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In the Classroom
Chemical Principles Revisited
Teaching Entropy Analysis in the First-Year High School Course and Beyond
Thomas H. Bindel
Pomona High School, Arvada, CO 80005

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November 2004
Vol. 81 No. 11
p. 1585

Abstract
A 16-day teaching unit is presented that develops chemical thermodynamics at the introductory high school level and beyond from exclusively an entropy viewpoint referred to as entropy analysis. Many concepts are presented, such as: entropy, spontaneity, the second law of thermodynamics, qualitative and quantitative entropy analysis, extent of reaction, thermodynamic equilibrium, coupled equilibria, and Gibbs free energy. Entropy is presented in a nontraditional way, using energy dispersal.
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Bindel, Thomas H. J. Chem. Educ. 2004 81 1585.
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General Chemistry; Introductory / High School Chemistry; Thermodynamics
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