Community College of
This is the Homepage of Dr.
Crystal Lin
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The courses I am teaching Spring 2008 are shown
below.
Click on the course in which you are enrolled to reach the specific course
website.
For general tutorials for general chemistry and organic chemistry, scroll down
further.
Chem
107 (Fundamentals of Chemistry – Lecture)
Chem 108 (Fundamentals of Chemistry –
Lab)
GRADES - Beginning Spring 2008, CCBC will no longer mail final grade
mailers. View your grades QUICKER by using the SIMON online system. (Go to the CCBC
Homepage, click MY CCBC, enter
user name and pin.) If an official hard copy is needed, one may be obtained at any
Records and Registration Office.
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Useful
Chemistry Tutorials & Worksheets with Answers for Gen Chem & Organic
Chem:
Need
Acrobat Reader (free) software that allows you to view some of the tutorials?
Download from here: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
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Math Review for General Chemistry
I (Requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader)
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Test Yourself On Your
Scientific Calculator Skills (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
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Tutorial on the Use of the
Scientific Calculator (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
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Tutorials on Significant Figures
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Practice Problems on Handling Significant
Figures During Calculations
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Practice Problems on Unit
Conversion (Requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader)
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Practice Problems Dealing with Density
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Printable Periodic Table (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
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How to Customize The
Computer Keyboard to Fit the Chemist (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
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Distinguishing
Amongst the terms: Atoms, Molecules, Elements, Compounds (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
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Understanding Conceptual
Figures (in PowerPoint Format)
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Practice Problems on Working
with Grams, Moles, Avogadro's number, Stoichiometry (Requires Adobe Acrobat
Reader)
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Answers to Practice Problems on Working with g, mol,
Avogadro's number, Stoichiometry
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Solubility Rules you should know well
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Practice Questions Involving Solubility Rules of
Ionic Compounds
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How to Write Ionic Equations
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Tutorial on Solving Molarity &
Dilution Problems
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Practice Problems on
Thermochemistry (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
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Answers
to Practice Problems on Thermochemistry (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Tutorials on Nomenclature
(systematic naming of chemicals):..
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Nomenclature of
Inorganic Compounds: A Tutorial with Drills
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Nomenclature: Answers to
the Drills
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Nomenclature of Straight-Chain
Alkanes (Requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Tutorials on
Molecular Bonding:..
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How to Write Lewis Structures (Requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader)
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How to Determine Formal Charges (Requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader)
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What is meant by the “EXPANDED
OCTET”? (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
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Determination of Molecular Geometry
& Hybridization Based on VSEPR (Requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader)
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Tutorial on
Resonance Hybrids
Tutorials for Organic Chemistry:..
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Index of Hydrogen Deficiency (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
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Lecture on Oil Refineries (& on
BTX) (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
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Brief Review of IR Analysis
(from Chem 203 - 5th Edition, January 2008 - Appendix 3) -Adobe
Acrobat Reader required
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Major IR
Absorptions (from Chem 203 - 5th Edition, January 2008 -
Appendix 4-Part I) -Adobe Acrobat Reader required
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Overall View
of IR Absorptions (from Chem 203 - 5th Edition, January 2008 -
Appendix 4-Part II) -Adobe Acrobat Reader required
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Brief
Review of 1H- NMR Analysis (from Chem 201- 6th
Edition, August 2007 - Experiment #11) -Adobe Acrobat Reader required
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Major 1H-NMR
Shifts (from Chem 203 - 5th Edition – January 2008 - Appendix 5)
-Adobe Acrobat Reader required
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For Organic Chem
students: Link to VERY good website for practice in analyzing NMR spectra
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Extra
practice on R and S assignment (UCLA website for use in Chap. 3)
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Extra
practice on pKa, position of organic acid-base equilibria (UCLA
website for use in Chap.4)
Tutorial on Mathematics Used in Gen Chem
II:.
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Tutorial on Logarithm for
Gen Chem II students
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Click here to see which topics in the ACS GENERAL
CHEMISTRY Study Guide pertain to Chem 121 students
(Updated
Click here to see which topics in the ACS ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Study Guide pertain to Chem 200 students (updated Nov, 2006)
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Useful Chemistry Links
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For Organic Chem students: Link
to SDBS (Spectra Data Base System)
You are requested not to download
more than 50 spectra and/or compound structure files in one day
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For Organic Chem
students: Overview of IR Spectroscopy with table of absorptions
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For Organic Chem
students: Link to textbook website
for useful animation, tutorials & quizzes. (Requires Access Code.)
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Click here to go to the Towson Chemistry
Tutor Center Homepage (Lots of helpful tutorials here for
both General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry!)
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Click
here to Explore Interesting Facts
About Elements
·
Feeling “down”
and need to be perked up? Click
here.
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Click here to see
pictures of elements in their natural states.
· Click here to go to Chem Finder to find the physical properties of compounds.
·
Click here to
go to website to download ISIS DRAW,
software for drawing organic molecules. (no fee for academics)
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Advisement Areas
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· UM School of Pharmacy Website
· PCAT
·
Pre-Dental (Link to U of
UMB
admission requirement for DDS (Doctor of Dental Surgery Program)
UMB
admission requirement for Dental Hygiene Programs
· Bridge Program (to Morgan State U for CCBC Students, possibility of paid summer research)