Welcome to Chemistry Online!
ChemistryOnline.com has been designed for use in Introductory Chemistry (Chemistry 101) and the first semester of General Chemistry (Chemistry 112) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). It parallels the topics covered in most similar courses and is also widely used by other colleges and universities. This site hosts lecture slides, lecture recordings, exam review material and a set of interactive (algorithmic) Tutorials that cover many of the key topics in these courses. The site is maintained by Professor Paul Young (pyoung@uic.edu) and the slides and other content on the site are based on his lectures. In practice, many of the other instructors in this sequence also utilize the same (or similar) content, making the site useful to all Introductory and General Chemistry students at UIC.
The sequence of topics that are covered are based on the text, Introductory Chemistry Online, also written by Paul Young. The text consists of eleven chapters (about 200 pages) followed by lecture-slide mini-prints and sample exams in an inexpensive, black & white, spiral-bound textbook (about $60) and is available on LuLu.com. Students typically utilize the "mini-prints"in lecture, directly annotating the slides and working in-class problems; the goal is to allow them to "write less and listen more". Instructors using the book are welcome to download (editable) versions of the lecture slides for class use (please PRY directly). The complete text of the First Edition is also available online (free) through ChemistryOnline.com and a more limited version is available on WikiBooks.
Why the Registration??
Students in the program at UIC are "encouraged" to use the website to review lecture material and to prepare for exams. The Tutorials offered online are especially useful for problem-solving practice. In order to "reward" this practice, user names and their online activity (within the Tutorial pages) is logged so that the instructor can view their efforts and assign credit by whatever means he/she desires. UIC students should use their UIC email address for their Username; you may use any password… Others are also invited to register, or you may simply login with the username/password of guest/guest.