Inorganic TA seeks single crystal compound for undergraduate lab synthesis, non-trivial structure solution, and maybe more.
What's Your Favorite Lecture?
After introducing my Gen Chem students to the Quantum Mechanical Model of the Atom today and waiting...waiting for that lovely question..."but how does an electron get from one side of the p orbital to the other?", I decided this might be my favorite lecture of the semester.
Foundational course
We're revamping our curriculum to include a foundational inorganic course probably in the sophomore year. I have a couple of questions to those of you who teach this course or are planning such a course.
1. What books do you like? I have struggled to find anything that fits the bill for this type of class.
2. Where do you put the course? Does it usually land in the sophomore year? We currently have quant and organic, but also need to add a more foundational P-chem and biochem. Where does it all fit?
First day of school blues!
Well, its that start of a new academic year. Anybody want to share horror stories or unexpected pleasantness about the first week or so?
First day activity
Molybdate/phosphate spectrophotometric analysis
We are developing a spectrophotometric analysis lab for Gen Chem looking at nitrate and phosphate concentrations in water samples from different locations in the Willamette River.
Cool first day activities?
Inorganic Nomenclature
We all hate it...yet we all need it. Short of buying IUPAC's two versions of the Little Red Book, do people know of good resources? There's the Wikipedia page on the 2005 "reforms" here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC_nomenclature_of_inorganic_chemistry_…
Scientist code of ethics
I am working on a syllabus for an upper division lab and thought that it would be great to have my students sign some sort of a scientific honor statement in order to try to foster an atmosphere of honesty in data collection and reporting. Has anybody done this or something similar? Was it successful? Does anybody have a good one? Of course I would reference you:)
Thanks,
Tim
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