Chemistry 101A
On Campus Study Resources
Office Hours - Confused about a homework problem? Need clarification on a lecture topic? Not quite sure about that lab follow-up question? Drop by and talk with me during office hours! Check the syllabus for the my office hour schedule and location.
Supplemental Instruction (SI) - These study groups meet weekly and focus on understanding course content through group activities. SI leaders are former 101A students who were specially selected and trained to lead these collaborative learning sections. SI sessions rely on structured group work. Please arrive on time and plan to stay for the duration of the session (one hour). Additional hours are available. Although sessions may exceed one hour, how long you stay beyond the first hour is up to you. Session times and leaders will be announced during lectures.
Learning Assistance Center - Free drop-in tutoring!! Located on 2nd floor of the library. A tutoring schedule will be posted next to the chemistry storeroom (S-203).
MESA - The MESA Center, located in Science 142, offers a casual study environment and is part of an excellent program supporting economically disadvantaged students majoring in science, technology, engineering or math.
Online Study Resources and Review
Study Guides and Strategies - Find great study skills advice!
Purplemath - Need help with algebra? Purplemath is a great algebra source.
The General Chemistry Survival Manual - A series of notes for students in General Chemistry lecture classes at Pima Community College. If you would like more practice with Dimentional Analysis Problem Solving, take a look at the handout linked from this site. There are problems at the end of the handout and answers are provided as a separate document.
An Introduction to Chemistry, by Mark Bishop - This is a preparatory chemistry textbook (i.e. appropriate content for Chemistry 40 here at CCSF) and may be helpful for a review of the prerequisite material. The whole textbook is available as pdf files online! If you use the site regularly, the author asks that you pay $20 for the priviledge. It's on the honor system, so please be honorable. (You know how much textbooks cost! Having access like this is amazing... Pay your 20 bucks.)
Balancing Chemical Equations Tutorial - This is a Mark Bishop tutorial. There are tutorials on other topics that you may find helpful as well.
Other Useful and/or Entertaining Links
Dynamic Periodic Table of the Elements- The "properties" tab is particularly neat!
LabWrite - PreLab, InLab, PostLab guide to laboratory work.
Advice on Keeping a Lab Notebook - This is advice for a research laboratory notebook, though much of the advice still applies to a class notebook. Reading this certainly gives you a glimpse of the importance of the laboratory notebook.
The Research Notebooks of Linus Pauling - Linus Pauling, like any good scientist, recorded his data, observations and thoughts in great detail. Part of the Pauling Special Collection at the Oregon State University, these digitized notebooks are fascinating to read through. If you don't know anything about Linus Pauling, the Wikipedia article is a good place to start.
Powers of Ten - From the galaxies to quarks. Each successive image is smaller by a power of ten!
Tom Lehrer's Elements song and his New Math song. You've just gotta love him!
Let me know if you have an interesting link that you'd like to share.