Web Sites Worth Checking Out

 

 

First- a few very good general sites for help

Old Man Honda Site   (for student ID just use your first initial and last name (I'd use lgotlib) and for password use Gotlibchem (case sensitive). School abbreviation is WHS. Class period- just put the number of the period (use 6 for 6/7 and 8 for 8/9).

Chemtutor

ChemCollective hads lots of well done tutorials at all levels- worth visiting

Webelements- a Great Online Periodic Table 

Visual Elements-  

Periodic table videos of almost all the elements- worth checking out 

The Journal of Chemical Education Digital library has an unbelievable amount of info. Videos, images and facts on elements are available. 

Science Daily 

Print your own graph paper

A whole lot of on-line quizzes very well done 

Some on-line quizzes courtesy of Mr. Shultz 

The LennTech online Periodic Table

The American Institute of Physics has great info on the development of atomic models

The sites below strike me as some good places on the web to learn more about some topics we study in my honors and academic classes. You might also look at my handouts page to find some practice pages as well. These sites are presented in the general order in which we cover the material, both classes are "mixed as most sites have useful material for both levels of chemistry.

BONUS POINTS- Tell me the name of the two green guys in this picture and I'll give you a mole buck! Send me an email with your name (not a cute screen name) in the subject line and the guys' names in the message. Good luck!

A reminder- at the end of each Honors Level PowerPoint there are also links to useful web pages

• More on scientific notation  (Honors Unit 1, Academic Unit 1)
• More on significant figures (Honors Unit 1, Academic Unit 1)
• SI units and conversion hints (Honors Unit 1, Academic Unit 1)
• Factor label examples and help (Honors Unit 1, Academic Unit 1)
• A basic level factor label practice page (Honors Unit 1, Academic Unit 1)
• A density practice web site (check yourself) (Honors Unit 1, Academic Unit 2)
• still dense about density? (Honors Unit 1, Academic Unit 2)
• Specific heat capacity calculations (they use cg for heat capacity instead of C or Cp) (Academic Unit 3)
• check yourself with this heat capacity practice page (Academic Unit 3)
• common monoatomic ions (related to periodic table location) (Honors Unit 2a, Academic Unit 6)
• another help page on monoatomic ions (Honors Unit 2a, Academic Unit 6)
• all the polyatomic ions you'll ever need to know (Honors Unit 2a, Academic Unit 6)
• polyatomic ions with space filling models (Honors Unit 2a, Academic Unit 6)
• naming and formula writing for ionic- an online game site (Honors Unit 2b, Academic Unit 6)
• a summary of principles of naming and formula writing (Honors Unit 2b, Academic Unit 6)
• one more good naming and formula writing summary (Honors Unit 2b, Academic Unit 6)
• a timeline showing theories and key experiments in the development of the atomic theory  (Honors unit 2c, Academic Unit 4)
• links to all sorts of info on key experiments we have discussed (Honors unit 2c, Academic Unit 4)
• basics of history- not much detail but a good organizer (Honors unit 2c, Academic Unit 4)
• a webquest on atomic structure (Honors unit 2c, Academic Unit 4)
• some atomic structure basics (Honors unit 2c, Academic Unit 4)
• basic terminology related to atomic structure (Honors unit 2c, Academic Unit 4)
• using atomic symbols to find atomic mass, mass nmuber and numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons (Honors unit 2c, Academic Unit 4)
• average atomic mass basics and practice (Honors unit 2c, Academic Unit 4)
• another average atomic mass practice site (Honors unit 2c, Academic Unit 4)
• mass spectra and isotopes (Honors unit 2c, Academic Unit 4)
• element compound or mixture? (Honors unit 1, Academic unit 3)
• an element compound mixture quiz (Honors Unit 1, Academic Unit 3)
• another presentation on matter (Honors Unit 1, Academic Unit 3)
• a nice summary basic properties of solids, liquids and gases (Honors Unit 1, Academic Unit 3)
• a quiz on physical and chemical changes (Honors Unit 1, Academic unit 3)
• A chemial reactions primer and self-test  (Honors unit 3a, Academic Unit 7)
•  A festival of chemical reactions help  (Honors unit 3a, Academic Unit 7)
• lots of detailed information on chemical reactions and equations (Honors Unit 3a, Academic Unit 7)
• Help site on net ionic equations (with practice examples) (Honors Unit 3a)
• More help with net ionic equations (Honors Unit 3a)
• oxidation number basics (Honors Unit 3b)
• oxidation number basics (Honors Unit 3b)
• Balancing redox (Honors Unit 3b)
• Balancing Redox again (Honors Unit 3b)
• some basic mole calculations (moles, molecules, mass) (Honors unit 4, Academic Unit 8)
• mass<---->mole calculations (Honors Unit 4, Academic Unit 8)
• one more page on mole calcuation basics (Honors Unit 4, Academic Unit 8)
• % composition examples and practice (Honors Unit 4, Academic Unit 8)
• calculating empirical formula  (Honors Unit 4, Academic Unit 8)
• empirical and molecular formulas (Honors Unit 4, Academic Unit 8)
• moles and L with a mole diagram (Honors Unit 4, Academic Unit 8)
• mole diagram (Honors Unit 4, Academic Unit 8)
• mole ratios from coefficients (Honors Unit 4, Academic Unit 8)
• the classic mass-mass problem (Honors Unit 4, Academic Unit 8)
• more mass-mass examples (Honors Unit 4, Academic Unit 8)
• limiting reagent problems (Honors Unit 4)
• another site for limiting reagent help (Honors Unit 4)
• a nice clear example of a % yield problem combined with limiting reagent (Honors Unit 4)
• Gas Law Java Applets (may need Shockwave download for some) (Honors unit 5, Academic Unit 14)
• A nice gas law summary (Honors unit 5, Academic Unit 14)
• a virtual laboratory to study gas laws (Honors unit 5, Academic Unit 14)
• kinetic molecular theory and gas law summary (Honors unit 5, Academic Unit 14)
• an outstanding gas law summary (Honors unit 5, Academic Unit 14)
• basic gas law practice problem generator (Honors unit 5, Academic Unit 14)
• gas law practice worksheets! (Honors unit 5, Academic Unit 14)
• Graham's Law Theory and Practice problems (Honors unit 5, Academic Unit 14)
• a nice summary of the fundamentals of nuclear chemistry (Academic Unit 5, Honors extra section)
• "real world" nuclear chemistry- political stuff, isotope use, health effects (Academic Unit 5, Honors extra section)
• nuclear chemistry basics and some practice problems (Academic Unit 5, Honors extra section)
• a very detailed and thorough nuclear site (Academic Unit 5, Honors extra section)
• How a nuclear power plant works (Academic Unit 5, Honors extra section) 
• very thorough site on nuclear chemistry (Academic Unit 5, Honors extra section)
• a nice summary of key terms and people related to quantum (non-mathematical)  (Honors units 6,7 and Academic units 10,11)
• another intro to quantum  (Honors units 6,7 and Academic units 10,11)
• a good web site on quantum numbers and electron configurations (Honors units 6,7 and Academic units 10,11)
• what are quantum numbers? (Honors units 6,7 and Academic units 10,11)
• an online casual discussion about quantum numbers- quite readable (Honors units 6,7 and Academic units 10,11)
• electromagnetic waves (Honors units 6,7 and Academic units 10,11)
• what is the photoelectric effect? (Honors units 6,7 and Academic units 10,11)
• valence electron dot formuals for the elements (Honors units 6,7 and Academic units 10,11)
• Hund's Rule (Honors units 6,7 and Academic units 10,11)
• a summary of configurations and a little quiz (Honors units 6,7 and Academic units 10,11)
• periodic properties (Honors units 6,7 and Academic units 10,11)
• a PowerPoint presentation on periodic properties and trends (Honors units 6,7 and Academic units 10,11)
• a very nice Applet showing periodic properties (Honors units 6,7 and Academic units 10,11)
• some basics of ionic and covalent bonding (Honors Unit 8 and Academic Unit 12)
• valence electrons (Honors Unit 8 and Academic Unit 12)
• ionic bond formation- goes from basic to more advanced (Honors Unit 8 and Academic Unit 12)
• covalent bond formation animation (Honors Unit 8 and Academic Unit 12)
• examples of covalent bond formation using dot formulas (Honors Unit 8 and Academic Unit 12)
• ionic vs covalent bond animations (Honors Unit 8 and Academic Unit 12)
• ionic vs. covalent bonding (Honors Unit 8 and Academic Unit 12)
• molecular geometry basics (Honors Unit 9 and Academic Unit 12)
• molecular geometry basics 2 (Honors Unit 9 and Academic Unit 12)
• VSEPR Theory (Honors Unit 9 and Academic Unit 12)
• sigma and pi bonds (Honors Unit 9 )
• valence bond theory and orbital hybridization (Honors Unit 9 )
• hybrid orbitals (Honors Unit 9 )
• intro to MO theory (Honors Unit 9 )
• nice site on molecular orbitals- more detail than you'll ever need! (Honors Unit 9 )
• a good summary of kinetic molecular theory  (Honors Unit 10, Academic Unit 13)
• a good basic summary of solids, liquids and gases (Honors Unit 10, Academic Unit 13)
• states of matter described nicely (Honors Unit 10, Academic Unit 13)
• phases changes (changes of state) (Honors Unit 10, Academic Unit 13)
• phase diagrams- in applet form (Honors Unit 10, Academic Unit 13)
• more help on phase diagrams (Honors Unit 10, Academic Unit 13)
• the structrure of water and hydrogen bonds (Honors Unit 11, Academic Unit 15)
• other intermolecular forces  (Honors Unit 11)
• the basics of concentration units  (Honors Unit 11, Academic Unit 15)
• concentration units and conversions between them  (Honors Unit 11)
• good summary of colligative properties  (Honors Unit 11, Academic Unit 15)
• boiling point elevation and and example or two  (Honors Unit 11, Academic Unit 15)
• freezing point depression example  (Honors Unit 11, Academic Unit 15)
• vapor pressure and Raoult's Law  (Honors Unit 11)
• some basic thermochemical calculations (Honors unit 12 and 14, academic unit 2- basics of heat)
• lots of online practice tests on thermochemistry (Honors unit 12 and 14, academic unit 2- basics of heat)
• more than you'll need on thermochemistry (Honors unit 12 and 14)
• calculating enthalpy (heat) of a reaction (Honors unit 12 and 14)
• test yourself on Hess's Law (Honors unit 12 and 14)
• calculations involving putting a hot metal into cold water (like the lab we do) (Honors unit 12 and 14, academic unit 2- basics of heat)
• entropy, time and disorder (Honors unit 12 and 14)
• free energy and reaction direction (Honors unit 12 and 14)
• general info on factors affecting reaction rates (Honors unit 13 Academic unit 16)
• rate laws and concentrations (Honors unit 13)
• finding a rate law from experimental data (Honors unit 13)
• another example of using data to determine a rate law (Honors unit 13 )
• half life and rate constants with applets)more than you'll ever need on rate laws and chemical kinetics (Honors unit 13 Academic unit 16)
• a very impressive set of tutorials on chemical equilibrium (Honors Unit 15 Academic unit 16)
• a university level PowerPoint on equilibrium (similar to what we cover) (Honors Unit 15 Academic unit 16)
• yet another impressive amount of info on equilibrium (Honors Unit 15 Academic unit 16)
• LeChatelier's Principle (Honors Unit 15 Academic unit 16)
• test yourself on LeChatelier's Principle (Honors Unit 15 Academic unit 16)
• an example of almost everything we do in acids and bases in honors (Honors Units 16 and 17, Academic Unit 17)
• if you can't find it here you don't need it for acid-base chemistry with me   (note- there may some sort of legal discalimer about that statement) (Honors Units 16 and 17, Academic Unit 17)
• some sample titration calculations (Honors Units 16 and 17, Academic Unit 17)
• strong and weak acids and bases (Honors Units 16 and 17, Academic Unit 17)
• finding the pH and pOH of strong acids and bases (perfect for academic and some of the more elementary things we do in honors) (Honors Units 16 and 17, Academic Unit 17)
• calculations involving weak acids and bases (especially good for honors and a bit beyond what we do in academic most years) (Honors Units 16 and 17, Academic Unit 17)
• salts and hydrolysis (Honors Units 16 and 17, Academic Unit 17)
• buffers and the Henderson-Hasselbach Equation (Honors Units 16 and 17)
• a nice summary of the major acid base theories (Honors Units 16 and 17, Academic Unit 17)
• the Brontsed-Lowry Theory in detail (Honors Units 16 and 17, Academic Unit 17)
• how pH meters work (Honors Units 16 and 17)