Inorganic Chemistry for Undergraduates: Necessary Instruments

这所专为女性开设的小型文理学院有着对女性进行科学培训的深厚传统，该学院重新开设了一门无机化学课程，并要求化学专业学生开设这门课程。按照目前的课程设置，这门课程对二年级或更高年级的学生开放。选择无机化学本科课程所需的仪器、快速扫描UV/VIS光谱仪、原子吸收光谱仪和磁化率天平，是因为这些仪器易于获得和解释数据，并且这些仪器能够检查总体物理性质和分子和原子性质。使用这些仪器进行的实验加强或充实了课堂上引入的概念，而不是简单地给学生“体验”做特定的操作或使用特定的仪器。在大多数实验中，学生是独立地获取某些数据，但随后，作为一个班级，他们在发现和发展模式中共享和评估数据。通过允许二年级学生选修这门课程，他们希望给更多的学生提供继续深造无机化学的机会。受赠人匹配来自非联邦来源的奖励。

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.