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General Announcements

  • Conferences resume this week. Please bring your HW and Exam III

  • You may sign up for the Final Conference by PSB 202 (only location, any time). Dates are from Dec. 3 to Dec. 13.

  • Please Read Chapter 12 and prepare for the final conference.
  • Topics this week-- Chapter 12--Forces between molecules.
  • General Chemistry is a Marathon--studying for the final exam is best done by working every day. Challenge yourself to keep working hard.
  • Need Help? Come to Office hours, PLI, or the Peer Mentoring Services in Collier and Canaday Libraries.
  • Collier Science Library has copies of Chang's textbook and workbook on reserve behind the front desk.
  • General Information
  • Grading Information
  • Peer Led Instructionwith Cara Blankenbicker
  • Peer-Led Instruction Tuesday 7:30-8:30 PM in PSB 264
  • Successful solitary stuggling and other strategies for success
  • Student to student advice
  • 8 Chemistry Commandments
  • PSB Made Easy and PSB Map

    Learning these by heart will help

    1. Units for large and small quantities
    2. Ions
    3. Bonding and Lewis Structures

    Contacting Professor White

    Room PSB 202 Phone x5107
    Office Hours M 10-11, 4-5, W 3-4, F 10-11, 3-4 e-mail swhite@brynmawr.edu
    Peer Led Instruction (PLI) Cara Blankenbickercblanken@brynmawr.edu

    Student Reactions to Lecture

    Solutions to HW Problems

  • More Solutions and more problems from Chem. 103(1).
  • Solutions to assigned problems in Chapter 1.
  • Normally posted after they are "due". You should try to solve them without looking at the solution!
  • Solutions recitation problems 9/5 (units and atoms).
  • Solutions Chapter 2 assigned problems.
  • Solutions to Recitation 2 problems.
  • Solutions to Chapter 3 assigned problems.
  • Solutions to Chapter 4 assigned problems.
  • Solutions to Chapter 5 assigned problems.
  • Solutions to Recitation 3 problems.
  • Solutions to Chapter 6 assigned problems.
  • Solutions to Chapter 7 assigned problems.
  • Solutions to Chapter 8 assigned problems.
  • Solutions to Chapter 9 and Recitation assigned problems.
  • Solutions to Chapter 10 and Recitation assigned structures.
  • Solutions to Chapter 12 .

    Solutions Quizzes and Exams

    1. Solutions to Quiz 1.
    2. Solutions to Quiz 2.
    3. Solutions to Take Home Quiz 3.
    4. Solutions to Exam 1.
    5. Solutions to Quiz 4.
    6. Solutions to Exam 2.
    7. Solutions to Quiz 5.
    8. Solutions to Quiz 6.
    9. Solutions to Exam 3.

    Useful Chemical Links

  • Crystals with Rasmol
  • Liquid Crystalsquasi-ordered.
  • Many, many molecules for Quiz 7 Plug-in installation may be required --try in Collier library.
  • Molecules you can rotate and learn about. Alanine
  • Vitamin C
  • Glucose
  • Ethanol
  • Be sure to attend lab orientation Sept. 1-4 Lab and Lab Sign-up
  • Periodic Table from thecomics
  • Chemistry Colloquia with Speaker Links
  • Ideal Gas Simulation
  • Click on here to launch a second interactive window.
  • Interactive Bohr atom
  • Another Slightly Interactive Bohr atom
  • Colorful Spectra
  • Quantum numbers and atomic orbitals
  • Photo-reaction in your eye
  • Bryn Mawr students conduct research in biochemistry on RNA-protein interactions. About Research

  • Some students are co-authors on scientific papers. Publications

    Get a life!

    Everyone needs hobbies and distractions so when your coursework is done, go exploring. Aside from RNA, here are some of Professor White's hobbies.

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