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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.

Brown, LeMay, Chemistry: The Central Science, 12th AP* Edition (2012)

 

Introduction and Review of Moles and Stoichiometry (Chapters 1-4, 10)

Handouts Web Tutorials Online Lectures: V-casts Textbook Power-points Misc.
Reactions Packet Practice Writing Reactions Stoichiometry Review Chapter 3 Air Bag Lab Background
Extensive solubility chart Reactions Examples and Practice Limiting Reactant Problems Chapter 3 problems Solubility Song I
Stoich-PV = nRT V-cast guide Oxidation Numbers and basic redox Molarity and Stoichiometry Chapter 4 Solubility Song II
  Net Ionic Reaction Writing Stoichiometry and PV = nRT Chapter 4 problems Lyrics for Solubility Song I
    Precipitation Reactions Chapter 10 Hey Little Ions Song
    Applying PV = nRT Chapter 10 problems PV = nRT Song

Thermochemistry (Chapter 5)

Handouts Web Tutorials Online Lectures: V-casts Misc.
    Basic Calorimetry  
    Hess's Law Problems  
    Using Enthalpy of Formation Values  
       

The Electron and Periodicity (Chapter 6-7)

Handouts Web Tutorials Online Lectures: V-casts Misc.
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)

Handouts Web Tutorials Online Lectures: V-casts Misc
Hybridization in Carbon Handout Molecular Structure and Geometry Tutorial Drawing A Lewis Structure Octet Rule Song 
Bonding in Molecules Review Review of Lewis Structures Violations of Octet rule VSEPR Video Clip
VSEPR Chart Lewis Structures, VSEPR, Valence Bond Theory Resonance  
  Molecular Polarity Tutorial Basic Hybridization  
  Info about Covalent Bonding including hybrization Sigma and Pi Bonds  
  Matching structures to geometries practice Molecular Polarity  
    VSEPR Intro  

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  

Kinetics

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

Handouts Web Tutorials Online Lectures: V-casts Misc
Review Guide for Intro to Equilibrium Equilibrium V-cast Practice Equilibrium Problems with Gases Intro to Equilibrium  
  Equilibrium Equilibrium  
    Equilibrium Review  
       

  Equilibrium II:  Acids, Bases

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  

Thermodynamics 

Handouts Web Tutorials Online Lectures: V-casts Misc
 Review Guide for Thermodynamics V-Cast   Thermodynamics   

Electrochemistry

Handouts Web Tutorials Online Lectures: V-casts Misc
Standard reduction Potentials Chart     Electrochem Overview    Voltaic Cell simulation