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About This Issue: The Solid State Resources CD
Acknowledgment John W. Moore, Editor Jon L. Holmes, Senior Technical Editor
The Preface to Teaching General Chemistry: A Materials Science Companion lists the many individuals who have contributed to the materials science education project. Those to whom we are particularly grateful for assistance with the production of this CD include Ann Cappellari, S. Michael Condren, David Gan, Jill Gettings, Jerry Jacobsen, Ludwig A. Mayer, and Laura A. Wright. We thank the National Science Foundation for funding this project and NSF staff Susan Hixson, David Nelson, Stanley Pine, and Robert Watson for their helpful suggestions. We acknowledge the support of Joan Comstock, Robert Marks, Cheryl Shanks, and Cheryl Wurzbacher ofthe American Chemical Society and the staff of JCE:Software. We also thank the many colleagues and students who have given us valuable feedback after use of the material on this CD in classes and in workshops.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706 This CD-ROM supports and enhances teaching based on the Materials Science Companion. The printed format is far better suited to reading and studying long passages of text than the CD, but the CD provides easy searching for topics or key words, point and click access, and animation and video that simply cannot be duplicated in print. I t will be a n invaluable tool for anyone teaching introductory chemistry a t high school or college level. Solid-state topics are a n important aspect of such courses and can be learned far more effectively through the animations and video included here. A teacher might use video clips of solid-state demonstrations to view a demonstration and learn how to perform it before committing the resources to purchasing or constructing materials needed to perform it in class. The video clip might be shown to a class, perhaps during or after the live demonstration. I t is possible to step through one frame a t a time or pause a t any frame to call attention to small details that could be missed in a live demonstration.
Figure 5. Cleavage of an ionic crystal (excerpted from a video sequence on the CD). Figure 4. Ferrofluid in a magnetic field (excerpted from a video sequence on the CD). To Order This CD-ROM
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