations.

BALANCING EQUATIONS

• To start, keep track of the number of atoms on both sides of the equation
• Then, add coefficients to either side to get the same amount of atoms on both sides

BALANCING EQUATIONS

• After that, just use trial and error to balance the equation

QUESTION OF THE DAY

• What is the chemical formula on the left of the equation called?
• What is the chemical formula on the right of the equation called?

ANSWERS

• Reactants
• Products

PROBLEMS

• _Al + _O2 ---> _Al2O3
• _Fe8 + _S8 ---> _Fe8S
• Numbers = subscripts

ANSWERS

• 4,3,2
• 8,1,8

REAL WORLD EXAMPLES

• The people who use chemical equations the most are chemists, but it can be used in everyday activities
• A real common example is cooking
• If the recipe is 3 cups of milk and 2 eggs, and you want to double it, you balance the ingredients and come up with 6 cups of milk and 4 eggs

VIDEO

• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oDVswHfZJzY

BIBICAL INTEGRATION

• Balancing equations is like balancing your life to become more Christlike
• Sometimes you have to add things to your life to fix mistakes that cannot be taken away
• You could add more prayer time, time with God, etc... to your day

SOURCES

• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oDVswHfZJzY
• Physical Science Student Text by: R. Terrance Egolf and Rachel Santopietro