Support of the Caltech Chemistry Animation Project

加州理工学院化学动画项目将加州理工学院教职员工和学生的技术技能与艾美奖获奖音效编辑、奥斯卡获奖音效监制、艾美奖获奖电影剪辑师、专业解说员、电影配乐作者、好莱坞特效行业的计算机图形人员以及先进的计算机工作站结合在一起，准备正在全球范围内使用的高中和大学水平的教学材料，让学生和教师更好地理解他们的化学世界的基本概念。该项目的初始阶段非常成功，目前在五个国家向50多万名学生进行了分发。国家科学基金会的持续支持使这一项目得以完成，从而可以向世界各地的教师和学生提供一系列约10盘录像带，其中包括一个化学科学基本概念图书馆。在接下来的视频标题中，拟议的项目继续讨论的具体主题包括：原子、分子和摩尔；Lewis点结构和成键；二元晶体；以及亲电芳香取代。这些将补充现有的视频标题，涵盖原子轨道、VSEPR、晶体、立体化学、亲核取代、Diels-Alder反应等主题，还将补充即将发布的关于周期趋势、杂交和共振以及分子轨道的录像带。

The Caltech Chemistry Animation Project combines the technical skills of faculty and students at Caltech with Emmy-award winning sound editors, Oscar-winning sound supervisors, Emmy-winning film editors, professional narrators, film score writers, computer graphics personnel from the Hollywood special effects industry, and advanced computer workstations to prepare instructional materials that are being used worldwide, at the high school and college levels, to allow students and teachers to understand better the fundamental concepts in their chemical world. The initial stages of this project have been highly successful, with distribution currently proceeding in five countries to audiences in excess of one-half million students. The continuation of NSF support allows the completion this project so that a series of approximately 10 video tapes, comprising a library of fundamental concepts in the chemical sciences, can be provided to teachers and students worldwide. Specific topics to be dealt with in upcoming video titles under the proposed project continuation include: Atoms, Molecules, and Moles; Lewis Dot Structures and Bonding; Binary Crystals; and Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution. These will complement the existing video titles covering the topics of atomic orbitals, VSEPR, crystals, stereochemistry, nucleophilic substitution, the Diels-Alder reaction, and will also complement the soon-to-be-released videotapes on periodic trends, hybridization and resonance, and molecular orbitals.