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Study Aids for Chemistry
"Unless otherwise noted, all handouts and materials on this website were developed by Liina Ladon of the Chemistry Tutoring Center at Towson University. Permission is granted to use and duplicate these materials for non-profit educational use, under the following conditions: 1) No changes or modifications will be made without written permission from the author. 2) The user will acknowledge the source and copyright interests of the author by attaching the following statement: '© Copyright, 2001, L. Ladon. Used with permission.' and 3) 'Permission is granted to provide hyperlinks to this site, but not to individual handouts. Please notify owner by e-mail:
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Thank you for your cooperation. Liina Ladon
I am in the process of revamping the page. I will be supplying the
handouts as the Microsoft Word document version in addition to the the
original html format. I hope that the new Word version will be crisper,
more printable, and I've made just a few wording changes for clarity and corrected
some errors. As I finish each, you will see an additional link for
the Word version. In the near future (January 2008), I will also be
creating the pdf files for many of these handouts. Based on
feedback/requests, I will continue to add problem sets associated with each each
topic.
General Chemistry
Chemical Equilibria This handout deals with qualitative and quantitative aspects of chemical equilibria.
Word document format
Anders Nielsen has put together a nice site on Chemical
Equilibrium. His site includes some practical applications of chemical equilibria. I highly recommend it as a resource.
Concentration Units: This handout deals with concentration units such as weight percent, molarity, molality, parts per million, and how to interconvert between these units.
Word document format
Empirical Formula: This handout deals with determining the empirical formula of a compound from the percentage composition and other types of experimental data.
Word document format
Energy Calculations This handout deals with energy calculations encountered in a freshman general chemistry class.
Here are some
practice problems for Hess' Law.
Acid/Base Equilibria This handout deals with acid/base equilibrium calculations.
Acid/Base
“Toolbox” 
A
compilation of useful equations used in acid/base
calculations.
Writing the Formula of Inorganic Compounds This handout deals with how to write the formula of an inorganic compound from its name.
Word document format
Ideal and Real Gases This handout deals with the various ideal gas laws and the van der Waals real gas law.
Word document format
Chemical Kinetics This handout deals with determining the rate law and the energy of activation from experimental data.
Here are
some practice problems for kinetics.
Drawing Lewis Structures This handout provides some helpful tips on drawing Lewis structures.
Word document format
Limiting Reagent This handout deals with how to do limiting reagent problems.
The new Word document has an expanded, improved version of this handout.
Word document format
Net Ionic Equations New and improved!! This handout deals with how to write net ionic equations.
Electrochemistry
This handout deals with
galvanic cells, cell potentials, and electrolysis.
Chemical Reactions This handout deals with different types of chemical reactions, how to recognize them, and how to predict products.
Suggestions for Studying General Chemistry This handout has some very useful study tips for general chemistry.
Dr. Crystal Yau, another friend and colleague at CCBC Catonsville, has graciously allowed me to include her handouts on this web page:
Rounding Off Numbers This handout deals with how to round off numbers using scientific notation.
When to Use Scientific Notation As the title implies, this handout deals with knowing when to use scientific notation.
Organic Chemistry
Hybridization of Carbon This handout reviews sp3,sp2 and sp hybridization of the carbon atom.
Organic Synthesis Strategies This handout provides insight on planning an organic synthesis.
Drawing Resonance Structures This handout deals with how to draw resonance structures.
Determination of R/S Configuration This handout has my unique method for assigning group priorities to determine the R/S configuration of optically active organic compounds.
Strategies for the Identification of an Unknown Organic Compound This handout provides strategies for identifying an organic compound from experimental data.
Determining Ortho, Meta and Para Substitution This handout provides an easy way to predict ortho, meta or para substitution on monosubstituted benzene rings.
Drawing Mechanisms This handout provides help in learning how to draw
mechanisms.
Here are some other useful chemistry resources for teachers:
Concept Tests and Challenge Problems developed by our department. Due to differences in browsers, I can't guarantee you won't have to edit each page, but if the Universe is kind, you should be able to print these out for use on overhead projectors or use them with other multimedia formats. I am in the process of
converting these files to Adobe Acrobat files which should eliminate most formatting difficulties.
Concept Tests developed outside of our department.
Curious about what we do at Towson University for our introductory courses? Visit our
Introductory Chemistry Web site.
Here are the syllabi for courses I have taught:
Here is the challenge problem on acids and bases.
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Last revision: March 27, 2008