CHEM 123  GENERAL CHEMISTRY 1

• Book Main Web Site
• Instructor Web Site
• Student Web Campanion: Interactive activities for each chapter

• Companion website (with multiple choice questions)
• Chime Models from McMurray - Alphabetic
• Download Chime

• Interactive Periodic Table
• Web Element Periodic Table
• Periodic Table of Haiku

• mathematical formulas
• concepts
• Common Lewis structures (which you should be able to draw with simple rules without memorization

• General Chime Links:  General and Organic Chemistry
• Alphabetical list of Chime structures for inorganic and organic molecules
• Fundamental Physical Constants
• Uncertainty in Measurement
• Best of the Web for General Chemistry
• Gen Chem Web Site
• Animations from Chang: Essential Chemistry
• Chemistry Experiments: Applets
• Resources for Chemical Educator: Applets, etc.
• Great List of Shockwave animations
• Great list of chemistry animations and movies
• Gen Chem Animations from Iowa State
• Fundamental Physical Constants
• Chemfinder:  Enter chemical name, CAS Number, molecular formula, or molecular weight
• Martindale's Chemistry Calculators
• Petrucci et al.
• Chemistry Applets
• Chemistry Animations, Applets, Movies 1
• AP Chem Resources

   

• Representing molecules - methane (CH₄), ammonia (NH₃), and water (H₂O):    line, spoke, ball and stick, space filling

• 3D structures of graphite, buckyballs and nanotubes

• Images of Atoms using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
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• Electron Configuration:   Ionization Energies and Shells 
• Formation of an ionic bond between sodium and chlorine
• Bonds - sharing and transferring a pair of electrons:  The $ analogy
  1. nonpolar covalent
  2. polar covalent
  3. ionic bonds
• Electron Densities in a Covalent Bond
• Ionic vs. Covalent Bond
• Chime models for simple salts

• Microscopic simulation of the three phases of matter
• Sodium Chloride | Cesium Chloride | Crystal Structures
• Chime Models - Chapter 10 

• Rules for Drawing Lewis Structures
• Lewis Structure Example Counting electrons (animation):  partial charge, octets, formal charge, oxidation numbers
• Counting Electrons again

• Dipole Moment and Electron Density
• Bond Polarity (from Spartan)
• Intemolecular Attractive Forces in the Gas Phase
• Water Structure
• DNA:  AT BP |  GC BP 
• DNA: A tutorial
• Noncovalent Interactions in Proteins
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• Specific Heat: Cu and Fe
• Another Specific Heat Applet
• Heat Capacity: Sand vs Water
• Heat of solution of various salts:  interactive animation

• Trigrams:  Relationships among molar mass, # moles, and # particles

• WebCT Quiz: Matter and Atoms 1
• WebCT Quiz:  Naming Ionic Compounds 
• WebCT Quiz: Ionic, Polar Covalent, or Nonpolar Covalent
• WebCT Quiz: Formal Charges
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• Chime models for simple salts
• Animation: NaCl dissolving in water
• Dissolution of Salts
• Animation:Soluble salts - Strong Electrolytes - Dissociation
• Salts and Conductivity: Shockwave
• Whats in the Beaker:  Soluble, Insoluble, Dissociate, Ionize

• Binary Covalent Nomenclature Tutorial (Shockwave)
• Binary Covalent Nomenclature Help
• Interactive tutorial: Naming Simple Compounds Javascript
• Cation Names and Formulas Tutorial (Shockwave)
• Cation Names and Formulas Help
• Anion Names and Formulas Tutorial (Shockwave)
• Anion Names and Formulas Help
• Ionic Nomenclature Tutorial (Shockwave)
• Ionic Nomenclature Help
• Naming: Ionic and Covalent Compounds
• Name that Compound

• Elements, Compounds, Mixtures
• Physical Processes Using for Separating Mixtures
• Features of Matter
• Paper Chromatography of Water Soluble Markers
• Laws of Matter

• Balancing Chemical Equations Tutorial (Shockwave)

• Balancing Chemical Equations Help

• Balancing Chemical Equations Java

• Law of Multiple Proportions

Precipitation Reactions

• Animation of a Precipitation Reaction (Shockwave)

• Predicting Ionic Solubility Tutorial (Shockwave)

• Predicting Ionic Solubility Help

• Solubility Rules

• Animation:  Formation of AgCl(s) from AgNO₃ and NaCl solutions

• mpeg: precipitation reactions

• Hg(II) chloride reacts with sodium iodide - Quick Time

• acid/base: general comparison
• HCl + H20: Space fill model, electron density model, and reaction mechanism.
• Formation of Molecular Ions from Acids
• Animation:  Reaction of HCl and water.
• Reaction Mechanism:  CO₂, NO₂, SO₃: Interactions with water
• Ordering Strong and Weak Acids
• Acid/Base Titration: animation

• Animation: Reaction Stoichiometry Chime
• Density and Molarity:   Intensive Properties
• Preparing a CuSO₄ solution from the solid
• Preparing a CuSO₄ solution from a more concentrated stock solution
• Diluting Concentrated Solutions
• Interactive tutorial: Determing Chemical Formula from Mass Percentages Javascript
• Determination of empirical formula: combustion (Shockwave)

• WebCT Quiz: Stoichimetry 1

• Chime Models - Chapter 3 
• Chime Models - Chapter 4 

• Interactive Pd. Table (select at left)
• Periodic Properties of Elements in the Periodic Table

• Classical Mechanics:  A Review
• electrical force
• vibrating charge and electromagnetic waves
• vibrating charge and the demise of the Rutherford (planetary) model of the atom

• water waves
• electromagnetic waves
• Wave Reflection, Fixed End
• Wave Reflection, Open End
• Superposition of Waves   (applet-interactive or demo) Classical
• Adding Waves
• Interfering ater Waves
• Wave Interference 1
• Wave Interference 2
• Wave Interference 3
• Two slit interference
• Another two slit demo
• Standing Waves: fixed both ends
• Standing Waves: violin

• Photoelectric Effect
• Photoelectric Effect  
• Emission Spectra atoms
• Flame test for alkali metals salts
• Jumps in Bohr Model
• Bohr Model : emission spectra
• Bohr Model of the Atom:   Derivation:  E, r, and v are quantized
• Derivation of Debroglie Equation
• Debroglie and Wave Property of Particles
• Bohr Model Modification:   Electron as Wave - Angular Momentum (L) quantized
• Quantum Quotes compiled by Dr. Rioux
• Interference Pattern of Buckminsterfullerene:  Theoretical | Experimental 
• Electron Microscopes - How they work
• Quantum Physics Online 
• Electron Energy and Energy Conservation:  Ionization Energy, Photoelectric Effect and H Emission Spectra
• Bose-Einstein Condensate:  From the University of Colorado

• Quantum Numbers
• Atomic orbtials (1s-4f)
• Atomic orbitals electron densities (1s and 2p)
• Atomic Orbitals (1s and 2p) VRML
• Relative Energy of Atomic Orbitals
• Orbital Diagrams and Electronic Configuration
• Best orbital diagrams
• Adding Electrons to Oxygen
• Quantum on the Web:  Links to the University of Colorado

• Quantum Behavior of C₇₀.  Science. 292. pg 1471 (2001)
• Electronics vs Spintronics:  Nature 411, pg 747 (2001)
• The Fog That Was Not (Femtosecond resolution and uncertainty) Nature, 412,pg 279 (2001)
• Zeilinger.  The quantum centennial:  One hundred years ago, a simple concept changed our world view forever. Nature. 408, pg 639 (2000)
• Schrodiner's Cat is out of the Hat.  Science. 290. pg 720, 773 (2000)

• Chime Models - Chapter 5 

• Atomic Orbitals, Hybrid Orbitals, and Molecular Orbitals:  A Java Applet from MIT
• Molecular Orbitals (from class)
• Interactive view of MOs ****
• Molecular Orbitals 1 | Molecular Orbitals 2
• Spartan Electron Density Maps: CH₄, NH₃, H₂0 and HF from Lab 10
• Electron Density Models: A Tutorial

• Electron Pair and Molecular Geometry: template
• Electron Pair and Molecular Geometry - Chime Models (loads very slowly)
• Molecular Modeling:  VSEPR on the Web: (View in Public PC Lab)

• acid/base: general comparison
• HCl + H20: Space fill model, electron density model, and reaction mechanism.
• Formation of Molecular Ions from Acids
• Animation:  Reaction of HCl and water.
• Reaction Mechanism:  CO₂, NO₂, SO₃: Interactions with water
• Ordering Strong and Weak Acids
• Acid/Base Titration: animation
• Lewis Acid/Base movie
• Basic and Acidic Oxides

• Oxidation of Zn by O₂
• Oxidation of Zn by H₃O⁺ or Cu²⁺
• Reduction of CuO by C: the Cu age
• Counting Electrons:  Oxidation Numbers
• WebCT Quiz: Oxidation Number
• Balancing Redox Equations:  Mass and Charge Balance - and example
• Oxidation number in a chemical reaction: an example
• Activity Series of Metals
• Reaction of Na(s) with water

• Classification of Reactions

• Similarites/Differences in Precipitation, Redox, and Acid Base Reactions
• Continuum in Bonding, Acid/Base strength, Redox strength
• Vocabulary for reaction types and reaction species
• Name that Reaction!   - Problem Set  |  Name that Reaction! - Answer Key
• Hints and Mistakes in determining products in chemical reactions.

• Energy Vocabulary - (will be routinely updated)
• System/Surroundings/Universe
• Energy, Work and Heat:   The First Law
• Change in Internal Energy and PV Work
• Enthalpy and State Function
• Hess's Law, Standard Enthalpies, and Bond Enthalpies
• First Law Applications:   ΔE_univ = 0
• Standard Enthalpy of Formation
• Determining ΔH using ΔH^o _f : an example
• Born Haber Thermodynamic Cycle for Ionic Substances
• Calculating DH^o for combustion of hexane using ΔH^o_f  and Hess's Law
• Thermodynamic Values on the Web

• Pressure converter
• The Gas Simulator Java
• Dry Lab: Gas Simulator Java
• Better Gas Law simulator Java
• Hard sphere gas simulator: 2 different molecules Java
• Hard sphere gas simulator: one type of molecule Java

• Thermodynamic Values on the Web
• Entropy on the Web
• Shuffled Cards, Messy Desks, and Disorderly Dorm Rooms — Examples of Entropy Increase? Nonsense!
• Entropy is not disorder; it is a measure of energy dispersal
• A student's approach to the 2nd law
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• Entropy and Free Energy

• single chain amphiphile | micelle
• micelle
• double chain amphiphile | bilayer membranes
• bilayer

• Reversible and Irreversible reactions

• Virtual Titrator (Use file, refresh to clear window)
• titration curves for many acids
• titration curve for H₃PO₄, a  polyprotic acid
• Buffer Applet
• buffer recipes

• Electrolysis of water
• Electrolytic Cell Animation
• Galvanic Cell Animation (long load time)
• Anode or Cathode? Galvanic vs Electrolytic cells
• Activity Series of Metals
• Standard Reduction Potentials: General
• Standard Reduction Potential Table