Physical chemistry teaching improvement

Student learning can be enhanced by several factors, including a demonstration of relevance to current research and improved methods of communicating the abstract concepts in physical chemistry. For instance, numerous examples in physical chemistry come from outdated experiments. Michelle Francl reports on her project to overcome this drawback by teaching students the fundamentals of physical chemistry using recent articles from the literature. 

I sincerely hope that what has inspired me during a long lifetime, of more than 50 years of research and teaching at the Moscow Quant Power Sources Institute and at the A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, will continue to inspire current and future specialists and people in general who work to improve our lives and solve our problems. 

Physical Chemist who specializes in Sonochemistry, teaches undergraduate and postgraduate Chemistry and is a senior academic staff member of the School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne. Ashok is a renowned sono-chemist who has developed a number of novel techniques to characterize acoustic cavitation bubbles and has made major contributions of applied sonochemistry to the Food and Dairy industry. His research team has developed a novel ultrasonic processing technology for improving the functional properties of dairy ingredients. Recent research also involves the ultrasonic synthesis of functional... 

Almost everywhere the topic of radioactivity is taught in the physics or chemistry classes of secondary schools. The question has been raised whether the common approach of teaching this topic would contribute to a better understanding of the risks of ionizing radiation and, if the answer is negative, how to explain and improve this situation How to effectively teach this topic and relate how solvents are involved is important (Eijkelhof, 1996). 

Chemistry was for Boerhaave an Art, that teaches us how to perform certain physical operations, by which bodies that are discernible by the senses, or that may be rendered so, and that are capable of being contained in vessels, may by suitable instruments be so changed, that particular determin d effects may be thence produced, and the causes of those effects understood by the effects themselves, to the manifold improvement of various Arts. This long-winded definition is merely... 

Why is a direct influence of the periodic system on the structure and the content of textbooks expected Meyer and Mendeleev were both writing textbooks when they arranged their periodic systems. Their intentions were to improve the methods for teaching. This provides a simple explanation for the notable influence of their ideas on textbooks after 1870. A survey of German school textbooks was conducted for the time period of 1870 ° to 1910, in which several editions of a book were examined. This allowed for the observation of changes in the didactic approaches and in the selection and order of the material. Furthermore, the Zeitschrift fiir mathematischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht [Journal for Instruction in Mathematics and the Natural Sciences] and the Zeitschrift fiir den Physikalischen und Chemischen Unterricht [Journal for Instruction in Physics and Chemistry] were reviewed in their entireties. 

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