Sunday, February 10, 2019

What is chemistry?

Lots of students study "chemistry" at school, often because High School Chemistry is a prerequisite for some tertiary course they'd like to undertake in the future. But how many of these students start their chemistry course with a good understanding of just what chemistry is?
It's time to come to terms with the unique adventure that is chemistry ....
https://www.ausetute.com.au/chemistry.html

Sunday, February 3, 2019

Orbital Diagrams

There are lots of ways to represent the electron configuration of an atom.
An orbital diagram provides a lot of information very quickly about how the electrons in an atom are arranged. AUS-e-TUTE has a new set of resources to help you draw and interpret orbital diagrams:
https://www.ausetute.com.au/orbitald.html

AUS-e-TUTE Members should log-in to play the orbital diagrams game, and answer the orbital diagrams test and exam questions (with worked solutions for the questions you answer incorrectly).