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Light And Matter
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This is an introductory text intended for a one-year introductory course of the type typically taken by biology majors, or for AP Physics 1 and 2. Algebra and trig are used, and there are optional calculus-based sections. My text for physical science and engineering majors is Simple Nature.

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Physical Science
Physics
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Light and Matter
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Light and Matter Books
Author:
Benjamin Crowell, Fullerton College
Date Added:
09/03/2015
Linn Benton Community College's General Science 106, Earth Science Companion Website
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This website was designed to replace a traditional textbook in a 100-level General Science/Earth Science class. Open Educational Resources are listed to for each subject and accompanying homework assignments are based on assigned readings. Learning Objectives and Additional Useful Resources are also listed for each subject. Login with a Google account is required to access this document and enable instructors to track student responses.

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Physical Science
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Homework/Assignment
Reading
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Linn-Benton Community College
Author:
Michelle Harris
Date Added:
06/09/2017
Logic of Organic Synthesis
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The job of a synthetic chemist is akin to that of an architect. While the architect could actually see the building he is constructing, a molecular architect called chemist is handicapped by the fact that the molecule he is synthesizing is too small to be seen. With such a limitation, how does he ‘see’ the developing structure? For this purpose, a chemist makes use of spectroscopic tools. How does he cut, tailor and glue the components on a molecule that he cannot see? For this purpose chemists have developed molecular level tools called Reagents and Reactions. How does he clean the debris and produce pure molecules? This feat is achieved by crystallization, distillation and extensive use of Chromatography techniques. A mastery over several such techniques enables the molecular architect (popularly known as organic chemist) to achieve the challenging task of synthesizing the myriade of molecular structures encountered in Natural Products Chemistry, Drug Chemistry and modern Molecular Materials. In this task, organic chemists are further guided by several ‘thumb rules’ that chemists have evolved over the past two centuries.

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Chemistry
Physical Science
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Textbook
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LibreTexts
Author:
Rao
Date Added:
02/25/2022
Major Ions in Freshwater Systems
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Dissolved ions are present in all freshwater systems, but humans can change the chemical composition of freshwater in several ways. In this activity, students will examine the concentration of major ions in freshwater systems over time and reason about potential drivers of these changes.

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Career and Technical Education
Chemistry
Environmental Studies
Geology
Hydrology
Mathematics
Measurement and Data
Physical Science
Statistics and Probability
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Activity/Lab
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Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
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Teach the Earth
Author:
Megan Kelly, Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago
Date Added:
09/19/2022
Making Stock Solutions from Solids
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In this activity, students use the virtual lab to create stock solutions starting from solid salts. Students must first calculate the correct amount of solid to make the solution. Next, they prepare the solution using the appropriate glassware. Students can check to see if their procedure was correct using the concentration viewer in the solution info panel.

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Chemistry
Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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Carnegie Mellon University
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The ChemCollective
Date Added:
02/05/2021
Managing a Personal Research Archive
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A class on setting up and managing research materials; caring for digital files to enable collaboration, sharing, and re-use; and helpful software/digital tools for organizing personal research files.

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Applied Science
Life Science
Physical Science
Social Science
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Activity/Lab
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New York University
Author:
Nick Wolf
Vicky Steeves
Date Added:
01/06/2020
Mapping in the Humanities: GIS Lessons for Poets, Historians, and Scientists
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User-friendly Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is the common thread of this collection of presentations, and activities with full lesson plans. The first section of the site contains an overview of cartography, the art of creating maps, and then looks at historical mapping platforms like Hypercities and Donald Rumsey Historical Mapping Project. In the next section Google Earth Desktop Pro is introduced, with lessons and activities on the basics of GE such as pins, paths, and kml files, as well as a more complex activity on "georeferencing" an historic map over Google Earth imagery. The final section deals with ARCGIS Online and StoryMaps with tutorials, basic exercises on pins, paths, and CSV import, and a lesson plan for creating a research project presentation on an historic building in StoryMaps. In addition to an xml file that has been uploaded here to Academic Works, the module is also a live website at https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/cs-x. The site was created with Libguides software, and is a Community Libguide that can be reused and imported into other LibGuides sites. The website also contains links to two live StoryMaps, one on an Introduction to ARCGIS StoryMaps (https://arcg.is/1SX1zH), and the second, a model assignment on the history of the Fairway building in Red Hook, Brooklyn (https://arcg.is/1nbHP).

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Cultural Geography
Physical Geography
Physical Science
Social Science
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Activity/Lab
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CUNY Academic Works
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Brooklyn College
Author:
Emily W Fairey
Date Added:
06/14/2019
Mathematics for Biomedical Physics
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Mathematics for Biomedical Physics is an open textbook, published by the Wayne State University Library System, geared to introduce several mathematical topics at the rudimentary level so that students can appreciate the applications of mathematics to the interdisciplinary field of biomedical physics. Most of the topics are presented in their simplest but rigorous form so that students can easily understand the advanced form of these topics when the need arises. Several end-of-chapter problems and chapter examples relate the applications of mathematics to biomedical physics. After mastering the topics of this book, students would be ready to embark on quantitative thinking in various topics of biology and medicine.

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Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Mathematics
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Wayne State University
Author:
Jogindra M Wadehra
Date Added:
08/09/2022
Meals-Ready-To-Eat Scenario
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You and a friend are hiking the Appalachian Trail when a storm comes through. You stop to eat, but find that all available firewood is too wet to start a fire. From your Chem 106 class, you remember that heat is given off by some chemical reactions; if you could mix two solutions together to produce an exothermic reaction, you might be able to cook the food you brought along for the hike. Luckily, being the dedicated chemist that you are, you never go anywhere without taking along a couple chemical solutions called X and Y just for times like this. The Virtual Lab contains solutions of compounds X and Y of various concentrations.

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Chemistry
Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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Carnegie Mellon University
Provider Set:
The ChemCollective
Author:
Dr. David Yaron
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Measurements for Water
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This course, Measurements for Water is in Dutch, but the following parts are in English:Lectures: Waterbalans Water balance)ReadingsDit vak gaat in op het hoe te doen van typische metingen op het vakgebied van gezondheidstechniek (waterkwaliteit), hydrologie, waterbeheer, waterbouw en vloeistofmechanica (waterkwantiteit).Onderdelen hierin zijn: het herkennen van de relevante parameters, leren over meetmethodes, meetapparatuur, nauwkeurigheid, opstellen van een meetplan, veiligheid, het zelf doen van metingen (laboratorium e/o in het veld) en bewerken en verwerken van gegevens.In een workshop wordt er geleerd met beschikbare electronica componenten een eigen meetsensor te bouwen.Leerdoelen- In staat zijn aan te geven welke parameters van belang zijn bij een bepaald proces- In staat zijn aan te geven hoe de parameters gemeten kunnen worden- Geschikte meetapparatuur kunnen kiezen- Een meetplan kunnen maken (uitvoering, tijd, duur, kosten, veiligheid)- Basis principes electronica in de meettechniek begrijpen en kunnen toepassen

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Hydrology
Physical Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Delft University of Technology
Provider Set:
TU Delft OpenCourseWare
Author:
A.M.J. Coenders
Date Added:
05/22/2013
Measuring the heat capacity of an engine coolant.
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As an analytical chemist at a company developing new engine coolants your task is to determine the heat capacity of a newly developed product and then to determine if its heat capacity is greater of less than that of ethylene glycol.

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Chemistry
Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
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Carnegie Mellon University
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The ChemCollective
Date Added:
02/05/2021
Mechanics
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This is a calculus-based book meant for the first semester of the type of freshman survey course taken by engineering and physical science majors. A treatment of relativity is interspersed with the Newtonian mechanics, in optional sections. The book is designed so that it can be used as a drop-in replacement for the corresponding part of Simple Nature, for instructors who prefer a traditional order of topics. Simple Nature does energy before force, while Mechanics does force before energy. Simple Nature has its treatment of relativity all in a single chapter, rather than in parallel with the development of Newtonian mechanics.

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Physical Science
Physics
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Textbook
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Light and Matter
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Light and Matter Books
Author:
Benjamin Crowell, Fullerton College
Date Added:
09/03/2015
Mechanics and Relativity
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In Mechanics and Relativity, the reader is taken on a tour through time and space. Starting from the basic axioms formulated by Newton and Einstein, the theory of motion at both the everyday and the highly relativistic level is developed without the need of prior knowledge. The relevant mathematics is provided in an appendix. The text contains various worked examples and a large number of original problems to help the reader develop an intuition for the physics. Applications covered in the book span a wide range of physical phenomena, including rocket motion, spinning tennis rackets and high-energy particle collisions.

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Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Textbook
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Delft University of Technology
Author:
Timon Idema
Date Added:
11/01/2018
Mesoscopic Physics
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Mesoscopic physics is the area of Solid State physics that covers the transition regime between macroscopic objects and the microscopic, atomic world. The main goal of the course is to introduce the physical concepts underlying the phenomena in this field.

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Physical Science
Physics
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Assessment
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Delft University of Technology
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TU Delft OpenCourseWare
Author:
H.S.J.ĺĘvan der Zant
Date Added:
02/03/2016
The Mole
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You probably remember the mole from high school chemistry, but do you remember why it is useful to chemists? The goal of the following video is to give the "big picture" of the mole and its applications; information on how to use the mole in calculations can be found in another tutorial. Throughout this course, we will use the term "molecular weight" to refer to the mass of a mole of a substance (for instance, the molecular weight of oxygen (O2) is 32 g/mol). Recent textbooks refer to this as "molar mass" to emphasize (i) that this term refers to the mass, not the weight, of substance, and (ii) that the quantity refers to a mole of a substance, not a single molecule. "Molecular weight" may be less precise, but it remains the term that most practicing chemists use in the laboratory. For this reason, we continue to use "molecular weight" in this course.

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Chemistry
Physical Science
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Homework/Assignment
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Carnegie Mellon University
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The ChemCollective
Author:
Dr. David Yaron
Date Added:
02/16/2011
Motion Diagrams
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?What is Motion Diagrams in one dimension هذه المحاكاة تتحدث عن الحركة في بعد واحد

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Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Simulation
Provider:
Boston University
Author:
Andrew Duffy
Date Added:
12/22/2016
NASA STEM for Students and Educators
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Searchable database of resources and opportunities for students and educators. See Citizen Science opportunities for assignment and activity inspiration. See All Topics index in addition to the Educational Materials search.

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Astronomy
Physical Science
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Activity/Lab
Case Study
Data Set
Lesson
Primary Source
Reading
Unit of Study
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NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Date Added:
12/24/2021
Nature of Geographic Information Systems
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The purpose of this text is to promote understanding of the Geographic Information Science and Technology enterprise (GIS&T, also known as “geospatial”).

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Physical Geography
Physical Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
BCcampus
Provider Set:
BCcampus Open Textbooks
Author:
David DiBiase
Date Added:
12/02/2019