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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1999  > May  >
Chemical Education Today
NSF Highlights
Introducing a Practice-Oriented Approach in the Physical Chemistry Instructional Laboratory
David E. Budil, Lutfur R. Khundkar, Ihsan A. Shehadi, and Mary Jo Ondrechen
Northeastern University, Department of Chemistry, Boston, MA 02115
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May 1999
Vol. 76 No. 5
p. 601
Abstract
To meet the challenge of modernizing undergraduate physical chemistry, recent workshops have described a number of new, technologically advanced experiments that may be incorporated into physical chemistry laboratory courses (1, 2). While specialized methods undeniably bring sophistication to the undergraduate laboratory, they are often emphasized at the expense of basic concepts in thermodynamics. More importantly, there remains a tendency to follow the traditional philosophy that physical principles are to be illustrated experimentally rather than applied in problem solving, often with complex apparatus that distracts students from the point of the experiment.
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*  Citation
 Budil, David E.; Khundkar, Lutfur R.; Shehadi, Ihsan A.; Ondrechen, Mary Jo. J. Chem. Educ. 1999 76 601.
*  Keywords
 Physical Chemistry; Laboratory Instruction
*  History
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