Chemistry 101 - Fall 2002 Fundamentals in Chemistry I Sections 540-550

Course Information

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• How to Succeed in Chemistry 101 and 102
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• Math Review: Useful for reviewing the basics!
• Graphing Using Excel: A tutorial very useful for lab!
• Student Resources for our Textbook: Click on our book. You'll find interactive excercises, on-line quizzes for each chapter plus other fun stuff!
• Toward Success in College! A well-written funny on-line book - You'll enjoy this!
  
• Molecular Models: A 3-D look at molecules from Chapters 7 and 8 - developed for CHEM 107 by Michael Cain at TAMU. You will need to download some software - just follow the directions on the page.
• The Collective: A terrific collection of molecular visualization links. Use these to enhance your understanding of chemical processes and reactions.
• The Chemicool Periodic Table: Everything you wanted to know about the elements!
• The Periodic Table of Comic Books! Now, that's fun!
• The Periodic Table of Poetry! Does this count as a humanity course?
• Virtual Chemistry Club (American Chemical Society): This site includes puzzles, mysteries and Ask-A-Chemist).
• Scientific American Online and Science Online: two terrific science magazines on the web.
• Science is Fun! The homepage of Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, a man who shares his love of Chemistry with others - lots of great demonstration ideas!
• The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project For giggles! The scientific investigation of the common Twinkie. T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. stands for "Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations."
• Reference Site: Martindale's "The Reference Desk: Science Tables & Databases." This site is a part of a more complete website for science education links, supported by UC Irvine.
• A FUN On-Line Course: A set of over 1200 lecture slides and 33 animations for a two-semester 8-credit hour General Chemistry course! Good for background. It even includes on-line quizzes. The presentations have been organized to follow the text Chemistry for Today, 2nd Edition by Seager and Slabaugh which is published by West Educational Publishing. Check it out!
• The ChemTeam: a great tutorial of high school chemistry - in progress! This site has practice problems and answers.
• More on the Theory of Atoms in Molecules.
• Bad Science - What is it?
• For a SCIENCE break, visit one of the many Science Museums located around the world!