Math and Physical Science Dept.   Office: 143-3 (corner office)   Phone: (231) 777-0294   Fax: (231) 777-0487   Email: Karen.Wilson@muskegoncc.edu		cadmium yellow (CdS) — A toxic yellow salt (a compound between a metal and a nonmetal) used as a pigment by painters. Cadmium (Cd) is a metal (element number 48) and sulfur (S) is a nonmetal (element number 16). The Van Gogh self portrait (1887) above resides in the Detroit Institute of Arts.

30 second video on sulfur hexafluoride gas:         60 second video on crazy way to make salt:

3 second video of rotating pictures of the elements by Theo Gray at PeriodicTable.com:

Education:

    •   B.S. Ohio State University, Mathematics
    •   M.S. Ohio State University, Chemical Engineering
    •   Georgia Tech, 3 years advanced study, Chemical Engineering

Courses frequently taught:

    •    CHEM 100 lecture & CHEM 100a lab (introductory chemistry)
    •    CHEM 109 lecture & CHEM 109a lab (chemistry for health sciences)
    •    MATH 111 (college algebra)
 
In CHEMISTRY 100 (introductory chemistry), we use my purple packet which students use for note taking, for reading graphs and tables, for learning computational procedures, and for doing certain homework assignments. The cover of the purple packet (created in AppleWorks) appears below.

In MATH 111 (college algebra), my students use my math pack each day in class for note taking and completing certain homework assignments. The black and white cover (created with AppleWorks, MathType, Texas Instrument graphing calculator link software and HyperCard) appears below. The simulation (to scale) of a white ball freely falling 700 feet against a black background was created by a computer program I wrote in HyperCard, an object oriented programming language for Macintoshes.

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