Development of Laser Experiments for Illustrating Chemical Principles

在这个项目之前的工作中，已经开发了实验来说明激光技术在演示和理解化学原理方面的使用。重点是使用廉价、安全和容易获得的氦-霓虹激光光源。这些实验被设计用于课堂或课堂演示，或供学习积极性高的高中生或化学专业的初学者使用。尽管使用激光来演示光学现象已经相当先进，但它们在化学应用中的对应应用仍然处于高度原始的状态，尽管激光技术正在给化学研究带来革命性的变化。通过这个项目得到支持的工作成果将是一本大约250页的专著，以普通化学班级教师可以使用的形式描述1985年至1988年夏季进行的所有成功的实验。这种支持还将使专著得以传播，以便与该领域的其他教育工作者分享。

In previous work by this project, experiment have been developed to illustrate the use of laser techniques in demonstrating and understanding chemical principles. Emphasis was placed on the use of a helium-neon laser source which is inexpensive, safe, and readily available. These experiments have been designed for use in the classroom or for lecture demonstrations or for use by highly motivated high school students or beginning undergraduate chemistry students. Although the use of lasers to demonstrate optical phenomena is fairly well advanced, their counterpart in chemical applications remains in a highly primitive state, even though laser techniques are revolutionizing chemical research. The product of the work being supported through this project will be a monograph of approximately 250 pages describing all successful experiment performed over the summers of 1985 through 1988 in a form usable by the teachers of general chemistry classes. This support will also allow dissemination of the monograph so that it can be shared with other educators in the field.