The Honors Element
The Honors Element is a podcast created for Penn State Honors General Chemistry students, exploring the fundamental ideas that shape how we understand the chemical world. Each episode connects core concepts to real-life applications while preparing students for upcoming lectures.
Episodes (40)
Why Molecules Take the Shapes They Do (PLA 42)
Bonding, Antibonding, and Nonbonding in Molecular Orbital Diagrams (PLA 41)
Covalent Bonding (PLA 40)
The Real Cost of Making Ions and Why Coulomb Pulls It Off (PLA 39)
Ionization Energy and Electron Affinity Explained (PLA 37)
Building Atoms, Predicting Properties (PLA 36)
Mastering the Rules: Aufbau, Pauli, and Shielding with Slater's Rules (PLA 35)
Seeing Orbitals: Making Sense of s and p (PLA 34)
The Shape of p Orbitals and the Story of Nodes (PLA 33)
Diving into s Orbitals and Quantum Numbers (PLA 32)
Further Unpacking the Particle in a Box (PLA 31)
Introducing the Schrödinger Equation and Particle in a Box (PLA 30)
Understanding the Bohr Model (PLA 29)
Painting with Light: Understanding Atomic Line Spectra (PLA 28)
Unveiling the Photoelectric Effect (PLA 27)
The Systematic Chemistry of Solutions and Reactions (PLA 25)
Light as Waves and Particles (PLA 26)
Bridging Acid-Base Chemistry and Redox Reactions (PLA 24)
What Makes Acids and Bases Strong or Weak? (PLA 23)
Understanding Colligative Properties (PLA 22)
Understanding Solubility and the Common Ion Effect (PLA 21)
Layers, Limits, and Living with Miscibility (PLA 20)
Temperature and Chemical Equilibrium (PLA 19)
Dynamic Equilibrium in Gases (PLA 18)
The Dynamics of Equilibrium (PLA 17)
Tying It Together with Phase Transitions and Diagrams (PLA 16)
Vapor Pressure and the Clausius-Clapeyron Equation (PLA 15)
The van der Waals Fix (PLA 14)
When Ideal Gases Fail (PLA 13)
Mixing It Up: Understanding Partial Pressures and Dalton’s Law (PLA 12)
Maxwell-Boltzmann Distributions and the Kinetic Molecular Theory (PLA 11)
The Postulates and Power of Kinetic Molecular Theory (PLA 10)
Barometers, Atmospheric Pressure, and Super-Long Straws (PLA 9)
Atmospheric Pressure and Force on Surfaces (PLA 8)
How Calorimetry Really Works (PLA 7)
Looking at Work and Heat in Depth (PLA 6)
Heat and Work: Partners in Thermodynamic Change (PLA 5)
Total Energy and Thermodynamic Systems (PLA 4)
Splitting Water and Harnessing Energy (PLA 3)