Inorganic Chemistry for Undergraduates: Necessary Instruments

这所小型文理女子学院在培养女性科学方面有着悠久的传统，现在重新引入了无机化学课程，并要求化学专业开设这门课程。这门课程，正如它所提供的，是对大二或更高的学生开放的。选择了无机化学本科课程所需的仪器，快速扫描紫外/可见分光光度计，原子吸收光谱仪和磁化率天平，因为易于获取和解释数据，并且这些仪器能够检查总体物理性质以及分子和原子性质。用这些仪器进行的实验加强或证实了课堂上介绍的概念，而不是简单地给学生做特定操作或使用特定仪器的“经验”。在大多数实验中，学生都是独立地获得一定的数据，然后，作为一个班级，在发现和开发模式的过程中共享和评估数据。通过允许二年级学生学习这门课程，他们希望给更多的学生机会在无机化学方面进行更深入的研究。受资助者正在匹配非联邦来源的奖励。

This small liberal arts college for women with a strong tradition of training women in the sciences is reintroducing a course in Inorganic Chemistry and requiring it for the Chemistry major. The course, as it is being offered, is open to students of sophomore standing or higher. The instruments necessary for an undergraduate course in Inorganic Chemistry, a fast-scan UV/Vis Spectrophotometer, an Atomic Absorption Spectrometer, and a Magnetic Susceptibility Balance, were chosen due to the ease of obtaining and interpreting data, and the ability of these instruments to examine both gross physical properties and molecular and atomic properties. The experiments being performed with these instruments reinforce or substantiate the concepts introduced in the classroom, rather than simply giving the student "experience" doing a particular manipulation or using the particular instrument. For most experiments the students are working independently in obtaining certain data, but then, as a class, share and evaluate the data in discovering and developing patterns. By allowing sophomores to take this course they are hoping to give more students the opportunity to pursue advanced studies in inorganic chemistry. The grantee is matching the award from non-Federal sources.