# Solute

> A free, self-paced college chemistry course: fifteen learning modules with worked examples and practice, a twelve-investigation laboratory program, assessments, an interactive periodic table of all 118 elements, a growing glossary that goes past the modules into equilibrium, kinetics, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, and organic chemistry, twelve step-by-step calculators, and a quick-reference sheet. Content is open and free to reuse with attribution.

## Course
- [About the course](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/about/): mission, structure, and learning design
- [Syllabus](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/syllabus/): outcomes, grading, materials, policies, safety
- [Recommended pacing](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/schedule/): a self-paced, week-by-week path through every class, lab, reading, and milestone
- [Lessons](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/lessons/): Module 0 plus 14 modules: targets, explanations, worked examples, practice
- [Laboratory program](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/labs/): RAMP safety, notebook standard, 12 institutional investigations, and 5 at-home investigations for learners with no institution
- [Assessments](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/assessments/): diagnostics, quiz banks, exam blueprints, rubrics, capstone

## Practice & problem-solving
- [Extra practice](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/practice/): additional problem sets for every module plus a cumulative mixed set, each with fully worked answers
- [Practice exams](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/exams/): three timed unit exams and a cumulative final, each with a fully worked solution
- [Problem-solving playbook](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/playbook/): the five-step frame for quantitative problems, demonstrated on stoichiometry, limiting reactant, dilution, calorimetry, and empirical formulas
- [Naming & reactions](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/naming/): naming ionic, molecular, acid, and hydrate compounds; the polyatomic ions to memorize; predicting products for every reaction type; net ionic equations; oxidation numbers
- [Common misconceptions](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/misconceptions/): the wrong mental models first-semester students build, each with the correct model in its place
- [Laboratory techniques](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/techniques/): how to physically use a balance, volumetric glassware, a burette, a Bunsen burner, and filtration apparatus, and the systematic error each sloppy manipulation introduces
- [Lab math and error analysis](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/labmath/): precision vs. accuracy, uncertainty, percent error, propagation, mean and standard deviation, worked lab examples
- [How the ideas connect](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/connections/): a dependency map of the whole course and what breaks downstream when an earlier idea stays shaky

## Tools & reference
- [Chemistry toolkit](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/toolkit/): 20 calculators (molar mass, empirical formula, stoichiometry, equation balancing, dilution, ideal gas, calorimetry, pH, percent yield, units, sig figs, scientific notation, plus 8 beyond-scope: cell potential, reaction quotient vs. K, buffer pH, first-order kinetics, radioactive decay, Gibbs free energy, degree of unsaturation, titration curve grapher)
- [Interactive periodic table](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/periodic-table/): all 118 elements with configuration, oxidation states, phase, uses, history
- [Quick reference](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/reference/): constants, SI prefixes, polyatomic ions, solubility rules, strong acids/bases, activity series
- [Study toolkit](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/study/): master formula sheet, constants, conversions, problem templates
- [Glossary](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/glossary/): essential first-semester chemistry vocabulary, defined plainly

## More
- [Explore chemistry](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/explore/): everyday applications, careers, data literacy, sustainability
- [Readings & sources](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/resources/): OpenStax reading map, simulations, authoritative data

## Optional
- [llms-full.txt](https://jackblaker.com/chemistry/llms-full.txt): the full plain text of every course document in one file