Links Related to Text Chapters:

Chemistry: The Central Science (7th ed) by Brown, LeMay & Bursten

(This is a list of links put together by former 105 students. If you have any suggestions or corrections for this page please email jenemark@u.arizona.edu)

Chapter 1: "Chemistry: Matter and Movement"

• Accuracy and Precision
• Significant Figures

Chapter 2: "Atoms, Molecules, and Ions"

• naming compounds
• Chemicool Periodic Table
• Periodic Table of the Elements
• http://edie.cprost.sfu.ca/~rhlogan/periodic.html
• It has info on periodic trends and how the table was put together
• http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/
• this site has a periodic table linked to pages giving descriptions of the properties of each of the periodic table elements, including whether it behaves as a metal or non-metal.
• This site is so cool!! Its an extrememly user-friendly map of all the elements.
• http://cst.lanl.gov/julie/imagemap/periodic/periodic.html
• Here's the best periodic table site I could find. I thought that would be the most relevant kind of site for this chapter.

Chapter 3: "Formulas, Equations, and Moles"

• Molecular Weight Calculator
• Mole Problems
• Stoichiometry Hints
• Stoichiometry pract. for general chem students
• balancing chemical equations

Chapter 4: "Reactions in Aqueous Solutions"

balancing redox reactions

acids and bases

Chapter 5: "Periodicity and Atomic Structure"

• The Physics of Coloured Fireworks : This site discusses how fireworks can vary in color. The site also gives a listing of what colors different metal ions emit.
• Electromagnetic radiation
• Atomic Spectra:
• Atomic Line Spectra
• Feynman on physics
• Pictures of orbitals. Note this site shows the wave functions, not the square of the wave functions as is shown in the text.
• The Wilson Group's General Chemistry Page

Chapter 6: "Ionic Bonds and Some Main-Group Chemistry"

• Crystal Lattices: A page with interesting crystal structures of molecules. You may need to download a molecule viewer, Rasmol, in order to see the graphics.
• Electrides: This is Dr. Edwards Research sight. He gives a brief summary of electrides and their synthesis.
• Inflating Bucky Balls with Noble Gases
• Fundamentals of Bonding: The incredible balance of charge. This site goes through many examples of lewis dot structures and the application of the octet rule

Chapter 7: "Covalent Bonds and Molecular Structure"

Chapter 8: "Thermochemistry: Chemical Energy"

• Entropy: In all of physics, there is perhaps no topic more underrated and misunderstood than entropy. The behavior of large collections of particles, such as the universe, a grain of sand, or a tuna salad sandwich, is dictated by two universal laws: one involving energy, the other involving entropy. And yet, while energy is described in great detail throughout any introductory physics textbook, entropy is relegated to about two or three pages, and is usually badly described. Well, no more! Here's the real story of physics. Here's what really drives the universe. Here's what your physics instructor won't tell you. Here's entropy !!!
• An experimentdesigned to determine the differences in heat capacity for equal volumes of different substances. This experiment can be done at home.
• What are electric air source heat pumps?
• Thermophysical datafor various industrial materials.
• Enthalpy of formation of indium telluride InTe

Chapter 9: "Gases: Their Properties and Behavior"

• The Chemistry of Chlorine: Everything you wanted to know about chlorine but were afraid to ask
• Journal of Physical Chemistry: this is a virtual version of the ACS's Journal of Physical Chemistry. It contains the last few months of articles on gases. Has some good links as well.
• Role of Nitrogen and Sulfur Gases in Air Pollution: A good discussion and pictorial explanation of the behavior of these gases in the atmosphere.
• The Empirical Gas Laws: This is a college chemistry site for a course at the University of Alberta. It has decriptions of the gas laws as well as helpful links.

Chapter 10: "Liquids, Solids, and Changes of State"

Crystal Lattices:

• Dr. Salzman's Chem101A Page: A page with interesting crystal structures for a large variety of molecules. These structures require a molecule viewer, Rasmol, in order to see the graphics.
• ViMS site: An excellent site that contains diagrams for common closest packed structures as well as ionic and covelent crystals. This site requires Quicktimeor some other movie viewer.
• Cubic crystal lattices: This site has examples of BCC and FCC that do not require any special viewers
• LASSP site: More examples of BCC and FCC as well as downloadable mpeg files that show transformation between the two packing structures.
• The following sites show some nice pictures of lattices. The do not require any special viewers:
• cubic lattices
• counting atoms in a unit cell
• CWRU site:
• This site uses Chime to visualize some very nicely done cubic and ionic lattices. They also have an alternative site that does not require Chime.
• This site contains images of lattices and unit cells that you can manipulate in netscape

Chapter 11: "Solutions and their Properties"

Chapter 12: "Chemical Kinetics"

• University of Alberta's Chem102 homepage: This course outline provides a good starting point for the student interesting in learning about chemical kinetics. (rate laws, reaction orders, etc)
• Chemical Kinetics: An interactive site explaining chemical kinetics. You can model different reactions and observe the concentration dependence on time
• University of Pennsylvania's Physics Department: This site is a little too advanced for freshman level. It explains in detail the math of kinetics. It also has some interesting graphs problems in kinetics.
• http://fluid.nist.gov/ckmech.html
• ... lots of good kinetics stuff. It has specific reaction data and downloadable files to mention a few things.
• http://www.lapeer.lib.mi.us/chem/chem2docs/ea.html
• Here is a site directed twards lab students that talks about activation energy
• http://www.owlnet.rice.edu:80/~chem111/equilibrium.html
• This site has the same kinetics equations we've been using for the last couple of weeks, but near the end it also discusses Le Chatelier's principle in describing how a reaction not at equilibrium will react.

Chapter 13: "Chemical Equilibrium"

• http://c.chem.ualberta.ca/courses/plambeck/p101.new/p01102.htm
• This is a web site regarding Equilibrium Constants along with Le Chatelier's Principle.
• relates the principle to rate constants and what happens when certain stresses are applied to a reaction.
• http://www.stockton.edu:80/~overlyk/equilibrium/sld001.htm
• http://www.chem.brown.edu/chem31/lectures/Lecture24.html
• a very long page of lecture notes from a class that eventually talks about the rate constant and equilibrium; it also gives examples and equations
• http://chemweb.urich.edu/chem/faculty/dominey/301/ln/review/TOC.html
• http://links.math.rpi.edu/~warrej/equil.html
• ??http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/materials_science/MDA125/reactions/index.htm ??
• This site provides a very simple and direct visual presentation for Chemical Equilibrium Material. All you have to do is follow the links and you have a web-site which hopefully, will not be over any persons ability to comprehend.
• http://esg-www.mit.edu:8001/bio/eb/chem/solvingequilibria.html
• http://jcbmac.chem.brown.edu/baird/Chem22I/lectures/kinetics97b.html
• This is a great site. (Note that the class is 22i not 221) It has slides shown during the class and the lectures can be downloaded and heard with real audio. (There is a link to let you download the needed software.) >From the syllabus, it looks like this class will cover the same stuff that we will this semester. This site is certainly relevant to 105 students because of the content and the level of instruction.

Chapter 14: "Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Water"

• http://cst.lanl.gov/julie/imagemap/periodic/1.html
• This is a site that talks about the uses of hydrogen as a fuel. It presents hydrogen as an interesting alternative fuel source.
• http://www.getnet.com/charity/aha/ahafaq.html
• This site includes information on hydrogen and its physical makeup. It also includes chemical equations for reaction which occur with hydrogen. This site is useful for someone who wanted to find out more about hydrogen, its uses in society, and its production.
• http://www.crl.com./~peters/periodic/8.htm
• These sites are good general information sites on the two elements, hydrogen and oxygen. Plus, there is a summary of all the elements listed under the address http://www.crl.com./~peters/periodic Each site includes a history, general information on the elements, and a listing of isotopes.
• http://www.jet.uk/fusion1.html
• This site has some interseting information on the fussion of Deuterium and Tritium in producing an unlimited and clean source of energy. The importance of this type of information is clear when the state of the enviroment is viewed on a global scale. The Hydrogen isotopes appear to be the key, and it will be chemistry which will provide the physcists and the engineers with the fuel to run their reactors

Chapter 15: " Aqueous Equilibria: Acids and Bases"

• Acid/Base Calculator: downloadable software that allows you to calculate the pH value and speciation of an aqueous acid/base solution and to plot various speciation diagrams, titration curves, buffer capacity plots, and bound-proton diagrams.
• pH Tutorial An excellent site that covers all the way from basic descriptions of acids and bases to biological applications.
• Solubility and Solutions The main use of this site is a source for demonstrations to perform in the classroom or lab.
• http://www.science.ubc.ca/departments/chem/courses/103/tutorials/pH/launch.html
• This page has excellent animations of acid and base reactions. The text is understandable and covers exactly what we are covering. The site is quite extensive.
• http://kauai.cudenver.edu:3001/0/acbspg1.dir/discon.html
• this site gives the definitions of strong and weak acids/bases and the relationships with their conjugates; it explains the relationships between the dissociation constants kw,ka,kb and what they're significance is. it also has a link to problems about determining equilibrium concentrations that you can do and then check your answers.
• http://odin.chemistry.uakron.edu/genobc/Chapter_09/
• site is about pH. Gives brief overview of pH and acid-base chemistry
• http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu:80/instruct/gerst/z120/acid.htm
• This web site talks about acids, bases, and pH and how they relate to the pH. It also discusses the relationship of pH to human biochemistry.(blood pH etc.)
• http://bubba.ucc.okstate.edu/jgelder/acidPage38.html
• This page gives an overview of lewis acids and bases. it contrasts them to bronstead lowry acids and bases and defines what makes a compound a lewis acid or base. examples are also given
• http://odin.chemistry.uakron.edu/analytical/Complex_acid/
• This site has a great step by step break down of most of the material we are currently reviewing, including acid-base reactions and titrations. The site goes step by step through the formulas necessary in the associated reactions. An excellent site for a person needing help in understanding the vast range of material we are studying.
• http://yip5.chem.wfu.edu/yip/java/titrate.html
• At this page there are multiple interactive titrations that you can perform. It is very cool. He has options so you can titrate with a weak acid and strong base. You can also change Ka. It is a great learning tool, as well as pretty dang cool.
• http://esg-www.mit.edu:8001/esgbio/lm/proteins/pka/pka.html
• Here is a site I found dealing with pKa and the henderson-hasselbalch equation.
• http://chipo.chem.uic.edu/web1/ocol/SB/1-7.htm
• It's a good history of acids and bases as described in the textbook with pictures and formulas, etc.

Chapter 16: "Applications of Aqueous Equilibria"

• http://www.chem.ualberta.ca:80/~plambeck/che/p101/p01192.htm
• It talks about The Common Ion Effect, has a link to a table of molar solubility constants, and has example problems of how to calculate the solubility of a product in water.
• http://www.mtsinai.org/pulmonary/papers/eq/eqhen.html
• My web sit for this week comes from a page about the most important equasiions in the health field. It has a large summay of the henderson -hasselbalch equasion and some problems.

Chapter 17: "Thermodynamics: Entropy, Free Energy, and Equilibrium"

• Thermodynamics - Introduction
• Lecture 15: Introduction to Thermodynamics
• About Temperature
• A 2nd Law of Thermodynamics Description of Aging
• Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Properties of Heat and Matter
• http://www-wilson.ucsd.edu/education/gchem/entropy/entropy.html
• This is a great page. It is part of the chemistry visulaization pages. There is not a lot a text, but there are good movies and simulations. The stuff does take a while to download if you don't have a fast browser.
• http://www-wilson.ucsd.edu/education/gchem/entropy/enintro.html
• This site explains the theory of entropy with the use of pictures. It is helpful for someone who doesn't understand the idea fully, and wants an interactive page to help him understand.
• http://c.chem.ualberta.ca/~plambeck/che/p102/p02062.htm
• This web site is a discussion of the entropy and how it is affected by temprature:
• http://sdchemw1.ucsd.edu/education/gchem/entropy/enintro.html
• This is another great site. The main reason I like this site, is because it has videos, and other visual effects for those who learn better that way. It is a very educational page.
• this site has excellent color graphics and a movie which explain the basic principles of entropy. make sure you check out that movie (you'll need Quicktime) and preferably with sound. It is way too cool to miss.

Chapter 18: "Electrochemistry

• http://www.chem.ualberta.ca/courses/plambeck/p102/p02115.htm
• This site relates principles of electrochemistry to the corrosion of metals. Has examples and links to related topics.
• http://www.chem.orst.edu/classes/Ch411/rest/scbatt.htm#top
• ... has some good definitions, but is mostly way above our level. It would probably be interesting to someone who wanted to know a lot more about batteries than we are covering in class.
• http://www.chem.ualberta.ca/courses/plambeck/p102/p0207x.htm
• a great source to go over again what we have gone over in class.
• http://www.fuelcells.org/
• This site has some exciting information about alternative uses of electrochemistry in providing clean and cheap energy for automobiles and other machinery in which normal batteries are usualy employed.
• http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/stanley/teaching/chem.html
• This is a site all about electrochemistry. Loads of helpful information.
• http://www.mlc.lib.mi.us/~stewarca/corrosion.html
• It is only a link to many sites. I just couldn't narrow it down they were all rather interesting. I easily spent an hour just viewing all the links. My favorite were the government sites.
• http://c.chem.ualberta.ca/courses/plambeck/p102/p02103.htm
• This site is helpful for further information on the Nerst equation, and cell potentials. There are drawings of a cell with an example problem.
• ?? http://www.solon.ac.uk/~sl1/EchemGate.html ??
• Good site that discusses electrochemistry.
• http://www.xs4all.nl/~cdewaard/
• It is great, I wish I had found this one earlier. It is almost like a corrosion tutorial.
• http://www.chem.ualberta.ca/courses/plambeck/p102/p02115.htm
• My web site for this week discusses the corrosion of metal and what cathode and anode protection is.
• http://www.esb.ucp.pt/~bungah/equil/nernstja.htm
• I ran across this little webpage which will callculate half-cell potential for you using the Nearnst Equation.
• http://prodeng.nwscc.sea06.navy.mil/battery/p-doc/sect6a.htm
• This page is a very extensive look at Ni/Cd batteries. Unfortunately it does not have any picture or diagrams. It does however, go into gory detail about every aspect of the cell.

Chapter 19: "The Main Group Elements"

• http://c.chem.ualberta.ca/~plambeck/che/p101/index.htm
• From this page there are links to lots of information about the main group elements. It is MUCH more interesting than the book's presnetation and includes some infomation not covered in the book but still at our level.
• http://mwanal.lanl.gov/julie/imagemap/periodic/5.html
• here's a link to info on everyone's favorite main-group element, boron!
• http://www.chem.lsu.edu/htdocs/courseinfo/1001/1001t2.html
• This site is basically a quiz on metals and nonmetals. So if someone wasn't sure that they understood this section of material, they could go to this and quiz themselves.

Chapter 20: "Transition Elements and Coordination Chemistry"

• http://sgich1.unifr.ch/ac/avzbook.html
• From this site you can download a lot of 3-d structures of coordination compounds. There is not much text and some of the lignads are things that we don't yet know about but it it is still an interesting page.
• http://naio.kcc.hawaii.edu/chemistry/transition_metals.html
• it does have a link to some example problems that show how to determine the formal oxidation state of the metal.
• http://gserv1.dl.ac.uk/CFS/applications/tm/tm.html
• this site provides a brief discussion of bonding properties of transition metal complexes.
• http://128.171.125.6/courses/Soil640/CFT.html
• This site provides adequate information on crystal field theory with respect to d-orbital splitting, but the best thing about the site is if you follow the links to JAVA supported digrams they are pretty cool.
• http://overlap.chem.cornell.edu:8080/~landrum/cfield2/cfield2.html
• This site explains the crystal field theory. It is also a step by step system which helps people to understand everything about the CFT. It seems really helpful for those people who don't fully understand the CFT.
• http://vax1.bemidji.msus.edu/~chemistry/transition.html
• This page is not too bad. I couldn't really find a good one. This has a nifty little question and awnser thing. It has some interesting fact.
• http://jcbmac.chem.brown.edu/baird/Chem22I/lectures/slides53.html
• The addres I found has the structures of mtal complexes.
• http://www.crl.com./~peters/naming/
• The naming of inorganic compounds

Chapter 21: "Metals and Solid-State Materials"

Chapter 22: "Nuclear Chemistry"

Chapter 23: "Organic Chemistry"

Chapter 24: "Biochemistry"

Prof. John H. Enemark
The Department of Chemistry
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A.

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