Welcome to Chemistry 203 Summer 2020.
Course Catalog Description
Topics include equilibrium, acid-base equilibria, solubility equilibria, kinetics, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, coordination compounds, nuclear chemistry and descriptive topics in organic chemistry. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course.
Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in Chemistry 201 or consent of department chair (CC).
Note: Chemistry 203 has an IAI code of CHM 912. You can learn more about IAI by visiting iTransfer.
Instructor
Prof Joy Walker
Learning About Volcanos at Crater Lake
I'm a professor emeritus for the City Colleges of Chicago. I was a tenured professor for 30+ years at Truman College. I love to learn and share my enthusiasm for learning. I have many interests. I enjoy learning about science, gardening, cooking and baking, linguistics and languages, drawing, painting and crafting, and literature. I believe we learn best when we are curious, excited, interested and engaged in our own learning processes.
Textbook
We will use Chemistry: Atoms First 2e by Flowers, Neth Robinson, Theopold and Langley. This book is available free as part of the openstax access project. Visit https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry-atoms-first-2e?Book%20details to learn more about openstax.org
If the file size of the book is too large try downloading it in these four parts:
Supplies
You will need to have a copy of the periodic table that you can easily use. For this reason I recommend printing the periodic table or if you have a chemistry textbook then that works too. Periodic Table
For chapters 9 & 12 you will need to have the thermodynamic tables that are in the appendix of all chemistry text books. Thermodynamic Table
You should always have a calculator available. I use a TI-30X IIB in class in case you want to have the same one I use.
Recommended Links
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- The Purplemath Forums Helping students gain understanding and self-confidence in algebra
- Online Graphing Calculator
Kinetics
Acid-Base Chemistry
Laboratory Simulations
Complex Ions
Nuclear Chemistry
Videos
- Chemistry of the Nonmetals