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“OK, I can see waves in a Slinky. You tell me that similar things happen in light waves. I can see that when light interacts with chemicals some cool things can happen. But, I can’t see the connection.” For many students there is a large disconnect between the models of waves we show them and the phenomena that we explain using those wave models. How can we constructively move our students’ understanding of waves from the mechanical models we show them to the chemical phenomena the waves explain? The video and images from Chemistry Comes Alive! (CCA!) Volume 8 can help.
A visual library containing more than 220 QuickTime movies and more than 2500 still images, Chemistry Comes Alive! Volume 8 features the kind of chemistry that is sure to spark an interest. Whether you browse through the table of contents or search with keywords, CCA! 8 makes it easy for you to find the movie or image you seek to add interest to your presentation. CCA! 8 covers a broad range of wave phenomena and spectacular chemical reactions while also offering chemical insight into commonly asked questions.
How To Use Chemistry Comes Alive!
Each Chemistry Comes Alive! CD-ROM works like a Web site—you access it using a WWW browser such as Firefox or Internet Explorer. You locate content using:
- Hypertext table of contents
- Visual interface that parallels the table of contents
- Search for a topic or word
A comprehensive table of contents and searchable index of all Chemistry Comes Alive! volumes has been compiled and is available at JCE Online. Using these online tools you can find video and images and determine the CCA! volumes that contain those videos and images.
Videos and still images can be easily bookmarked in your browser for quick, convenient presentation to a class directly from the CCA! CD-ROM. You can also view movies using the QuickTime Player using the links conveniently provided on each page with a video clip. You can incorporate images and video into a PowerPoint or other multimedia presentation or into a lesson written in HTML (sample lessons are available on CCA! 8). Directions for using CCA! video clips are available online. You can use the CCA! video and images freely in your own presentations, but additional licensing is required in order to place any Chemistry Comes Alive! content on your local WWW server or LAN.
Let us know how you use Chemistry Comes Alive! in your classroom or laboratory teaching. We will share with others all ideas that we receive. Please contribute to JCE any new presentations or lessons using CCA!, so that others can benefit.
About the Chemistry Comes Alive! (CCA!) Series
The Chemistry Comes Alive! series includes seven additional CD-ROMs (1–7). CCA! emphasizes the chemistry by showing the reactions and techniques close up. Each volume includes closely related materials chosen by a group of knowledgeable chemistry teachers. Many, but not all, movies include audio from the reaction and a voice-over narration, which is also provided as text on the same page with the video. CCA! includes chemical reactions, demonstrations, and laboratory techniques that illustrate important aspects of chemistry, involve substances or equipment that are not readily available in many schools, are hazardous, or cause problems of disposal or cleanup. The movies and images of CCA! are certain to stimulate students’ curiosity and help them learn.
Acknowledgments
Partial funding for Chemistry Comes Alive! was provided by the National Science Foundation, New Traditions, grant DUE-9455928 and National Science Foundation, Instructional Materials Development grant ESI-9154099.
Many individuals made significant contributions to the development of Chemistry Comes Alive! 8. The following people contributed to producing various video selections: George Gilbert (Denison University), Fred Mattes (Hastings College), David Shaw (Madison Area Technical College), Steven D. Gammon (Western Washington University), Barry V. O’Grady (University of Tasmania), Lynn R. Hunsberger, Kara Bruce, Kristin Johnson, Nazanin Tondravi, Megha Desai, Erica Jacobsen, Julie Lynn Harris, Kelly Lucht (all University of Wisconsin–Madison), Ilia Guzei (Crystallography Laboratory, University of Wisconsin–Madison), Tony Tautges (Whitewater High School), David Whisnant (Wofford College). We also acknowledge the vocal talents of Kelly Houston Jetzer, Michael Killips, and Teresa Larson (University of Wisconsin–Madison). Video editing expertise was contributed by Greg Minix (University of Wisconsin–Madison).
Price and Ordering
Chemistry Comes Alive! Volume 8 can be licensed for use. Price: Single user on a single machine: $75 U.S./$95 non-U.S., computer laboratories or local area networks (LANs) with up to 12 computers: $300 U.S./$320 non-U.S. Chemistry Comes Alive! Volume 8 can also be licensed for use on LANs with more than 12 computers, in libraries, and on limited-access WWW servers. Prices for such licenses and other information may be obtained by contacting JCE Software, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706-1396; phone: 608/262-5153 or 800/991-5534; fax: 608/265-8094.
Ordering: CCA! 8 can be conveniently and safely ordered from the JCE Online Store.
Alternatively, an order form is inserted in this issue that also provides prices and other ordering information.
Information about all JCE publications (including abstracts, descriptions, updates) is available from our World Wide Web site.
Hardware and Software Requirements
Table 1. Hardware and Software Required for Chemistry Comes Alive! Volume 8
| Computer |
Macintosh |
Windows compatible |
| CPU |
Power PC
Intel
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Pentium
> 600 MHz
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| RAM |
512 MB
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| Drives |
CD-ROM
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| Graphics |
colors: thousands
res: 1024 × 768
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colors: 16-bit
res: 1024 × 768
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| System Software |
OS X 10.2 or later
System 9.2.2 or later
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Windows XP, 2000
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Other Software
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WWW browser
QuickTime 6 or later
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Content of Chemistry Comes Alive!, Volume 8
| Waves and Particles | | Traveling and Standing Waves Example of a Mechanical Wave
Traveling Waves, Reflection, Interference, and Polarization
Waves in a Slinky
Waves in a Wave Demonstrator
Wave Speed, Reflection, and Interference
Waves in a Ripple Tank
Interference of Sound Waves from Two Audio Speakers
Standing Waves, Line Spectra, Resonance, and Energy Transfer
Standing Waves on a Slinky
Standing Waves on a String
Standing Waves on a Wave Demonstrator
Circular Standing Waves in a Ripple Tank
Standing Waves on Chladni Plates
Standing Sound Waves
Resonance Boxes
Wave Diffraction, Interference, and Scattering Diffraction by an Edge
Wave Diffraction by an Opening in a Barrier
The Effect of a Narrower Opening
Interference Patterns—Waves from Two Slits
Apparatus for Modeling Wave Scattering Light: Wave and Particle Light as a Wave
Reflection of Light
Diffraction of Light
Polarization of Light
Scattering and Absorption of Light
Light as a Particle: Photoelectric Effect
Emission Spectrum of Light Bulb as Function of Temperature
The Photoelectric Effect
The Electron: Particle and Wave The Electron as a Particle
Cathode Rays and the Crookes Tube
Cathode Rays Are Beams of Electrons
Components of a Computer Monitor
Components of an Oscilloscope Tube
Cathode Ray Tube with Pinwheel
The Electron as Wave: Atomic Emission Spectra
Continuous and Discrete Light Sources
Hydrogen, Helium, Neon, Mercury | | Properties of Gases | Atmospheric Pressure
Collapsing Metal Containers
Atmospheric Pollution
Reactions of Sulfurous Acid Affecting Our Environment
Reaction of Nitrogen Monoxide with Oxygen
Reactions of Nitric Acid Affecting Our Environment
Ozone: Absorbance of UV Light
Gas Stoichiometry
Phase Changes
Cloud Chamber
Paramagnetism
| | Reactions in Aqueous Solutions | Chromate–Dichromate Equilibrium
Precipitation Reactions
Rates of Reactions
Relative Reactivity: Strong Acid, Weak Acid, Buffer Solution
Temperature and Reaction Rate
Effect of a Catalyst on Reaction Rate
Oscillating Reaction: Belousov–Zhabotinskii
Acid–Base Reactions
Simple Titrations
Solid Carbon Dioxide in Water
Oxidation–Reduction Reactions
Electrolysis of Aqueous Solutions
Activation of Iron in Nitric Acid
Nitric Acid Acts upon a Copper Penny
Oxidation–Reduction Reactions under a Microscope
| | Bonus Topics | Aqueous Ferrofluid
Magic Sand
Na(s) + NH3(l)
I2(g) + Cl2(g)
Metallocene Catalyzed Polymerization of Ethylene
UV-Sensitive Beads Change Color
Sugar + Sulfuric Acid
"Neon Signs"
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Selected Images from Chemistry Comes Alive!, Volume 8
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