Discusses fundamentals of rainbow formation, including the reflection and dispersion theories underlying primary, secondary and high-order bows. Included is a series of further analytical problems. (CC)

This survey of engineering freshmen is the fourth of a series of five surveys seeking to determine the characteristics and attitudes of engineering students and the changes in these areas which occur as the students proceed through their first two years in engineering. Thirteen of the original sixteen schools included in the spring 1977 freshman…

This survey of engineering sophomores is the last of a series of five surveys seeking to determine the characteristics and attitudes of engineering students, and the changes in these areas which occur as the students proceed through their first two years in engineering. Fourteen of the original sixteen schools included in the fall 1975 survey were…

Provided is a study guide for an introductory minicourse to the principles of chemical reactions. This written text is designed to accompany a series of audio tapes and 35mm slides which the student studies at his own pace. The course presents chemical kinetics, reaction mechanisms, reaction rates, and equilibrium. (SL)

This document presents the student's guide for an introductory physics course in electricity and magnetism for students in merchant marine and related degree fields. The unit is competency based and contract graded. The guide includes information on course objectives, examinations, an optional paper, laboratory sessions, grading, course content,…

This catalog contains descriptions of the available biology lessons on PLATO IV, compiled to assist instructors in planning their curricula. Information is provided for 87 lessons in the following areas: experimental tools and techniques; chemical basis of life; cellular structure and function; bioenergetics - enzymes and cellular metabolism;…

Mammo I and Mammo II are two versions of a computer simulation based upon scientific problems surrounding the finds of carcasses of the Wooly Mammoth in Siberia. The simulation program consists of two parts: the data base and program logic. The purpose of the data pieces is to provide data of an informative nature and to enable problem solvers to…

Suggests two uses for the programmable calculator in the freshman chemistry laboratory: as a means of determining whether or not a student's raw data from a laboratory experiment fall within acceptable tolerance limits; and as a means of checking the reliability of unknowns and grading on quantitative experiments. (MLH)

Describes a "feedback course" offered at Brown University, in which undergraduates redesigned the introductory organic chemistry laboratory. The students specified objectives for the ideal lab, then devised laboratory experiments. Laboratory safety was stressed, all dangerous reagents and solvents were eliminated, and toxicological data were…

Designed for first-year students of radiochemistry and atomic physics, this experiment tests the fundamental Moseley Law and introduces the method of elemental chemical analysis by X-ray fluorescence. (Author/MLH)

Describes a computer program, designed for second semester organic chemistry courses, which graphically displays organic synthesis routes on a screen. (MLH)