This study investigates how high school students respond to an environment of authentic science inquiry while participating in an intensive summer institute, the Waksman Student Scholars Programme at Rutgers University. We examined how students apprenticed with expert scientists in a study of contemporary questions in molecular genetics. Students…

This paper reports on a student summer project performed in 2006 at the University of Frankfurt. It is addressed to undergraduate students familiar with the basic principles of relativistic quantum mechanics and general relativity. The aim of the project was to study the Dirac equation in curved spacetime. To obtain the general relativistic Dirac…

The chemistry version of the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS-Chem) is a new instrument designed to measure students' (novices') beliefs about chemistry and learning chemistry compared to those of experts (instructors). This survey is intended to measure the effects of students' beliefs on learning, and to understand how…

Presents the spectra of the flames of three gaseous mixtures, together with analyses of the rotational, vibrational, and electronic contributions to the spectra. (MLH)

Describes an experiment in which the beam of X-rays is simulated through the use of a laser as a monochromatic light source and the crystal is replaced by photographically prepared masks. A strong diffraction pattern as large as 20 cm. can be obtained. (GS)

Describes exercises using simple ball and stick models which students with no chemistry background can solve in the context of the original discovery. Examples include the tartaric acid and benzene problems. (GS)

Chemical bonding, for most simple complexes, is described in the Mulliken-Walsh Molecular Orbital (MO) theory. (CP)

The purpose of this paper is to show how symmetry selection rules can be used to determine whether certain of the electronic transitions exhibited by the title compounds are allowed or forbidden by symmetry. (Author/CP)

Reviews the phase transfer technique for conducting reactions between molecules with widely different solubility properties. (SL)

Discusses the perturbational molecular orbital (PMO) approach for qualitative prediction of reactivities and stabilities of organic molecules. (SL)

Describes a 12 hour minicourse in Huckel molecular orbital (HMO) theory presented as part of a senior level chemical bonding course. (SL)

Provides prize exam questions utilized by other teachers in the assessment of analytical techniques and molecular orbital theory. (SL)