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| Volume 9B Number 1 | ||
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| In This Issue | ||
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| CAI for Chemistry | ||
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Lesile Glasser, John D. Bradley, George Brink, and Pam van Zyl
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| COS: Organic Reaction Drills Based Upon Collective Organic Syntheses | ||
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Victor I. Bendall
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| Beer's Law: A Computerized Experiment | ||
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Jacqueline L. Scott
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| About This Issue | ||
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John W. Moore, Jon L. Holmes, and Nancy S. Gettys University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706-1396 |
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This issue is out of print. |
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How to Use These Programs This issue contains three very different programs, but all are designed to be used directly by the student, as a study session or homework assignment or in the laboratory. The Chemistry CAI programs are very useful practice and review sets for general chemistry and advanced high school students. They cover a broad range of topics in the general chemistry curriculum. The instructor can monitor student performance in these exercises. Sufficient questions are available so that no two students are likely to see exactly the same questions. Enough helpful, non-judgmental information is provided that students can learn from their mistakes painlessly and also receive an explanation of why a particular answer is correct. The Periodic Table Trends program is appropriate for use as an in-class demonstration as well as a student exercise. Beer's Law is also intended for introductory level chemistry students, but is for use in the laboratory. It provides an introduction to spectroscopy and Beer's Law and also is good preparation for the KineticsLab experiment. If you have IBM's PSL equipment this is an excellent way to use it in the general chemistry curriculum. A detailed laboratory experiment for the analysis of alcohol in wine, thoroughly tested by students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is included. COS is intended for a very different audience. It provides drill and practice appropriate to graduate level students of synthetic organic chemistry. It should prove to be in invaluable tool in preparation for qualifying examinations. It also provides a quick review of organic reactions for any scientist who wants to refresh his or her memory. This program is not intended for use by introductory (sophomore) level students of organic chemistry. The reactions and reaction mechanisms are well beyond the scope of an introductory course. All of these programs are easy to use with complete directions visible on screen. Hardware and Software Requirements Programs in Series B of JCE: Software require an IBM PC-compatible microcomputer with 640K RAM, a hard disk, one floppy disk drive, and VGA or better graphics. DOS 5.0 or greater is required. In addition to the above, COS requires a hard disk with approximately 5.75 MB space. Beer's Law requires a Personal Science Laboratory (1) with temperature probe and photometric or radiometric probe. Additional materials are also required to build the Blocktronic PSL photometer (2). Literature Cited |
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Last Updated: March 19, 2001 Created: December 10, 1996 |
Created by: J.L. Holmes Comments to: jceonline@chem.wisc.edu |
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| © 1997 Division of Chemical Education, Inc., American Chemical Society. All rights reserved. | |