The Nature of the Chemical Concept
Title | The Nature of the Chemical Concept PDF eBook |
Author | Keith S Taber |
Publisher | Royal Society of Chemistry |
Pages | 403 |
Release | 2022-06-29 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1839167459 |
This book offers a step-by-step analysis and discussion of just why some students find chemistry difficult, by examining the nature of chemistry concepts, and how they are communicated and learnt.
Stuff
Title | Stuff PDF eBook |
Author | Klaus Ruthenberg |
Publisher | Königshausen & Neumann |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Chemistry |
ISBN | 3826037049 |
Theories of Chemistry
Title | Theories of Chemistry PDF eBook |
Author | Svante Arrhenius |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Chemistry |
ISBN |
Nature of Science in General Chemistry Textbooks
Title | Nature of Science in General Chemistry Textbooks PDF eBook |
Author | Mansoor Niaz |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2011-07-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9400719205 |
Research in science education has recognized the importance of history and philosophy of science (HPS). Nature of science (NOS) is considered to be an essential part of HPS with important implications for teaching science. The role played by textbooks in developing students’ informed conceptions of NOS has been a source of considerable interest for science educators. In some parts of the world, textbooks become the curriculum and determine to a great extent what is taught and learned in the classroom. Given this background and interest, this monograph has evaluated NOS in university level general chemistry textbooks published in U.S.A. Most textbooks in this study provided little insight with respect to the nine criteria used for evaluating NOS. Some of the textbooks, however, inevitably refer to HPS and thus provide guidelines for future textbooks. A few of the textbooks go into considerable detail to present the atomic models of Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr and wave mechanical to illustrate the tentative nature of scientific theories --- an important NOS aspect. These results lead to the question: Are we teaching science as practiced by scientists? An answer to this question can help us to understand the importance of NOS, by providing students an HPS-based environment, so that they too (just like the scientists) feel the thrill and excitement of discovering new things. This monograph provides students and teachers guidelines for introducing various aspects of NOS, based on historical episodes.
Contemporary Chemistry
Title | Contemporary Chemistry PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Edward Fournier d'Albe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Chemistry |
ISBN |
The Beauty of Chemistry
Title | The Beauty of Chemistry PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Ball |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 391 |
Release | 2021-05-11 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0262044412 |
Images and text capture the astonishing beauty of the chemical processes that create snowflakes, bubbles, flames, and other wonders of nature. Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking, vegetable-growing, and producing the materials of daily life. In stunning images and illuminating text, this book captures chemistry as it unfolds. Using such techniques as microphotography, time-lapse photography, and infrared thermal imaging, The Beauty of Chemistry shows us how chemistry underpins the formation of snowflakes, the science of champagne, the colors of flowers, and other wonders of nature and technology. We see the marvelous configurations of chemical gardens; the amazing transformations of evaporation, distillation, and precipitation; heat made visible; and more.
Uncle Tungsten
Title | Uncle Tungsten PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Sacks |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2013-12-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0804172153 |
Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals–also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded. In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks’ extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his “Uncle Tungsten,” whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes–in his own home laboratory. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.