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The student and I reviewed Redox reactions, balancing Redox equations, standard reduction potentials and voltaic cells. He seems to be fairly confident with most of this material. .

The student and I covered solution chemistry and chemical kinetics. We discussed the thermodynamic nature of solution formation, as well as colligative properties. We continued on to cover the details of kinetics and kinetic calculations, including the Arrhenius equation, the rate law, and the equilibrium substitution method of calculation.

Last night, I met with the student to review chemistry. She's in her second semester of college chemistry (taking it over the summer) and has her second test on Tuesday. She definitely has more confidence with this new teacher's style and the tests seem more straight forward. Our review for this second test consisted of talking through homework problems that were difficult and then working through the problems on the practice test posted. She still needed to review the last chapter covering acids and bases. She's a great student and wonderful to tutor due to her willingness to speak up when she doesn't understand and her dedication to figuring out the problem.

Today we covered equilibrium, the ideal gas law, Le Chatelier's principle, intermolecular forces, and solutions. We also worked on a few problems from her textbook. The student is doing very well and we will meet again in one week.

This was a good session where we applied many of our new concepts. We went through sections of the student's Biology packet for her final. We will have 1-2 more sessions before the final this coming weekend.

We covered workbook, homework, and practice exam questions in this session. Topics looked at were enthalpy and entropy changes associated with changes of state, reversibility of processes, and Gibbs free energy. The concepts of changes of entropy of the system with regards to enthalpy were also touched on.