Interactive Learning
Dear CHEM 101 Students:
The following web links are very useful and interesting to enhance your understanding for the course materials.
Chapter 1:
Chapter 2:
- Messenger Chatting between Thomson & Rutherford (in Arabic) Very interesting
- Rutherford Experiment.
- Interactive Periodic Table.
- C&EN Interactive Periodic Table.
- Formation of Ionic Compound (Sodium Chloride as an Example).
- Naming Binary Ionic Compounds.
- Playing Interesting Games with Naming Binary Ionic Compounds.
Chapter 3:
- The Mole Concept.
- Empirical and Molecular Formulas.
- Balancing Chemical Equations.
- Stoichiometry.
- Limiting Reactants (I).
- Limiting Reactants (II).
- Excess and Limiting Reactants.
- Guide Sheet for Mole Problems.
Chapter 4:
- Why Does Salt Dissolve in Water?
- The Concept of Molarity.
- Making a 0.1M NaCl Solution.
- Molarity: Worked Examples I.
- Molarity: Worked Examples II.
- Electrolytes and Nonelectrolytes.
- Difference Between a Strong Acid and a Weak Acid.
- Solution Stoichiometry.
- Acid-Base Titration.
- Common Oxidation Numbers.
- Oxidation States.
Chapter 5:
Chapter 6:
- Wavelengths and colors.
- The Emission Line Spectra of Hydrogen Atom.
- Play with Bohr's Model of Hydrogen Atom.
- Bohr's Model.
- Electron Configuration I.
- Electron Configuration II.
- Hund's Rule.
Chapter 7:
- Effective Nuclear Charge.
- Atomic Radii.
- Ionization Energy I.
- Ionization Energy II.
- Definition of Electron Affinity.
- Periodic Table with lots of information!
Chapters 8 & 9:
- Interactive Periodic Table (Very Useful!!)
- Atomic Radii.
- Atomic Radius vs. Ionic Radius.
- Formation of Ionic Bonds.
- VSEPR Theory I.
- VSERP Theory II.
- VSEPR Model.
- Molecule Geometry.
- The Concept of Hybridization.
- Valence Bond Theory and Orbital Hybridization.
Chapter 11:
- Properties of Gases.
- Animated Boyle's Law.
- Animated Charles' Law.
- Avogadro's Law.
- Molecular Model for an Ideal Gas.
Chapter 12:
- Vapor Pressure.
- Run a Heating Curve Experiment.
- Phase Diagram.
- Packing of Spheres (Simple Cubic Packing).
- Packing of Spheres (Body Centered Cubic Packing).
- Packing of Spheres (Cubic Close Packing).
Chapter 13:
General: