George G. Stanley

Cyril & Tutta Vetter
Alumni Professor

Choppin Hall Room 614
Phone: 225-578-3471
gstanley@lsu.edu

Except for the Thermodynamic data, which was scanned from Brown, LeMay & Bursten (please acknowledge), these notes do NOT contain any copyrighted material. Feel free to use and modify.

I would appreciate any feedback you might have on the notes.

The notes below are in Microsoft Word 97 & 2000 format (IBM-PC compatible). Macintosh users can usually read them directly into the Mac Word 2000 or higher programs. The files have been scanned for viruses and should be clean. If you find any mistakes, please contact me so I can make corrections. If you make any significant improvements, please contact me so I can update my notes.

Material that we have removed from our current syllabus is at the end of each chapter separated from the regular material by a blank page.

Clicking on the links below will open the Word file on your browser (directly or via Word) or ask you to save it to disk (depending on how your browser is configured). If your browser opens it directly, you need to go to the File menu and select Save or Save As and save the file to the proper location on you computer.

These notes naturally reflect the curriculum as taught in our main sequence General Chemistry Course here at LSU. The course is directed mainly at science & agriculture majors. Your exact content, of course, may be different.

You will probably have to add or subtract material to get the notes to fit with your syllabus.

The notes are NOT tied to any particular text book, but rather are an amalgam of materials from lots of different books and George Stanley's own teaching methods.

We have found that these notes, in conjunction with the old homework assignments and exams, can substitute for a textbook. I, for example, do not require a textbook for my course and most students find that they do not need the textbook.

Our local undergraduate SAACS chapter and our Chemistry Graduate Student Council sell copies of the notes and the last two years of homeworks, homework answer keys, and exams and answer keys.

General Chemistry Notes:

The following chapters are not polished (and sometimes incomplete), but represent a good starting point for your revisions:

A few demonstrations are included in the notes, but most demos that we do are not. For more information on demos performed, contact Prof. Stanley, or check for the future creation of a web link on his teaching page.

The problems in the notes are tied in with Prof. Stanley's teaching method of using study groups in class for homework assignments and in-class questions and discussion. For more information on teaching methods click on the link (not active yet).