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Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2004 > April >

Table of Contents

April 2004
Vol. 81 No. 4

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Chemical Education Today

Editorial
Exciting Chemistry and Chemical Education		455
	John W. Moore

Especially for High School Teachers
Use the Journal To Share		457
	Diana S. Mason

Meeting Report
Chemistry Everywhere. The 18th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Iowa State University, July 18-22, 2004		458
	K. A. Burke, Mark Freilich, Thomas J. Greenbowe, and William S. Harwood

Reports from Other Journals: The Science Teacher
The Science Teacher: Spring 2004		462
	Steve Long

Ask the Historian
The Origin of Vinyl		464
	William B. Jensen

Reports from Other Journals: The Physics Teacher
The Physics Teacher: Chemistry and Physics Teachers Have a Lot in Common		466
	Roy W. Clark

Enhancing Research in the Chemical Sciences at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions. Recommendations of a Recent Undergraduate Research Summit		468
	Kerry K. Karukstis and Thomas J. Wenzel

Commentary
Inverting Organic and Biochemistry: A Curriculum Tweak That Benefits All		470
	I. David Reingold

NSF Highlights
Integrating Computational Chemistry into the Physical Chemistry Laboratory Curriculum: A Wet Lab/Dry Lab Approach		475
	Mary E. Karpen, Julie Henderleiter, and Stephanie A. Schaertel

Silver		478
	Jay A. Young

Calcium		479
	Jay A. Young

News & Announcements		481

The Information Page		484

Letters
Using a Graphing Calculator To Determine a First-Order Rate Constant		485
	Todd P. Silverstein

Letters
Using a Graphing Calculator To Determine a First-Order Rate Constant: Author Reply		485
	José E. Cortés-Figueroa

Letters
How Students Use Scientific Instruments To Create Understanding: CCD Spectrophotometers. Can We Afford Affordances?		486
	Roy W. Clark

Letters
How Students Use Scientific Instruments To Create Understanding: CCD Spectrophotometers. We Must Afford Affordances		486
	Eric Malina and Mary B. Nakhleh

Letters
A Simple Way To Determine the Composition of a Binary Mixture?		487
	P. K. Thamburaj

Corrections
Correction re: J. Chem. Educ. 2004 81, 65		487

Book and Media Reviews
The Science of Cooking (Peter Barham)		488
	Cheryl Baldwin Frech

Book and Media Reviews
The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table (Richard Morris)		489
	Daniel Berger

Book and Media Reviews
The Chemcraft Story: The Legacy of Harold Porter (John Tyler)		489
	Jeffrey Kovac

Book and Media Reviews
Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics (Kevin M. Dunn)		490
	Michael S. Matthews

Book and Media Reviews
Survival Handbook for the New Chemistry Instructor (Diane M. Bunce and Cinzia M. Muzzi)		491
	Brian K. Taylor

Advertising in This Issue		492

Out of the Editor's Basket		493


Chemistry for Everyone

The Chemical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Autopsy in Blue		497
	Thomas G. Waddell and Thomas R. Rybolt

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Son of an Organic Chemist of Denmark		502
	Ronald G. Brisbois

Bringing History to the Classroom: Spoofs about Problems in Obtaining Research Grants		503
	Sidney Toby

Chemistry and Song: A Novel Way To Educate and Entertain		507
	Cory C. Pye


In The Classroom

Using Science Fiction To Teach Thermodynamics: Vonnegut, Ice-nine, and Global Warming		509
	Charles A. Liberko

The Big Picture: A Classroom Activity for Organic Chemistry		513
	Thomas Poon

Organic Chemistry Wordsearch		515
	Terry L. Helser

Functional Group Wordsearch		517
	Terry L. Helser

The Proteomics Stock Market Project. A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration in Biochemistry and Business Education		519
	Heath Keller and James R. Cox

Exothermic Bond Breaking: A Persistent Misconception		523
	William C. Galley

JCE DigiDemos: Tested Demonstrations
Double-Diffusive Convection: A Simple Demonstration		526
	Mario Markus


In the Laboratory

Second-Year and AP Chemistry
Isolation of Copper from a 5–Cent Coin. An Example of Electrorefining		530
	Steven G. Sogo

Kinetics of the Osmotic Hydration of Chickpeas		532
	Gabriel Pinto and Ali Esin

A Photochemical Reactor for the Study of Kinetics and Adsorption Phenomena		537
	J. A. Poce-Fatou, M. L. A. Gil, R. Alcántara, C. Botella, and J. Martín

A Practical Integrated Approach to Supramolecular Chemistry III. Thermodynamics of Inclusion Phenomena		540
	Jesús Hernández-Benito, M. Pilar García-Santos, Emma O'Brien, Emilio Calle, and Julio Casado

JCE Classroom Activity
Color My Nanoworld		544A
	Adam D. McFarland, Christy L. Haynes, Chad A. Mirkin, Richard P. Van Duyne, and Hilary A. Godwin

Green Chemistry
Patterning Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold. Green Materials Chemistry in the Teaching Laboratory		545
	Lallie C. McKenzie, Lauren M. Huffman, Kathyrn E. Parent, James E. Hutchison, and John E. Thompson

Investigating Intermolecular Interactions via Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. An Experiment for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory		549
	David Pullman and Karen I. Peterson

Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
Fluorescence Microscopy of Single Molecules		553
	Jan Zimmermann, Arthur van Dorp, and Alois Renn


Research: Science and Education

Chemical Education Research
"We Actually Saw Atoms with Our Own Eyes". Conceptions and Convictions in Using the Scanning Tunneling Microscope in Junior High School		558
	Hannah Margel, Bat-Sheva Eylon, and Zahava Scherz

Chemical Education Research
Factors Influencing Success in Physical Chemistry		567
	Karen E. Hahn and William F. Polik

Chemical Education Research
What Makes Physical Chemistry Difficult? Perceptions of Turkish Chemistry Undergraduates and Lecturers		573
	Mustafa Sözbilir

Measuring Productivity in College-Level Chemistry Education Scholarship		579
	Norbert J. Pienta

Variability of the Cell Potential of a Given Chemical Reaction		584
	Ladislav H. Berka and Ilie Fishtik


Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources

Teaching with Technology
The Effective Use of an Interactive Software Program To Reduce Students' Misconceptions about Batteries		587
	E.-M. Yang, T. J. Greenbowe, and T. Andre

Molecular Modeling of Environmentally Important Processes: Reduction Potentials		596
	Anne Lewis, John A. Bumpus, Donald G. Truhlar, and Christopher J. Cramer

The Big Picture		604
	William F. Coleman

JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
Learning That Prepares for More Learning: Symbolic Mathematics in Physical Chemistry		605
	Theresa Julia Zielinski

JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
Work Done during Reversible and Irreversible Isothermal Expansion of an Ideal Gas		606
	Arthur Ferguson

JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
The Gibbs Free Energy of a Chemical Reaction System As a Function of the Extent of Reaction and the Prediction of Spontaneity		606
	Arthur Ferguson

JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
Mathematica Translation of An Analysis of the Vibrational Spectrum of a Linear Molecule (Richard W. Schwenz)		606
	Laura Yindra

JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
Temperature As a Measure of the Distribution of Particles over Energy States: Would a Negative Absolute Temperature Be Very Cold, or Very Hot?		607
	Arthur Ferguson

JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
Intermolecular Potentials and the Second Virial Coefficient		607
	Patrick L. Holt

JCE SymMath: Symbolic Mathematics in Chemistry
Potential Barriers and Tunneling		608
	Mark Ellison

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