Discusses an experiment on friction to illustrate the "law" governing the relationship of the friction force to the volocity of air track cars. (CC)

The first part of this publication is a study of students' math skills and logical abilities and their success in an introductory college chemistry course. A 29-item instrument was developed and administered to 343 students. Test scores for students who received either A or B in the course were compared with scores for those who received either D…

This document provides abstracts of 116 laboratory experiments/demonstrations currently being utilized in all areas of engineering education at 52 universities across the United States. (SL)

This report describes three innovative instructional programs which have demonstrated that carefully designed non-traditional instruction can have a positive influence upon student performance. The programs are the mathematics program of the Clearwater Campus of St. Petersburg Junior College, the biology program of Miles College, and the chemistry…

This document presents the student guide for a course designed to introduce students to oceanographic research techniques. The course combines lecture-demonstration, field trips, and independent study, and is graded based upon a final exam and a student research paper. (SL)

Included in this publication are 20 papers related to teaching chemistry in two-year colleges. The papers are presented under the following categories: Innovative Teaching; Allied Health; Chemistry as a Career; Chemical Technology; and Chemistry for Non-Science Majors. Most of the papers were presented at two meetings (Regina and Houston). (RH)

Describes an experiment designed to acquaint the chemistry student with polymerization reactions, vacuum techniques, liquid scintillation counting, gas-liquid chromatography, and the handling of radioactive materials. (MLH)

Describes an experiment in which luminescence is observed during a reaction between sodium borohydride and trisbipyridalruthenium (III). Includes a discussion of the theory of chemiluminescence. (MLH)

Suggests replacing traditional organic chemistry laboratory exercises with experiments involving an elementary research approach. The student is provided with short laboratory projects, normally involving simple reactants and products; it is an important criterion that the reactions chosen are not normally featured in student textbooks. (MLH)

Cautions biology instructors to be aware of the possible overproduction of life science scholars whose future may include unemployment or underemployment. Urges that these instructors provide their students with knowledge for employment outside the traditional educational and research fields. (MLH)

Discusses the Peltier, or thermoelectric effect, which provides a way of cooling a system by coupling it thermally to the junction of two materials suitably chosen, shaped, and connected to a d.c. current. Describes an apparatus which simply and inexpensively demonstrates this effect. (MLH)

These projects utilize musical instruments to teach the physics of sound by investigating standing waves in strings and plates, main resonance of stringed instruments, loudness curves, and analysis of tones. Can be adapted for secondary level or college level instruction. (MLH)

Describes a computer program which permits students to check their calculations while they are still in the laboratory by entering their raw data and calculated results via a teletype terminal situated in the lab. The input is examined and the student is informed of the nature of each error. (MLH)