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Chem Collective: Arsenic in Drinking Water
Set in the context of ground water contamination in Bangladesh, this stoichiometry and analytical chemistry activity examines the issues around identifying wells contaminated with arsenic.
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Chem Collective: Osmotic Pressure
When a balloon is filled to near bursting with SF6 is left in air, it will often burst after a period of time. This is because the smaller N2 molecules diffuses into the balloon while the larger SF6 molecules remains causing the balloon...
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Chem Collective: Brownian Motion
Particulate level simulations that show only solute particles are convenient, since they focus student attention on the molecules of most interest. However, such solute molecules move in a Brownian manner. This simulation helps students...
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Chem Collective: Chemical Potential: Staircase Demonstration
As we look for connection points across disciplines, we are increasingly drawn to chemical potential as the connection point. This simulation shows particles thermally distributed on a staircase. A linear increase in energy leads to an...
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Chem Collective: Mineral Composition
In this randomized calculation activity, learners calculate the empirical formula of a compound given its elemental analysis. Step-by-step support and feedback is provided for students who need additional help.
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Chem Collective: Composition Determination of a Mixture
In this activity, students calculate the percent composition of a mixture of two arsenic-containing minerals. Step-by-step support and feedback is provided for students who need additional help.
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Chem Collective: Dna Binding Dyes Scenario
This activity explores the equilibrium of dyes that self-assemble into DNA templates. Students use knowledge of equilibrium and quantitative spectroscopy to explore different dyes that bind selectively to DNA molecules. In this activity,...
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Chem Collective: Meals Ready to Eat
While camping on the Appalachian Trail, a storm dampens all the fire wood and you must design a chemical reaction to heat your meal. In this activity, students design an experiment in the virtual lab to determine the heat of reaction for...
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Chem Collective: Ozone: A Scenario Based Activity in Kinetics
Students use kinetics to interpret raw experimental data to determine the mechanism of ozone destruction. In this pen and pencil activity, students are given data obtained from laboratory experiments to study the ozone depletion reaction.
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Chem Collective: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Food Dyes
An interactive tutorial to determine the amount of dyes present in a powdered beverage in order to examine the allegation that the manufacturer is exceeding the allowable amount of the artificial food dyes in the drinks it produces.he...
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Carnegie Mellon: The 411 on Lyme Disease With Faq
This resource has general information about the bacterial infection lyme disease. The information includes details about the carriers of the bacteria and the infection itself.
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Carnegie Mellon: The Red Badge of Courage
This site provides a hypertext formatted version of the Project Gutenberg edition of Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage."
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Carnegie Mellon: Project Gutenberg: The Human Comedy (Honore De Balzac)
The entire collection of Balzac's novels and short stories, translated to English, is available here in plain text format.
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Carnegie Mellon University: Grimm's Fairy Tales
209 tales by the brothers Grimm are compiled on this web page. Links to each of the tales are provided that will allow you to read the entire translated version of the fairy tale.
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Carnegie Mellon University: Recreating Medieval English Ales
A detailed discussion of how medieval beer was brewed in England. The author presents two recipes and describes his efforts to recreate the ales. He then discusses the history of brewing, the ingredients that were used, and the different...
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Experimental Gameplay Project
Experience the Experimental Gameplay Project at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center.
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Chem Collective: Stoichiometry Bridge Course
This is a complete course in chemical stoichiometry, set in a scenario that shows how stoichiometry calculations are used in real-world situations. This course has been designed to not only help you strengthen your skills with...
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Carnegie Mellon: Graphical User Interface Programming
A discussion of the user interface tools used by programmers to create graphical user interfaces (GUI).
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Carnegie Mellon: General Information on Frederic Chopin
Page contains general information about the difficulty of Chopin's Music. Also included is a picture of Chopin.
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Carnegie Mellon: Vapor Pressure Tank
Basic design of a demonstration machine that will lower the vapor pressure and cause water to evaporate at room temperature.
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Mineral Collection Images
Some nice photos and descriptions of some copper ores.
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Carnegie Mellon: What Is a Fuzzy Expert System?
This site defines what a fuzzy expert system is and provides examples.
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Carnegie Mellon: A Library of Parallel Algorithms
A page for accessing code for a collection of parallel algorithms.The algorithms are implemented in the parallel programming language NESL and developed by the Scandal project. There is a brief description along with its complexity (in...
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Carnegie Mellon: Advice on Research and Writing
This site is dedicated to computer scientists or students who are studying computer science to guide their research, writing, and presentation skills.