Educational Resources

General Education

Learning and Study Guide

A one-page handout that gives suggestions on how to effectively learn material during the course and prepare for exams. There are also suggestions on how to best take exams.

Assessing Student Knowledge

A one-page handout reviewing the the difficulty level of questions encountered in science classes: recall, algorithmic, conceptual.

Symbol Font

The Symbol font character associated with each key.

Additional Characters

The ALT-#### characters in normal (Arial and Roman) and Symbol Font.

Additional Characters

The ALT-#### characters in normal (Arial and Roman) and Symbol Font.

Education as a Business

A document that counters the 'Education is a Business' arguments put forward by lazy students, their parents, school boards, governments, businesses, etc. The Blueberry Story also provides good counter-arguments to the 'Education is a Business' mantra.

Chemical Education

The DEFINITIVE Periodic Table — filled with data on all the elements.

Fits on legal paper. Can be printed as a poster for your office wall (30×50 cm), classroom (90×150), or bigger(!) without loss of clarity or resolution. (Given the small print, bigger might be better!)

Periodic Tables

An Excel document containing periodic tables in several formats: symbols only, symbols and names, and blank, etc. Detailed information on each element is available as a single page print-out.

Energy Conversions and Equivalencies

Two convenient tables that convert between energy units commonly found in chemistry: kJ/mol, cm^-1, eV, Hz, kcal/mol, Hartrees, etc. Table one provides the conversion factors. Table two is a quick-reference look-up for the IR to UV range: 25000 nm (400 cm^-1) to 100 nm (100000 cm^-1).

Symmetry Table

The common symmetry assignment table. The page also includes the Mulliken symbols used to identify states. A good handout.

Fullerenes

Models to build several fullerenes: C₆₀, C₇₀, C₈₀, C₉₀, and a C_n nanotube.

GradeKeeper (for teachers)

An Excel spreadsheet for instructors to record and visualize student grades. Details are provided in the link (or below).

Physical & Analytical Chemistry

Statistics in Analytical Chemistry

A review of basic statistics: accuracy, precision, tolerance, null hypothesis tests (Q, F, t), propagation of error, and regression analysis.

Statistical Reference Data

An Excel spreadsheet that contains standard statistical tables: Q-test, one and two-tailed F-test, and one and two-tailed t-test. All tables give the values at user-definable or multiple confidence levels.
The file also determines the uncertainty in a value determined from a linear regression analysis (i.e., read off a graph).

MathCad Files

A collection of MathCad programs that illustrate various phenomenon in chemistry.

NIST Documents

The following documents are reprinted from the National Institute of
Standards and Technology. They are not copyrightable in the United States.

SI Unit Rules and Style Conventions

A checklist-style summary of the recommended format for scientific publications. Additional information available from the NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty.

Formatting Text in Scientific Publications

A summary of how normal, bold, italics, and bold-italics fonts are used to define constants, functions, and variables. Additional information available from NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty.

Scientific Constants

The 1999 scientific constants. Additional information and a searchable index is available from the NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty.