Mr. Palko's AP Chemistry Resources and Handouts
General Information about AP Chemistry The Syllabus Unit Guides
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Some General Resources for AP Chemistry
"Virtual Textbook" is a complete online General Chemistry Text.
Click on 151 for first semester and 152 for second semester. This site has lecture notes, problem sets and answers, and practice exams. It is really well done!
More online tutorials and practice. You'll find all types of study material here!
AP Chemistry Online from Berkely High School. Complete set of online lectures. Sign up for the AP problem of the day to be sent to your email. Great stuff here!
Click here for Mr. Reid's Online Lectures and Notes are podcasts of AP Chem class lectures from another high school.
Mr. Bergmann and Mr Sams pioneered the use of podcasts for chemistry instruction. Click here for their website to find podcasts and resources for many chemistry topics.
NMSI AP Chemistry Site. This is a fantastic collection of video instruction and notes. Some is directly related to old AP Free Response Questions. Look at the review tab for excellent test prep material.
Click on the left textbook to go to the online component of our textbook: Chemistry: The Central Science. The blue book is another excellent resource available online.
Introduction and Review of Moles and Stoichiometry (Chapters 1-4, 10)
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| Basic Calorimetry | |||
| Hess's Law Problems | |||
| Using Enthalpy of Formation Values | |||
The Electron and Periodicity (Chapter 6-7)
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| Successive Ionization Energies of the Elements | The Bohr Model background info | Online Periodic Table | |
| Tutorial on Electron Configuration | |||
| Another electron configuration tutorial | |||
| Transition metals |
Ionic and Covalent Bonding (Chapter 8-9)
Intermolecular Forces, Liquids, Solutions (Chapter 11 and 13)
| Handouts | Web Tutorials | Textbook Powerpoints | Online Lectures: V-casts | Misc |
| Flow Chart of IM Bonding | IM Bonding | Lecture Notes (chapter 11) | Intro to IM Bonding | Dissolving NaCl animation |
| Concentration Units | Intermolecular Forces | Problem examples (chapter 11) | More IM Bonding | |
| Another Intro to IM Bonding | ||||
| Water and Solutions |
| Handouts | Web Tutorials | Online Lectures: V-casts | Misc |
| Mechanism Handout | Kinetics Tutorial and Virtual Experiments | Introduction to Kinetics | Hydrogen Peroxide Kinetics Simulation |
| Integrated Rate Laws Pod-cast | Mechanism animations | ||
| Mechanisms | |||
Equilibrium: Basics and Solubility Product
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| Review Guide for Intro to Equilibrium Equilibrium V-cast | Practice Equilibrium Problems with Gases | Intro to Equilibrium | |
| Equilibrium | Equilibrium | ||
| Equilibrium Review | |||
| Handouts | Web Tutorials | Online Lectures: V-casts | Misc |
| Ka and Kb tutorial | Introduction to Acids and Bases | Indicators | |
| Equilibrium Calculation with Acids and Bases | Buffer Simulation | ||
| Buffers | |||
| Titrations |
| Handouts | Web Tutorials | Online Lectures: V-casts | Misc |
| Review Guide for Thermodynamics V-Cast | Thermodynamics |
| Handouts | Web Tutorials | Online Lectures: V-casts | Misc |
| Standard reduction Potentials Chart | Electrochem Overview | Voltaic Cell simulation |