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Chemistry 101 — General Chemistry

Fall 2009

USEFUL LINKS

• Course Specific Materials
• Textbook Author's Website
• Biblical Passages Important to the Workings of Science (pdf)
• Instructions and Examples for Writing Lewis Structures (pdf)
• The Mole Map
• Essay:  What is Chemistry and Why Study It? by Dr. C. Fictorie (pdf)
• The Chemistry Hypermedia Project--On-line resources for students, educators, and scientists.
• Powers of 10--Distances from 10^-18 to 10⁺²⁵ meters are illustrated and discussed
• Naming Compounds
• General Chemistry Toolkit at St. Olaf College
• Simple rules for naming compounds at Widener University
• Naming tutorial at Washington University
• Flowchart for classifying compounds into a naming scheme
• Glossary of Common Chemical Names from Science Company. Includes both common and archaic names.
• Commona and Trade Names from CSUDH.
• Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) Research Division
• Molecular Models at Okanagan University College (B.C.)
• Jmol--an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D
• The Macrogalleria - a cyberwonderland of polymer fun. With a good sense of humor, too!
• NIST Reference on Fundamental Physical Constants
• Learning and Problem Solving in Chemistry. Good advice and a systematic approach to problem solving in chemistry (and other areas, too!).
• Web-Elements--The Periodic Table on the web.
• Solubility Rules
• Solubility Rules from Oliver Seely at CSU, Dominguez Hills
• Solubility Rules from Aus-Tute
• Kinetics and Equilibrium Simulations and Applets
  The second link in each is to a page containing several simulations of interest.
• Equilibrium Applet: from ChemConnections
• Chemical Kinetics: from Chemistry at Univ. California-Irvine
• Chemical Equilibrium: from Davidson College.
• Gas Law Simulations Used in Class
• Kinetic Theory I--Applet that illustrates distribution of molecular speeds.
• Molecules in Motion--Applet with two different gases in two containers.
• Gas Law Program--Control P, V, T, and n in a piston system.
• UCI Educational Applets--A set of interesting chemistry applets, including a couple on gases.
• Acid-Base Tutorial based on human physiology.
• Human Physiology: Respiration from Gary Ritchison of the Biological Sciences Department of Eastern Kentucky University.
• The Soap Making Home Page--A supplement to the lab "Preparing Soap and Determining Its Properties" (PROP-319). Lots of interesting information on how to make soap from scratch. You'll see that the lab instructions closely parallel the "Basic Instructions" on this site.

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