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Khan Academy: Chemistry
By Khan Academy
Online Course
Self-paced
Khan Academy is one of the leaders in free online education, with the majority of courses being taught by Salman Khan, the site’s founder. It offers a personalized learning resource for all ages delivering interactive courses via videos and practice exercises.
Chemistry is the study of matter: its composition, properties, and reactivity. This material roughly covers a first-year high school or college course, and a good understanding of algebra is helpful.
Syllabus
- Atoms, compounds, and ions
- Chemical reactions and stoichiometry
- Electronic structure of atoms
- Periodic table
- Chemical bonds
- Gases and kinetic molecular theory
- States of matter and intermolecular forces
- Chemical equilibrium
- Acids and bases
- Buffers, titrations, and solubility equilibria
- Thermodynamics
- Redox reactions and electrochemistry
- Kinetics
- Nuclear chemistry
Khan Academy: Organic Chemistry
By Khan Academy
Online Course
Self-paced
Khan Academy is one of the leaders in free online education, with the majority of courses being taught by Salman Khan, the site’s founder. It offers a personalized learning resource for all ages delivering interactive courses via videos and practice exercises.
These tutorials cover topics covered in college organic chemistry course. Basic understanding of basic high school or college chemistry assumed (although there is some review).
Syllabus
MIT Introductory Courses in High School Chemistry
By MIT
Open Courseware
Self-paced
A collection of chemistry courses and resources from across MIT. Some are materials that were used to teach MIT undergraduates, while others were designed specifically for high school students.
Preparation for General Chemistry
By Rutgers the State University of New Jersey via Coursera
Scheduled MOOC
Workload: 48 hours
The course develops critical thinking and analytic problem solving skills within a chemistry context in order to prepare students for success in college-level General Chemistry—a key gateway class required for many undergraduate majors.
Syllabus
Week 1 - Introduction and Warm Up: Preliminary Assessment given to appraise current knowledge and help set goals; introductory material, including matter and energy, classification and properties of matter, scientific measurement and units, significant figures, dimensional analysis, and problem-solving strategies.
Week 2 - Boot-Camp I: Understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, which includes properties of waves, wave-particle duality, the interaction of radiation and matter, the photoelectric effect and the Bohr atom model.
Week 3 - Boot-Camp II: Introducing the concept of mole and understanding how compounds form, by differentiating ionic and covalent bonding, learning how to write molecular and empirical formulas and how to determine percent composition of compounds. Introducing solutions and how to measure their concentration.
Week 4 - Boot-Camp III: Move on to chemical reactions, by understanding how to write balanced chemical equations, use them to perform various stoichiometric calculations and determine the yield of reactions; learning the different types of reactions, including combustion, precipitation, and acid-base reactions.
Week 5 - Boot-Camp IV: Introduction to the thermodynamics of reactions, by discussing energy and energy changes, heat, work, enthalpy, calorimetry, and Hess's Law.
Week 6 - Final Exam Preparation: Reviewing of concepts from Weeks 1-5, in preparation for the final examination.
Chemistry
By The University of Kentucky via Coursera
Scheduled MOOC
Workload: 120 hours
This course is designed to cover subjects in advanced high school chemistry courses, correlating to the standard topics as established by the American Chemical Society. This course is a precursor to the Advanced Chemistry Coursera course. Areas that are covered include atomic structure, periodic trends, compounds, reactions and stoichiometry, bonding, and thermochemistry.
Syllabus
Atoms and Electronic Structure
This unit examines the structure of atoms and their electronic structure as it pertains to the properties of the element.
Periodic Trends
This unit explores periodic trends of atomic size, ionization energy, electron affinity and metallic character and discusses how these characteristics affect the reactivity of the element.
Compounds
This unit covers the formation of compounds, including ionic and molecular, as well as nomenclature of compounds.
Reactions
Writing and balancing equations will be covered in this unit including precipitation, oxidation-reduction, titration, and combustion reactions.
Stoichiometry
The concept of stoichiometry, mathematical relationships resulting from the balanced equation, will be introduced and applied in this unit to understand the concepts of actual, theoretical, and percent yields along with the idea of limiting and excess reactants.
Bonding
This unit will explore the bonding in molecular compounds to understand how electrons are shared and how these connections determine the three-dimensional geometry of molecules.
Thermochemistry
This unit will examine the energies associated with physical processes and chemical reactions, including how to relate a specific amount of reagent to the energy evolved or consumed in a reaction.
CHEM101: General Chemistry I
By Saylor.org
Open Courseware
Self-paced
This chemistry survey is designed to introduce students to the world of chemistry. The principles of chemistry were first identified, studied, and applied by ancient Egyptians in order to extract metal from ores, make alcoholic beverages, glaze pottery, turn fat into soap, and much more. What began as a quest to build better weapons or create potions capable of ensuring everlasting life has since become the foundation of modern science. Take a look around you: chemistry makes up almost everything you touch, see, and feel, from the shampoo you used this morning to the plastic container that holds your lunch. In this course, we will study chemistry from the ground up, learning the basics of the atom and its behavior. We will use this knowledge to understand the chemical properties of matter and the changes and reactions that take place in all types of matter.
Syllabus
Introduction to Chemistry: Reactions and Ratios
By Duke University via Coursera
Scheduled MOOC
Workload: 80 hours
This is the first part of a two part introductory course for students with limited or no background in chemistry; in this part of the course, chemical reactions, stoichiometry, the periodic table, periodic trends, nomenclature, and chemical problem solving will be emphasized. The goal of the course sequence is to prepare students for further study in chemistry as needed for many science, health, and policy professions. Topics include introductions to atoms, molecules, ions, the periodic table, stoichiometry, and chemical reactions. The pattern of the use of ratios in chemical problem solving will be emphasized.
Introduction to Chemistry: Structures and Solutions
By Duke University via Coursera
Scheduled MOOC
Workload: 80 hours
This is the second part of a two-part introductory course for students with limited or no background in chemistry; it may be taken independently of the first part as much of the material is modular in nature. In this part of the course, atomic and molecular structures, interactions of atoms with light, phases of matter, solutions, and quantitative chemical problem solving will be emphasized. The goal of the course sequence is to prepare students for further study in chemistry as needed for many science, health, and policy professions. Topics include introductions to electron configurations and transitions, Lewis dot structures, valence shell electron pair repulsion theory, phases and the energetics of phase transitions, and calculations involving gas laws and solutions.
General Chemistry: Concept Development and Application
By Rice University via Coursera
Self-paced MOOC
Workload: 11 weeks
This course will cover the topics of a full year, two semester General Chemistry course. We will use a free on-line textbook, Concept Development Studies in Chemistry, available via Rice’s Connexions project. The fundamental concepts in the course will be introduced via the Concept Development Approach developed at Rice University. In this approach, we will develop the concepts you need to know from experimental observations and scientific reasoning rather than simply telling you the concepts and then asking you to simply memorize or apply them.
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Atomic Molecular Theory and Atomic Masses
- Structure of an Atom and the Electron Shell Model
- Electron Energies and Orbitals
- Bonding and Structures in Covalent Molecules
- Types of Bonding: Non-Metals, Metals, and Salts
- Energy Changes and Reaction Energies
- Ideal Gas Law and the Kinetic Molecular Theory
- Phase Transitions and Phase Equilibrium
- Chemical Kinetics
- Chemical Equilibrium
- Chemical Thermodynamics
Introduction to Solid State Chemistry
By MIT via edX
Scheduled MOOC
Workload: 180 hours
This first-year University chemistry course explores the basic principles of the chemical bond by studying the properties of solids. Properties such as stiffness, electrical conductivity, thermal expansion, strength, and optical properties are the vehicle by which you can learn a great deal of practical chemistry.
You will see how experts use their knowledge of trends in the periodic table to predict the properties of materials. 3.091x is an engineering course so there is an emphasis on applications and how materials are used. The on-campus version of the course has been taught for over forty years and is one of the largest classes at MIT.
This course will cover the relationship between electronic structure, chemical bonding, and atomic order, and characterization of atomic arrangements in crystalline and amorphous solids: metals, ceramics, semiconductors, and polymers (including proteins). There will be topical coverage of organic chemistry, solution chemistry, acid-base equilibria, electrochemistry, biochemistry, chemical kinetics, diffusion, and phase diagrams. Examples will be drawn from industrial practice (including the environmental impact of chemical processes), from energy generation and storage (e.g., batteries and fuel cells), and from emerging technologies (e.g., photonic and biomedical devices).
What you'll learn
- You will develop your “chemical intuition”
- A quantitative understanding of chemical principles
- Understanding of crystal structure and its relationship to properties
- Materials properties such as conductivity, optical transmission, stiffness, thermal expansion, and strength
- An understanding of electronic structure, chemical bonding, and atomic order and arrangements
Basic Science: Understanding Experiments
By The Open University via FutureLearn
Scheduled MOOC
Workload: 12 hours
This practical, hands-on course aims to help you start thinking like a scientist by carrying out experiments at home and making scientific observations.
You will carry out simple experiments to extract the DNA from fruit or vegetables, observe osmosis in action and bake a potato to destruction! You’ll also investigate how different liquids behave when frozen and how much water an everyday food item contains.
As you carry out these experiments you will develop important science-based skills including observation, record-keeping, data analysis and how to control an experiment. After examining your results, you will share them with other learners and discuss your findings.