February 2007 - Posts

Extruder characteristics
28 February 07 05:04 PM | AaronSakulich | 0 Comments   

Friends, Extruder's screw is 18 inches long (one and one half the length of the foot of the king of England) and a mere 3/4ths of an inch in diameter. Convert it to the units of your preference and you will be able to complete the calculations portion Read More...

Fibres Lecture
22 February 07 03:33 PM | AaronSakulich | 0 Comments   

Friends, Here is a copy of Ms. Schiffman's polymers lecture. Enjoy! Aaron Read More...

Attachment(s): fiber%20class.pdf

Egg drop
18 February 07 01:00 PM | Caroline Schauer | 0 Comments   

We have got the greatest egg drop container! We will win on looks! Read More...

Homework #3
18 February 07 12:58 PM | Caroline Schauer | 0 Comments   

Sorry for the delay Read More...

Attachment(s): Homework 3_2007.doc

Extrusion slides
13 February 07 04:45 PM | Caroline Schauer | 0 Comments   

There are at least 3 classes of extrusion notes attached. Enjoy! Read More...

Attachment(s): 6. Extrusion_Part_I_2007.pdf

Lab 2 questions answered
12 February 07 06:23 PM | Caroline Schauer | 0 Comments   

1) What is the difference between t and t0? In the handout, it says in the procedure that t0 is the average time the solution took to reach the second point (step 8), yet it in the calculations section (step 1) it says t is the average flow time. Is t Read More...

MFI Lab
12 February 07 03:52 PM | AaronSakulich | 0 Comments   

Friends, Attached, please find the lab notes for the MFI lab that we have run the week of Feb 12. It is in the format of a word file. If your computer runs on some obscure Linux-type stuff, please let me know. Be seeing you, Aaron Read More...

Attachment(s): LAB-2-2005.doc

Heat transfer notes
06 February 07 12:24 PM | Caroline Schauer | 0 Comments   

Feb 6th notes Read More...

Attachment(s): heat transfer 2007.ppt

Lab report 1 instructions
05 February 07 05:43 PM | Caroline Schauer | 0 Comments   

Attached are the structures for the IR lab. In future www.sigmaaldrich.com is a great place to get chemical structures. What I need written up is 1) Nylon reaction (show structures), procedure/observations, and IR 2) PMMA reaction (show structures), procedure/observations, Read More...

Attachment(s): Lab 3.doc

Viscosity Lab Data
05 February 07 04:00 PM | AaronSakulich | 0 Comments   

Friends, Here is the data that we would have collected if the rheometer had been working. You will need to write a one page lab report on this, as indicated in your lab handouts, as well as a paragraph on the Ubbleohde visocsity tests that we ran today. Read More...

Attachment(s): Lab1Rheology_2006.xls

FTIR Data
02 February 07 10:27 AM | AaronSakulich | 0 Comments   

Friends, Here is the FTIR data. You do not need to do anything to the file, just plot the data. You'll need data for each reacton at each time, for the reactants, and for the PMMA and Nylon from last week. Apparently, I can only upload one file at Read More...

Attachment(s): FTIR Data.xls

Final Exam
01 February 07 02:21 PM | Caroline Schauer | 0 Comments   

Our Final Exam has been assigned as Friday 3/23/2007 from 0800-1000 Read More...