ChE 344
Problem Set 1
Due Tuesday, January 11, 2011 (Lecture 2)

Individual Assignment

Please absolutely no talking during lecture. If you need to speak to someone there will be sufficient opportunities during breaks.

  1. PLQ2(PreLecture Quiz 2) - What is a Levenspiel Plot (Ch. 2)? Email your answer to the Teaching Assistant (GSI) before class.

  2. P1-1. Part (a) Submit your "brief" paragraph by e-mail to your Teaching Assistant (GSI). After subject, type: Problem Set 1
  3. P1-5A - ICM Kinetics Challenge 1. The module can be installed from the DVD or it can be downloaded from the following web sites:  http://www.essentialsofcre.com/ or  http://www.umich.edu/~essen/. Send your performance number to your Teaching Assistant (GSI) via e-mail

  4. P1-2B (omit part (d))

  5. P2-3 (a) Chapter 2: Record your learning style according to the Solomon/Felder inventory at http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html

    1. Global/Sequential                       

    2. Active/Reflective                        

    3. Visual/Verbal                            

    4. Sensing/Intuitive                        

    5. Read Appendix H.2 in the textbook and Suggest ways for each (A through D) to use the DVD and web to facilitate your learning styles. Also go to the links at the end of the Chapter 2 Summary Notes. Go to http://www.engin.umich.edu/~cre/asyLearn/itresources.htm
    6.  

  6. Problem P1-6A


  7. P 1-12B-Use Polymath 6.1

    There is a Polymath Tutorial on the web site in the summary notes for Chapter 1. To access the tutorial start from the home page and then:
    1. Click on Living Examples Problems
    2. Click on the Polymath link in the second paragraph
    3. Click on here for Tutorials
    4. Click on Ordinary Differential Equation Solver for part (a) and Nonlinear Equation Solver for (b)