Describes an experiment for an introductory chemistry laboratory for engineering students in the electroplating of dielectric substances. (SL)

Discusses the biocidal/toxicological applications of organo derivatives of true metals. (SL)

Describes laboratory experiments illustrating the multiple metal-metal bond systems suitable for undergraduate level lecture courses. (SL)

A five-week introductory unit on electricity, structured in a historical perspective provided by the letters of Ben Franklin, is described. (CP)

Describes an experimental procedure for the analysis of common cations in solution for an introductory analytical chemistry course. (SL)

Reports an experimental procedure for introductory chemistry courses to demonstrate a homogeneously catalyzed reaction. (SL)

Describes an undergraduate biochemical experiment involving the isolation and characterization of acid phosphatase from readily available materials. (Author/SL)

Describes an undergraduate biological chemistry laboratory experiment which provides students with an example of pseudo-first-order kinetics with the cardiac glycoside inhibition of mammalism sodium and potassium transport. (SL)

Describes a photochemistry experiment involving the quenching of uranyl luminescence by alcohols. (SL)

Describes an experiment wherein simple gamma-ray detection and analysis techniques were utilized to study radioactivity in local precipitation. (Author/SL)

Presents a method for demonstrating Seebeck, Peltier, and Thomson effects in a single experiment. (SL)

Discusses the need of introducing corrections due to wire stiffness arising from end constraints and wire axis distribution curvature in the measurement of ac electrical frequency by exciting transverse standing waves in a stretched steel wire. (SL)

Describes an experiment for estimating the half-life of thorium-232. (SL)

An introductory biophysics course for science students who have previously taken two quarters of noncalculus physics is described. Material covered emphasizes the physical principles of sound, light, electricity, energy, and information. (Author/CP)

The authors give directions for comparing the rates of zero and first order chemical reactions to the rate of flowing water in simple physical systems. They also show how to compare chemical equilibrium to the level of water in a u-shaped tube. (AJ)