Here is a short video illustrating the use of Excel's Solver tool to find coefficients in non-liner equations.

Here is a rough but timely video to help you get started calculating the shape of a titration curve in Excel.

Here is a short video with discussion and demonstrations of the behavior of gases.  It is a largish file (68 MB).  As always, any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Timeline
0:00     Kinetic Molecular Theory
0:50     Pressure and Volume
2:07     Pressure and Temperature
2:58     Pressure and Amount
3:54     Ideal Gas Law
4:45     Mentos geysers
5:27     Soda bottle explosion
5:55     Blooper

Here's the first official episode of the audio podcast. I discuss the new Skype line, office hours, some advice about succeeding in the course, and a little about the role of controversy in science. As always, feedback is greatly appreciated.

Timeline:
0:00     Intro
0:41     Music in the show
1:32     Skype call in line
3:39     Office hours
6:13     Advice about succeeding in the course
15:16   Breaking down math problems
18:40   Controversy in science
22:07   Outro

Here is a ~10 minute video illustrating the use of the Ocean Optics UV/vis spectrometers. It will mostly be of interest to those in upper division Chemistry labs.

Here is a short video that illustrates the process for downloading and installing Microsoft Office 2003 from the UP website.  Thanks for watching and please let me know how it looks.

I'm trying to schedule a few more times for the workshops. It looks like Sunday at 7:10 and Tuesday at 2:30 are the most crowded. 



I'm also trying to get polls working on the blog, so let me know if it doesn't look right or work for you.

Chemistry Communique Episode #0

Well, here is my first shot at a podcast to go with my Chemistry classes.  Any feedback you can provide would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks for listening!

Timeline
0:00     Intro
0:40     Subscribing to a podcast
3:51     Useful software and websites
8:22     NMR Spectroscopy
20:02   Outro

Links
iTunes
Chemistry Communique
Firefox
Wikipedia
Google Reader
Gmail

Welcome to my blog about Chemistry at the University of Portland. I plan to use this site for podcasts, announcements, and discussions mostly centered around my General and Analytical Chemistry classes. I'm pretty new at this so please be patient and give lots of feedback (I can take it).