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9th Grade Chemistry Objectives

PHYSICS! BLOG!

To help get it started, I taught 2 sections of the new first year course: Modeling Chemistry. It was the first time the class was happening, my first (and probably last) time teaching chemistry, and there weren’t a lot of other 9th grade chemistry models to use. We aimed to do the first 8 units, and we did the first 7. (My

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. By 1807 the term “energy” had been introduced, but the question remained of whether it could in any sense globally be thought of as conserved. But in plenty of situations it wasn’t.

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Winds of change: using dust in Antarctic ice to understand past climates

Futurum

A key rule of physics is that heat energy moves from high-energy to low-energy areas. Through evaluating evidence and mapping out arguments, students can practice this important aspect of scientific communication. The expertise of geologists will be critical for the transition to clean energy.

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How machine learning is revolutionising materials science

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Pathway from school to materials science and engineering • Ryan suggests physics and chemistry as the subjects most relevant for MS&E. I had great arguments about mathematical proofs with my amazing grade school maths teachers and was a regular at Boston’s science museum.

Science 98
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The Mystery of the Baghdad Battery

STEMe

However, König had another theory to form the entire argument around this artifact. König believed that the artifact was from the Parthian period, specifically from 250 BCE to 224 CE, although later analysis proved that the artifact was likely from the Sassanid dynasty, which lasted from 224 CE to 640 CE.

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Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. With hard spheres there’s built-in conservation of energy, momentum and number of particles. The First Law of thermodynamics asserted that heat was a form of energy, and that overall energy was conserved.

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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

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The team will be investigating how to manufacture the plant-based packaging using fewer resources and chemicals, less energy, and with an eye on any other socio-ecological impacts. Pathway from school to biological engineering Jeffrey says that biological engineering entails a robust understanding in maths, physics, chemistry and biology.

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