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Chapter 8: Basic Concepts of Chemical Bonding: Tutor: Interpreting Lewis Electron Dot Structures; Tutor: Drawing Lewis Structures; Exercise: Drawing Lewis Structures; Tutor: Resonance Structures; Formal Charges Tutorial; The VSEPR Jmol Molecule Visualization Page; Tutor: Ideal Repulsion Shapes; Tutor: Determining Molecular Shapes; Exercise: Determining Molecular Shapes; Tutor: Electron Deficient Compounds; Exercise: Determining Polarity; Molecular Polarity; Tutor: Sigma Bonding; Tutor: Determining Hybrid Orbitals; Tutor: Multiple Bonding Pi Bonding

Chapter 9: Molecular Geometry and Bonding Theories: Tutor: Hybridization 1; Tutor: Hybridization 2; Exercise: Identifying Bonding and Antibonding Orbitals; Tutor: Homonuclear, Diatomic Molecules; Metallic Bonding; Simulation: Metallic Bonding: Band Theory; Exercise: Semiconductors

Chapter 25: Organic Chemistry - An Introduction: Tutor: Functional Group Identification; Exercise: Identifying Isomers vs. Conformers; Tutor: Predicting the Products of Addition Reactions; Exercise: Identification of Elimination or Substitution Reactions; Simulation: Markovnikov's Rule; Tutor: Amino Acids and Proteins

Chapter 10: Gases: Gas Laws; Tutor: Ideal Gas Law; Simulation: Ideal Gas Law; Simulation: Determining Gas Density; Density of Gases; Tutor: Finding Molecular Weight of Gases; Exercise: Exploring Gas Density; Tutor: Determining Molar Mass; Tutor: Stoichiometry of Gases; Tutor: Partial Pressures 1; Tutor: Partial Pressures 2; Simulation: Kinetic Molecular Theory; Gas Phase Boltzmann Distribution; Simulation: Boltzman Distributions; Tutor: Molecular Speed; Exercise: Diffusion; Tutor: Effusion

Chapter 11: Intermolecular Forces, Liquids, and Solids: Boiling Points; Tutor: Enthalpy of Vaporization; Tutor: Heat of Vaporization from Graph; Tutor: Vapor Pressure at New Temperature; Tutor: Heat of Vaporization from Temperature and Pressure; Simulation: Vapor Pressure; Equilibrium Vapor Pressure; Exercise: Butane Lighters; Simulation: Molecular Structure and Boiling Point; Simulation: Vapor Pressure and Boiling Point; Exercise: Phase Diagram; Exercise: Calculating Density from Ion Radii and Structure

Chapter 13: Properties of Solutions: Exercise: Solubility; Enthalpy of Dissolution; Exercise: Dissolving Ionic Compounds; Exercise: Factors Affecting Solubility 1; Tutor: Factors Affecting Solubility 2; Tutor: Effect of Temperature Change on Solubility; Raoult's Law; Tutor: Vapor Pressure and Boiling Point Elevation; Exercise: Vapor Pressure Changes and Raolt's Law; Tutor: Boiling Point Elevation; Tutor: Freezing Point Depression; Boiling Point Elevation and Freezing Point Depression; Exercise: Effect of Ionic Compounds on Boiling Point; Exercise: Effect of Ionic Compounds on Freezing Point; Tutor: Osmotic Pressure

Chapter 14: Chemical Kinetics: Tutor: Concentration Dependence; Simulation: Concentration Dependence; Exercise: Determining the Rate Equation; Rates of Reaction; Tutor: Concentration-Time Relationships; Tutor: Determining the Rate Law; Simulation: Reaction Coordinate Diagrams; Exercise: Identification of Reaction Mechanisms; Exercise: Reaction Mechanisms and Rate Equations; Simulation: The Arrhenius Equation; Tutor: Temperature Dependence 1; Tutor: Temperature Dependence 2; Tutor: Temperature Dependence 2; Exercise: Temperature Dependence; Exercise: Identifying Catalysts 2; Exercise: Identifying Catalysts 1; Exercise: Identifying Catalysts 3

Chapter 21: Nuclear Chemistry: Simulation: Isotopes; Radioactive Decay; Tutor: Binding Energy; Simulation: Nuclear Stability; Tutor: Radiochemical Dating 1; Tutor: Radiochemical Dating 2