antilog and pH

antilog and pH

by Dwight Souder -
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I apologize for my "noobie" question.  I've been using Moodle for my chemistry students.  We are currently going over Acids, Bases, and pH.  For the pH calculations, I have no problem of converting the concentration to pH (using the log10 calculation), but I'm having difficulties reversing the calculation (using antilog, [H3O+]=10^-pH).  

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Re: antilog and pH

by lucia liljegren -

In many Moodle plugins, "log" is natural log.  When it is:

pH = log(H3O+)/log(10)

You can check it works by doing 10^pH.  Some plugins prefer something like power(10,pH). You need to see the documentation for the specific plugin.

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