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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1999  > October  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 October 1999
Vol. 76 No. 10

 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Kicking the Football?1317
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers1319
J. Emory Howell
CUR Institutes: A New Model for Supporting Research with Undergraduates1320
Nancy Mills and Mitch Malachowski
From Past Issues
Save a Tree1322
Kathryn R. Williams
Commentary
Statement of Learning Philosophy: Crystallizing Student Goals and Opening Lines of Communication1325
Mary Anne White
Commentary
Ethical Conduct in Science - the Joys of Teaching and the Joys of Learning1327
Paul M. Treichel Jr.
Commentary
In Defense of the Metallic Bond1330
John J. Gilman
NSF Highlights
Organic Chemistry Course Development in a Forensic Science Program: Use of FT-NMR1332
Ronald Callahan, Lawrence Kobilinsky, and Robert Rothchild
News & Announcements1334
Letters1339
Book and Media Reviews
Organic Chemistry: A Short Course, 10th edition (Harold Hart, Leslie E. Craine, and David J. Hart)1341
Joseph F. Bunnett
Book and Media Reviews
Basic Principles of Inorganic Chemistry (Brian Murphy, Clair Murphy, and Brian J. Hathaway)1341
William E. Acree Jr.
Information Page1342
Book and Media Reviews
The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest (Lawrence M. Principe)1343
Jeffrey Kovac
Book and Media Reviews
The Stille Reaction (Vittorio Farina, Venkat Krishnamurthy, and William J. Scott)1344
John C. Cochran
Book and Media Reviews
Imidazole and Benzimidazole Synthesis (M. Ross Grimmett)1345
Paul G. Rasmussen
Book and Media Reviews
Molecular Reaction Dynamics (K. L. Reid, R. J. Wheatley, S.W. Brydges, and J. C. Horton)1345
Robert Rittenhouse
Book and Media Reviews
Arsenic and Old Mustard: Chemical Problems of Old Arsenical and 'Mustard' Munitions (Joseph F. Bunnett and Marian Mikotajczyk, Eds.)1346
Benjamin Garrett
Book and Media Reviews
Books Noted 1347
Edward J. Walsh
Advertising in This Issue1348

 Viewpoints
Viewpoints
Chemical Education Research: Improving Chemistry Learning1353
J. Dudley Herron and Susan C. Nurrenbern

 In The Classroom
The Franck-Condon Principle and Condon Parabolas in a Physical Chemistry or Quantum Physics Course1363
Jean M. Standard and Brian K. Clark
Franck-Condon Factors and Their Use in Undergraduate Quantum Mechanics1367
John Wright and Theresa Julia Zielinski
Redesigning the Quantum Mechanics Curriculum to Incorporate Problem Solving Using a Computer Algebra System1373
Marc R. Roussel
Quantum Chemistry without Wave Functions: Diffusion Monte Carlo Applied to H and H2+1378
Heather L. Cuthbert and Stuart M. Rothstein
When Do Arrows Not Have Tips?1380
Igor Novak
Visualizing Entropy1382
Joseph H. Lechner
Shuffled Cards, Messy Desks, and Disorderly Dorm Rooms - Examples of Entropy Increase? Nonsense!1385
Frank L. Lambert
Entropy, Disorder, and Freezing1388
Brian B. Laird
Why Equilibrium? Understanding the Role of Entropy of Mixing1391
Mary Jane Shultz
A Simple Derivation of the Boltzmann Distribution1393
Sean A. C. McDowell
The Validity of Stirling's Approximation: A Physical Chemistry Project1395
A. S. Wallner and K. A. Brandt
Applications and Analogies
An Acid-Base Chemistry Example: Conversion of Nicotine1397
John H. Summerfield
Writing in Chemistry: An Effective Learning Tool1399
Jeffrey Kovac and Donna W. Sherwood
Technical Writing and Communication in a Senior-Level Seminar1404
A. S. Wallner and Elizabeth Latosi-Sawin

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
Precise Writing for a Precise Science1407
Roger K. Bunting
ChemKits: A Teacher-Training and Instrument-Sharing Project1409
Mike Mitchell, David Shubert, and Carolyn Herman
Using Data Pooling to Measure the Density of Sodas: An Introductory Discovery Experiment1411
Richard S. Herrick, Lisa P. Nestor, and David A. Benedetto
Analysis of Soft Drinks Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: A Mentorship1414
Arkim Wilson, Craig Myers, George Crull, Michael Curtis, and Pamela Pasciak Patterson
JCE Classroom Activity
Cleaning Up with Chemistry: Investigating the Action of Zeolite in Laundry Detergent1416A
Secondary School Chemistry
Experiments with Zeolites at the Secondary-School Level: Experience from The Netherlands1417
Eric N. Coker, Pamela J. Davis, Aonne Kerkstra, and Herman van Bekkum

 In the Laboratory
The Softening of Hard Water and Complexometric Titrations: An Undergraduate Experiment1420
Helena Ceretti, Enrique A. Hughes, and Anita Zalts
Ascorbic Acid as a Standard for Iodometric Titrations: An Analytical Experiment for General Chemistry1421
Cesar R. Silva, Jose A. Simoni, Carol H. Collins, and Pedro L. O. Volpe
Electrochemical Regeneration of a Spent Oxidizing Solution: Example of a Clean Chemical Process1423
M. Ingles, P. Bonete , E. ExpÓsito, V. GarcÍa-GarcÍa, J. González-Garcia, J. Iniesta, and V. Montiel
Chromatin Isolation and DNA Sequence Analysis in Large Undergraduate Laboratory Sections1426
Ann E. Hagerman
Grignard Reactions in "Wet" Ether1427
David H. Smith
A Simple Supplementary Offset Device for Data Acquisition Systems1429
Thomas Kappes and Peter C. Hauser

 Research: Science and Education
A Simple Model for Understanding Electron Correlation Methods1430
John H. Summerfield, G. S. Beltrame, and John G. Loeser
The Hartree-Fock Self-Consistent Field: An Allegorical Connection Using Two Coupled Harmonic Oscillators1439
Michael Messina
Accurate and Efficient Perturbation Theory by Matrix Inversion1444
B. Cameron Reed
Spontaneity and the Equilibrium Constant: Advantages of the Planck Function1448
Robert M. Rosenberg and Irving M. Klotz
Chemical Kinetics in Constant-Pressure Systems1452
P. L. Corio
Nonlinear Fitting to First-Order Kinetic Equations1457
Ian J. McNaught

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Applications and Analogies
Mice in the Box for Zero-Order Kinetics1458
Francisco J. Arnáiz
Old Rule of Thumb and the Arrhenius Equation1459
I. A. Leenson
Propagation of Errors in Freshman Chemistry Textbooks: A Case Study Using the Magnetic Moment of a Spinning Electron1460
John B. Vincent
JCE Online
Welcome JCE Subscriber! You've Got Online+!1462
Jon L. Holmes
JCE Software
Writing Electron Dot Structures: Abstract of Issue 9905M1463
Kenneth R. Magnell
JCE Software
MacMS: A Mass Spectrometer Simulator: Abstract of Issue 9906M1464
Stephen W. Bigger and Robert A. Craig
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 September 6, 1999
June 22, 2005
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