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Which of the following is not a type of warranty discussed in the textbook?

Jack attends a minor league baseball game in Missouri. While he’s there, the mascot launches tightly wrapped t-shirts into the stands using a cannon that shoots the shirts out at speeds up to 50 miles per hour. Jack was sitting in the second row and carefully watching the game, paying no attention to the mascot and his t-shirt cannon. While he was focused on the game, the mascot launched a t-shirt out of the cannon that whacked Jack in the face and broke his nose. This required surgery to repair. Jack sued the minor league team for damages caused by the mascot’s t-shirt cannon. If the minor league team defends itself in this lawsuit and argues Jack assumed the risk of being hit by a t-shirt, why might a Missouri court disagree and rule in Jack’s favor?

Spurgeon brought a suit against George’s Bank alleging he was enticed into purchasing a defective product and claiming an intentional or negligent failure to warn of a defective product (i.e., his mortgage loan). Will a court find that Spurgeon’s mortgage loan is a product?

The Pauli exclusion principle states that orbitals may hold no more than two electrons with the same direction of spin.

The holding of Hamer v. Sidway could best be described in which of the following?

“When filling orbitals of equal energy, electrons fill them singly first with parallel spins.” This is known as

The volume of a liquid  is 3.975 ml. Which digit is estimated?

What happens to the volume of a gas when you double the number of moles of gas? (temperature and pressure are constant)

What is the concentration of H⁺ (or H3O+) in  2.0 M acetic acid, HC2H3O2?

The discussion board assignments are designed to utilize the course community component that is often missing in online courses when you aren’t really “seeing” your classmates or professor on a regular basis. It also helps show me what you think about course content and gives me an opportunity to answer student questions. Did you like the discussion boards? Would you like to have more guidance and instruction as far as what I’d like you to post about in these boards or did you like the open-ended nature of the question prompts? How can I tweak these assignments and activities to make the course better?