The General Chemistry Survival Manual The General Chemistry Course Survival Manaual is a series of notes for students in General Chemistry lecture classes at Pima Community College. These notes were developed from the mid 1970's to the present to supplement topics that were poorly explained in General Chemistry textbooks. In 1990, the notes were assembled into an in-house manual used at Community College of Philadelphia and, later, at Cabrini College, called T he General Chemistry Survival Manual. These are pdf files and require Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Reference Files This is a free download from Microsoft Research for Word 2007 or Word 2010. This makes it easier to to insert and modify chemical information, such as labels, formulas, and 2-D depictions, within Microsoft Office Word A LabWrite Resources tutorial on graphing from NC State University is a resource developed by NC State University for improving lab reports.
This is a link to the LabWrite web site. If you are looking for information on any chemical element, its properties, or its uses, use this link to the Web Elements Periodic Table by Mark Winter, Dept.
Of Chemistry, University of Sheffield. Probably the best periodic table on the Internet, it provides a wealth of information about the elements. ChemSpider links together compound information across the web, providing free text and structure search access of millions of chemical structures.
With an abundance of additional property information, tools to curate and use the data, and integration to a multitude of other online services, ChemSpider is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information available online. ChemSpider is provided free by the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemistry Videos for Review of Topics provides a number of videos on various subjects at no cost on YouTube. They are a not-for-profit organization with a mission of providing information. (They do ask for donations) The chemistry videos cover most of the topics for a high school or first-year college chemistry course. The videos are essentially lectures of up to about 15 minutes in length with limited notes being written on a black screen as one would write on a blackboard with some occasional pictures or tables.
These were recommended by a student. I have only viewed portions of some videos and have found a few misconceptions.
Use these videos with care. The origins of chemistry from ancient times to 1800 Math Review includes significant figures and scientific notation Algebraic operations you should be able to do before starting a general chemistry course Answers to the Math Review problems A tutorial Measurement, and Temperature The SI system with a short history of measurement Written and directed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1977, this video shows the relative scale of the universe, both macroscopic and microscopic by first zooming out from a picnic in Chicago and then zooming into the subatomic world. Temperature measurement with a short historical background This is a program from NOVA (split into 10 chapters). The program presents a history of temperature measurement up to the modern methods of trying to reach absolute zero.
This is a link to the NOVA website. Dimensional Analysis Problem Solving The Elements and the Periodic Table A historical approach to modern element symbols How were the elements formed? This is a segement from the NOVA program Origins: Back to the Beginning. Watch the entire program (split into 6 chapters) or just select the Forging the Elements chapter. This is a link to the NOVA website.
This is a link to the Web Elements Periodic Table by Mark Winter, Dept. Of Chemistry, University of Sheffield. Probably the best periodic table on the Internet, it provides a wealth of information about the elements. This is an applet for electron configurations from The ChemCollective at Carnegie Mellon, a paper by Glenn T. Seaborg, Journal of Chemical Education, 46, Number 10, October 1969, p626 A video from NOVA explaining how heavy elements are made. This is a link to the NOVA website, a paper by Pekka Pyykko, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Phyics, 2011, 13, 161-168 Chemical Formulas, Nomenclature, and the Mole Includes nomenclature of inorganic compounds.
These tables were supplied by Matthew Medeiros of Pima Community College. This is a link to an article by T. Furtsch at Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN This is a link to an article by Ian Mills and Martin Milton in Chemistry International, Vol.
2, March-April 2009. Chemical Equations Organic Chemistry A tutorial on organic nomenclature This is a PDF file of a PowerPoint presentation used in class This is a PDF file of a PowerPoint presentation used in class is an article from Chemistry World, December 2010, telling about the aspects of cocktail chemistry.
It's all organic chemistry! Nuclear Radiation The following are links to web sites for natural radiation decay series. From the Argonne National Laboratory Environmental Science Division. Select the decay series and the time step, then animate. This uses a bar graph to show the concentrations of the major isotopes formed in the decay series change over time. Additional data on half-lives and numbers of atoms are given on the right of the graph. Note: For long half-lives, select a longer time step.
The following are links to information on the Biological Effects of Radiation This is a link to an excerpt from the book No Immediate Danger, Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth, by Dr Rosalie Bertell. A table summarizing the effects.
Atomic Structure and Atomic Spectra Emission spectra of elements: These are links to web sites for emission spectra of elements. Note: Academic websites may only be available for limited time periods. Click on an element to see the spectrum.
Choose between absorption and emission spectra. Click on the absorption, emission, or combination spectrum shown to initiate spectra. Move the slide on the bottom of the spectrum to select elements. Note: Apple Quicktime needed (a free download). Contains an explanation of spectra with both selected flame spectra and element spectra following the explanation.
This material was prepared by Dr. Walt Volland, Bellvue Community College. By Joachim Koppen, University Strasbourg, France. From the Mineralogy Database. Click on an element to see its spectrum. This is an applet for electron configurations from The ChemCollective at Carnegie Mellon. A paper by I.
Mikhailovskij, E. I Mazilova, V. Ksenofontov, and O. Velicodnaja, Physical Review B, 80, 165404 (2009). S and p orbitals do exist! Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry Prof.
Robert Burk, Carleton University demonstrates what happens when liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen is poured between the poles of a strong magnet. Things to note: 1) The color of the liquid oxygen; 2) Molecular orbital diagrams for nitrogen and for oxygen. Do these molecular structures actually exist as we picthure them?
This is a link to the Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) article which appeared in the August 31, 2009 issue. The original article The Chemical Structure of a Molecule Resolved by Atomic Force Microscopy, by Leo Gross, Fabian Mohn, Nikolaj Moll, Peter Liljeroth, and Gerhard Meyer, appeared in Science, Vol 235, no. 1110 - 1114, 28 August 2009. Intermolecular Forces and States of Matter This is a link to in a gas. This site is still under construction. More files will be added as they are updated.