Chemistry
151. General Chemistry I
These files are
provided for students in Chemistry 151 lecture at Pima Community College
for the 2010-2011 academic year.
These are pdf files and require Adobe Acrobat Reader (downloaded free from the Adobe web site)
Lecture
Information:
CHM
151IN Syllabus for Fall 2010
Topic Outline for students using the textbook by Brown, LeMay and Bursten, Chemistry: The Central Science, 10 th Ed
Laboratory
Information:
CHM 151IN Laboratory Schedule Fall 2010 including choice lab information
Laboratory Notebooks and Laboratory Reports
Important Information:
This is an integrated class that combines both the lecture and the laboratory grade. You must have a passing grade in the lecture portion of the class and the laboratory portion of the class in order to pass this course.
Passing the lecture portion of the course requires a passing average for assignments, quizzes, exams, and the final exam.
Passing the laboratory portion of the course requires attendance to lab and completion of all aspects of the laboratory experiments including any pre-lab reports, quizzes, exams, and laboratory reports as required by your laboratory instructor.
Reference Material: Note: Links to other web sites may be changed without notice
FOR REVIEW PURPOSES notes on metric system, chemical symbols, formulas, nomenclature, chemical equations, and more will be found in the General Chem Survival Manual section
The Periodic Table 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.
ChemSpider 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
Exams
Practice placement exams and a ACS-type final exam are posted at Hope College's ChemBoard This is a link to that website.
Chemistry Videos for Review of Topics
Khan Academy 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.
Math Review includes significant figures and scientific notation
Math Review Algebraic operations you should be able to do before starting a general chemistry course
Math Answers Answers to the Math Review problems
Significant Figures, Exponents, and Scientific Notation A tutorial
A Summary of Significant Figures Rules
Answers for Significant Figures, Exponents, and Scientific Notation
Measurement, and Temperature
Metric System The SI system with a short history of measurement
Temperature Temperature measurement with a short historical background
Absolute Zero 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
Problem Solving by Dimensional Analysis
Answers for Problem Solving by Dimensional Analysis
The Elements and the Periodic Table
Element Symbols A historical approach to modern element symbols
Forging the Elements 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.
The Periodic Table 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.
Electron configurations This is an applet for electron configurations from The ChemCollective at Carnegie Mellon
Prospects for Further Considerable Extension of the Periodic Table, a paper by Glenn T. Seaborg, Journal of Chemical Education, 46, Number 10, October 1969, p626
Island of Stability A video from NOVA explaining how heavy elements are made. This is a link to the NOVA website
Notes on the Periodic Classification This is a PDF form of the PowerPoint lecture used in class
Notes on the Periodic Properties of the elements. This is a PDF form of the PowerPoint lecture used in class
Chemical Formulas and Nomenclature
Chemical Formulas and Formula Weight Calculations
Formula Writing Includes nomenclature of inorganic compounds.
Answers for Formula Writing
Additional Tables for Formula Writng These tables were supplied by Matthew Medeiros of Pima Community College.
Flowcharts for Naming Compounds and Common Acids
Atoms and the Atomic Theory
Notes on the Atomic Theory This is a PDF form of the PowerPoint lecture used in class
Notes on Electron Configurations This is a PDF form of the PowerPoint lecture used in class
Electron configurations This is an applet for electron configurations from The ChemCollective at Carnegie Mellon
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.
A periodic table from University of Oregon. Click on an element to see the spectrum. Choose between absorption and emission spectra.
Quicktime movies from Beloit College. 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)
Spectroscopy: Element Identification and Emission Spectra. 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.
Spectra of Gas Discharges by Joachim Koppen, University Strasbourg, France.
Table of Flame Colorant by Element from the Mineralogy Database.
A periodic table from Ivan Noels. Click on an element to see its spectrum.
Nuclear Chemistry
Notes on Nuclear Chemistry This is a PDF form of the PowerPoint lecture used in class
The following are links to web sites for natural radiation decay series.
Natural Decay Series: Uranium, Radium and Thorium. From the Argonne National Laboratory Environmental Science Division.
Natural Radioactive Series by Yevgeniy Miretskiy. Select the decay eries 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
Nuclear Radiation and Its Biological Effects. This is a link to an excerpt from the book No Immediate Danger, Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth, by Dr Rosalie Bertell
Biological Effects of Exposure to a Single Dose of Ionizing Radiation. A table summarizing the effects.
Radiation we are exposed to every day
The following are articles from The American Heritage Magazine of Invention and Technology
Inside the Atomic Kitchen: Irradiated food
The Atomic Cannon: The largest and heaviest artillery piece ever ordered by the Army helped to end a war.
The Beauty of the Bomb: An essay examining one person’s fascination with the bomb.
The Plan to Nuke Panama: The plan to construct a new Panama canal
We Knew That if we Succeeded: An interview with Edward Teller.
Albert Einstein's Letters to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Leo Szilard, a Hungarian physicist who left Germany after Hitler's rise to Power, feared that Germany's nuclear scientist might be able to make a "nuclear Bomb". He had Albert Einstein sign a letter to President Roosevelt which explained the possibility of a nuclear bomb and urged that the United States not allow a potential enemy to develop it first.
How Nuclear Bombs Work. This is a link to the howstuffworks web site.
The Story of the Atomic Bomb, 1934-1945, by James Richard Fromm. This is a link to the web site. This article is well illustrated with photos of most of the people involved.
US Nuclear Tests: Nuclear tests from July 1945 to September 1992 – with web links.
Let's Make a Thermonuclear Device. In November 2001, British reporters searching through an abandoned "al-Qaida safe house" in Kabul, Afghanistan, found this document, and reported that they'd stumbled upon the terrorists' nuclear intentions. This information was published in a Nov. 15 article in the Times of London. In the article, journalist Anthony Loyd wrote that next to "physics and chemistry manuals devoted to molecular matter," he discovered this document on how to make a thermonuclear device. Marc Abrahams, a former editor of the Journal of Irreproducible Results, where the article originally appeared, said "Either there's one guy in the Taliban who had a sense of humor, or everyone was downloading everything on the Net that had the word 'thermonuclear' in it."
Chemical Reactions and Chemical Equations
Writing Chemical Equations
Answers for Writing Chemical Equations
Oxidation-Reduction - An Introduction This is a PDF form of the PowerPoint lecture used in class
Acids and Bases - An Introduction This is a PDF form of the PowerPoint lecture used in class
Organic Chemistry
Notes on Organic Chemistry This is a PDF form of the PowerPoint lecture used in class
Nomenclature of Organic Compounds A tutorial on organic nomenclature
Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry
Notes on Chemical Bonding, Part 1 Ionic and covalent bonds and bond polarity
Notes on Chemical Bonding, Part 2 Molecular shapes, Lewis structures, resonance and bond enthalpies
Notes on Chemical Bonding, Part 3 Theories of chemical bonding: valence bond theory, hybrid orbitals, moleculat orbital theory, and the metallic bond
The Paramagnetism of Liquid Oxygen 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 Molecule's Atoms, Bonds Visualized 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. 5944, pp. 1110 - 1114, 28 August 2009.
Intermolecular Forces and States of Matter
Notes on Intermolecular Forces This is a PDF form of the PowerPoint lecture used in class
Notes on Gases, Liquids, and Solids This is a PDF form of the PowerPoint lecture used in class
Lab Information and Expreiments:
Safety in the Academic Laboratory
Safety in Academic Chemistry Laboratories, 7th Ed. This is a link to the publication by the American Chemical Society Joint Board-council Committee on Chemical Safety
Safety Test Questions These questions are similar, but not exactly the same, as those asked on the safety test. The safety test contains 35 questions.
Identification of a Substance by Physical Properties
Nuclear Chemistry
Chemical Reactions This is an introduction to chemical reactions in microscale
Acids, Bases, and pH Using Red Cabbage Paper Determination of pH of household materials.
Testing the Waters You are welcome to test your own water sample from home. You will need approximately 1 liter of water.
Chemistry in a Zip-Lock Bag
Energy of a Peanut: An Experiment in Calorimetry
Preparation of Acid and Basic Solutions and Analysis of Stomach Antacid Tablets
The Structure of Molecules
Determination of the Volume of CO2 in Pop Rocks
Additional laboratory experiments (currently under construction)