Autograded Virtual Labs
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Autograded Virtual Lab
In this activity, students use knowledge of specific heat capacity to mix together hot coffee and cold milk to create a solution of coffee at a desired temperature. In this randomized problem, each student is given…
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Autograded Virtual Lab
Measure the enthalpy of a reaction and then create a solution warm enough to cook food.
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Autograded Virtual Lab
Determine the heat of solution for various salts.
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Autograded Virtual Lab
Based on information from Part 1 of the Hot/Cold Pack Problem, design a hot/cold pack.
Concept Tests
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Concept Test
Concept tests that can be used as part of in-class activities to help students reason about energy and work.
Molecular Science Modules
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Molecular Science Module
Solid materials have a wide range of values for physical properties like electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, hardness, etc. Often, properties that are easily macroscopically observable arise from the…
Scenario-Based Activities
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Scenario-Based Activity
While camping on the Appalachian Trail, a storm dampens all the fire wood and you must design a chemical reaction to heat your meal. In this activity, students design an experiment in the virtual lab to determine…
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Scenario-Based Activity
Students use stoichiometry and thermochemistry to design a new fuel for a mission to Mars. In this activity, students work in teams using the virtual lab to characterize a new set of oxidants and reductants that…
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Scenario-Based Activity
In this activity, students explore the concepts of heat transfer and temperature by considering the design of hot and cold packs. Students investigate kinetic energy at the molecular level as well as learn about…
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Scenario-Based Activity
Solar power plants use thousands of mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the top of a tower where the renewable and sustainable thermal energy from the sun is transferred to a liquid and then used to power a steam…
Simulations
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Simulation
This simulation allows students to interact with different components of a complex real world phenomenon.The simulation shown is of a 4-stroke internal combustion engine. The thermodynamic cycle being simulated…
Tutorials
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Tutorial
This tutorial uses animations and simulations to explain free energy and entropy. Part of an interdisciplinary project developed at Carnegie Mellon, MIT and Kent State.
Virtual Labs
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Virtual Lab
In this part of the MRE scenario, students measure the enthalpy of a reaction.
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Virtual Lab
Determine the enthalpy of the ATP reaction.
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Virtual Lab
In this part of the MRE scenario, students determine change in the enthalpy of a reaction as the concentration of reactants are varied.
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Virtual Lab
In this activity, students perform an experiment to determine the heat of a reaction.
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Virtual Lab
Use the virtual lab to determine how much milk to add to hot coffee to reach the desired temperature
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Virtual Lab
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…
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Virtual Lab
Measure and compare the heat capacity of an unknown liquid with an unknown density.
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Virtual Lab
In this part of the MRE scenario, students create solutions that when mixed, increase to a certain temperature.
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Virtual Lab
This activity provides a demonstration of Hess' Law using three reactions: the solubility NaOH in water, the solubility NaOH in HCl and the reaction of a solution of HCl and a solution of NaOH.