Units and Conversion – Picket Fence Method
This video explains how to convert from one system of units to another. Continue reading Units and Conversion – Picket Fence Method
Category: Chemistry
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Chemistry Quiz 1
The equation for the heat transfer to or from a stream of gas flowing in turbulent motion is as follows: where = heat capacity as Btu is british Thermal Unit; lb = Pound; F = Fahrenheit change D = internal diameter of pipe as inches G = mass velocity as h = heat transfer coefficient as It is desired to transform the equation to a … Continue reading Chemistry Quiz 1
Journal of Chemical Education Sep 2012 Issue
1. The Grapes of Class: Teaching Chemistry Concepts at a Winery Nonscience majors often believe that the concepts and techniques in chemistry have little relevance to someone outside the “ivy-covered walls of academia”. The challenge for science instructors is to develop and implement lessons that present science in a way that will capture the interest of the nonscience major, while remaining rigorous enough to satisfy … Continue reading Journal of Chemical Education Sep 2012 Issue
Cleaning up oil spills with magnetic liquids
Dynamic Periodic Table of the Elements
Daniel Ferry (www.excelhero.com) created this dynamic periodic table in excel and it is very impressive. He conducts the Excelhero academy every year. The Image below is taken from Excelhero and you can download the Source file and play with it. Additional resources: Michael Dayah’s periodic table Elements iPad app Periodic Videos Continue reading Dynamic Periodic Table of the Elements
Chemical Equilibrium
In biology, life is the avoidance of equilibrium, and the attainment of equilibrium is death, but knowing whether equilibrium lies in favor of reactants or products under certain conditions is a good indication of the feasibility of a biochemical reaction (Atkins and de Paula, in Atkins’ Physical Chemistry, Oxford University Press). Chemguide is a good web resource for students studying chemistry. Pedro Mendes demonstrates the kinetics of unimolecular reaction … Continue reading Chemical Equilibrium
Synthetic life
Source: The New Yorker If the science truly succeeds, it will make it possible to supplant the world created by Darwinian evolution with one created by us. The first time Jay Keasling remembers hearing the word “artemisinin,” about a decade ago, he had no idea what it meant. “Not a clue,” Keasling, a professor of biochemical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, recalled. … Continue reading Synthetic life
Art and Science
Directed in 1971 by Robert Alan Weiss for the Department of Chemistry of Stanford University and imprinted with the “free love” aura of the period, this short film continues to be shown in biology class today. Narrated by Paul Berg, 1980 Nobel prize for Chemistry. Dance begins at 3:12 minutes. ♦♦♦ Dance your Phd: Every year there is a competition, the aim of which is to … Continue reading Art and Science
Chemistry in Poetry
Source: Mala Radhakrishnan, assistant professor at Wellesley College, has written a book on poetry chemistry, called “Atomic Romances, Molecular Dances.” Her aim is to use poetry, but also easy-to-understand analogies to teach about thermodynamics, kinetics and molecular reactions. Source I used to sleep ‘ til my electrons would drool At P-32 element-ary school. The things we were taught were just totally boring. A mole of us atoms would … Continue reading Chemistry in Poetry
