Gathered here are copies of course handouts, materials related to unit exams (including practice exams), answer keys for worksheets, useful website, and video clips.

Course Handouts

• Introduction
• abbreviated syllabus
• Unit I: Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table
• six versions of the periodic table of the elements
• elements and ions
• deriving a theoretical model for the hydrogen atom
• Unit II: Structures and Properties of Inorganic Compounds
• electron-pair arrangements for AX_n
• geometries for inorganic compounds
• meridional model
• facial model
• electronegativity scales
• bonding models for inorganic molecules and ions
• melting points for some selected compounds
• Unit III: Reactivity and Other Properties of Inorganic Compounds

Unit Exams

• Unit I: Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table
• review sheet
• practice exam; supplement; key
• unit exam; unit exam key
• Unit II: Structures and Properties of Inorganic Compounds
• review sheet
• practice exam; supplement; key
• unit exam; unit exam key
• Unit III: Reactivity and Other Properties of Inorganic Compounds
• review sheet
• practice exam; supplement; key
• unit exam; unit exam key
• Final Exam
  • review of Unit I
  • review of Unit II
  • review of Unit III

Answer Keys for Worksheets and Take-Home Assignments

• Unit I: Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table
• naming simple inorganic compounds worksheet
• atomic emission/absorption worksheet
• photoelectric effect worksheet
• coulomb's law/ionization energy worksheet
• first ionization energy worksheet
• photoelectron spectroscopy worksheet
• a deeper look at shell model worksheet
• the wave model of electrons
• visualizing atomic orbitals
• atomic orbitals and an electron's energy
• madelung's and slater's rules
• practice problem for slater's rules
• periodic trends in properties of elements I
• periodic trends in properties of elements II
• practice problems for avee
• take-home 01
• take-home 02
• take-home 03
• Unit II: Structures and Properties of Inorganic Compounds
• drawing Lewis structures and correlating with bond orders, bond lengths, and bond energies
• predicting structures and explaining reactivity for inorganic compounds
• predicting polar vs. non-polar
• molecular orbital diagrms for four diatomic oxygen species
• comparing bond types
• take-home 04
• take-home 05
• Unit III: Reactivity and Other Properties of Inorganic Compounds

Videos and Other Links

• Solid-State Structures: Photos of Whiteboards
• left board (simple cubic and body-centered cubic)
• right board (face-centered cubic)

• Reaction of Alkali Metals with Water

• Complexation of Co²⁺ with H₂O and Cl^-