E-mail: peter.bird@concordia.ca

Former research area: Inorganic/organometallic synthesis and X-ray crystallography

Courses

The following are courses that I have taught during my career at Concordia.

• Chemistry 205 - General Chemistry I
• Chemistry 206 - General Chemistry II
• Chemistry 241 - Inorganic Chemistry I (Bonding)
• Chemistry 242 - Inorganic Chemistry II (Main Group Elements)
• Chemistry 341 - Inorganic Chemistry III (Transition Metals)

Instructional Applets and Scripts

The following were mostly originally written as Java applets and more recently converted to Javascript to avoid browser security issues:
(The java applets still work with Internet Explorer if the Java security settings are set appropriately.)

• The Rigid Rotor Java only
• A Ball and Stick Diagram Java only
• Vibrations on Drumskins Javascript, or Java
• The Bohr Atom Javascript, or Java
• The Electronic Spectum of Atomic Hydrogen Javascript, or Java
• The DeBroglie Wave Javascript or, Java
• A Spectrometer Java only
• The Atomic Orbital Radial Distribution Function Javascript or, Java
• The Wave Functions for Atomic Orbitals Javascript or, Java
• The Molecular orbitals of Diatomic Molecules Javascript or, Java
• Practice Your VSEPR Theory Javascript or, Java
• Properties of Waves Javascript or, Java
• Acid Base Titrations Javascript or, Java
• Nuclear Screening Simulation Javascript or, Java
• One-dimensional band simulation Javascript or, Java
• Molecular Symmetry Javascript only.