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Chemistry Everyday for Everyone
Applications and Analogies
Audience-Appropriate Analogies: Collision Theory
Kent W. Piepgrass
Miami University Middletown Campus, Department of Chemistry, 4200 East University Boulevard, Middletown, OH 45042-3497
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June 1998
Vol. 75 No. 6
p. 724
Abstract
Many analogies have become ineffective due to changing lifestyles and demographics. With the high degree of diversity found in most student populations, no single analogy can be expected to be effective. This article presents two new analogies for collision theory based on arcade games and on the interactions between salesclerks and customers in a store. The uses, limitations, and possible extensions of the analogies are discussed.
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 Piepgrass, Kent W. J. Chem. Educ. 1998 75 724.
*  Keywords
 Teaching/Learning Theory/Practice, Mechanisms, Teaching/Learning Aids, Kinetics
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