Science Courses and Tutorials
Science education websites including university courses online, massive open online courses, and tutorials. No commercial sites.
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Submitted Feb 16, 2005 to Science Courses and Tutorials ChemSpy.com is a convenient tool for Professionals, scientists as well as Students to speed up their chemistry search on the world wide web. We provide a number of useful services for free.
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Submitted Feb 16, 2005 to Science Courses and Tutorials The website of the American Chemical Society. Information for students and educators at all grade levels (k-12 and university) and continuing education.
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Submitted Feb 16, 2005 to Science Courses and Tutorials ChemCases.com is a series of curriculum units that link responsible decision making in product development with chemical principles taught in General Chemistry. Each ChemCases.com unit offers you a 50-minute lesson relating chemistry to responsible decision making in our new century. We expect ChemCases.com curriculum supplements will lead interested students toward the sciences, medicine, pharmacy and engineering. Alcohol, Chemistry and You. Gatorade. NutraSweet. Silicones. Nuclear Chemistry and the Community. Cisplatin and Cancer. Refrigerants for the 21st Century. Olestra. Drug Pathways and Chemical Concepts. Fuels and Society -- Chemistry and History of Automotive Fuels. Sixty Years of Tetraethyllead. How Lead was Finally Removed from Gasoline Fuel Cells.
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Submitted Feb 16, 2005 to Science Courses and Tutorials BioInteractive is an educational website and a collection of biology-focused teaching materials including streaming video lectures created by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In addition to the website, BioInteractive offers DVDs of HHMI's annual Holiday Lectures on Science and CD-ROMs of the Virtual Lab series. These materials are available to educators for free and can be ordered from the catalog at catalog.hhmi.org (go to Multimedia Educational products). Topics include: Cancer, neuroscience, genomics and chemical genetics, sex determination, biological clocks, infectious diseases, cardiovascular, immunology, DNA, RNA, eating and sleeping.
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Submitted Feb 16, 2005 to Science Courses and Tutorials Science projects kids can do for school or for fun from simple to advanced from The Science Club.
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Submitted Dec 31, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials This site shows that some ancient questions about "things going wrong" in our lives have surprisingly simple answers in modern basic chemistry. We'll talk mainly about down-to-earth things -- common solid objects of wood, metal, and bone, not about complex computer chips or programs going wrong. Written by Frank L. Lambert, Professor Emeritus, Occidental College. The Encyclopedia Britannica has not only given this site an Internet Guide Award but is allowing a direct search link to its great encyclopedia. Thus, in addition to going on to much more complex aspects of the second law after reading this site, you can also access the entire span of knowledge in the Britannica -- all of science, the humanities, and practical matters in the world.
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Submitted Dec 29, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials Illustrations were essential in spreading new scientific and medical ideas and it was often the case that new developments in the sciences were accompanied by corresponding developments in illustrative techniques. These techniques are the subject of Seeing Is Believing, which complements an exhibition of the same name on view from October 23, 1999-February 19, 2000 at The New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library.
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Submitted Dec 29, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials This is the interactive online edition of the book of the same name, published by the US Geological Survey. The online edition contains all text from the original book in its entirety. Some figures have been modified to enhance legibility at screen resolutions.
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Submitted Dec 27, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials What would happen if gravity were so strong that even light could not escape its pull? The answer to this question is the shocking and amazing object known as the black hole. What is a black hole like? How were they first discovered? How do astronomers know if they're seeing one? Quantum mechanics turns black holes from cold, eternal objects into hot shrinking thermodynamics. Physicists wondered: Is there a microscopic origin for black hole entropy? Find out how and why string theory modifies the spacetime equations of Einstein. Thanks to the string duality revolution of the early nineties, a microscopic derivation for black hole entropy has been discovered, at least in theory.
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Submitted Dec 27, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials Isaac Newton made a Bible-based estimate of a few thousand years. Einstein believed in a steady state, ageless Universe. Since then, data collected from the Universe puts the probable answer somewhere in the middle. See how quantum mechanics, relativity, Hubble's Law, and the Einstein equation are used to calculated the age of the universe.
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Submitted Dec 27, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials Cosmologists call that process of expansion the Big Bang because at some phases, especially in the beginning, the process was rather like an explosion. Much of understanding the Big Bang is extrapolating between knowledge of particle physics today, and projections from the mathematical model of an expanding universe in general relativity. The Einstein equations give us a mathematical model for describing how fast the Universe would expanding at what size and time, given the energy density of matter and radiation at that time. We base our guesses about the matter and radiation density of the early Universe based on the ancient light reaching us from the past in our night skies, and what we have learned about elementary particle physics, through theory and experiment. Take a trip through the Big Bang.
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Submitted Dec 23, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials The Path from Research to Human Benefit is a series of articles that trace the origins of important recent technological and medical advances. Each story reveals the crucial role played by basic science, the applications of which could not have been anticipated at the time the original research was conducted.
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Submitted Dec 22, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials Though climate change isnt new, the study of how human activity affects the earths climate is. The exploration of climate change encompasses many fields, including physics, chemistry, biology, geology, meteorology, oceanography, and even sociology. At this Web site, you can explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the areas covered by ice and snow, and the living organisms in all these domains. Youll also get a sense of how scientists study natural phenomenahow researchers gather evidence, test theories, and come to conclusions.
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Submitted Dec 12, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials ExploreLearning. Mathematics. Number & operations. Algebra. Geometry. Measurement. Data analysis & probability. Number & operations. Developmental math. College Alg / Precalculus. Science. Earth and space science. Life science. Physical science. Biology. Chemistry. Physics
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Submitted Dec 11, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials The Standard Model of Fundamental Particles and Interactions Chart, Flash version, copyright 1999 by the Contemporary Physics Education Project.
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Submitted Dec 11, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials Physicists have developed a theory called The Standard Model that explains what the world is and what holds it together. It is a simple and comprehensive theory that explains all the hundreds of particles and complex interactions with only: 6 quarks; 6 leptons (the best-known lepton is the electron); and force carrier particles, like the photon. All the known matter particles are composites of quarks and leptons, and they interact by exchanging force carrier particles.
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Submitted Dec 03, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials No choices are more important than those we make about the environment - and few are more complex and challenging. Yet the actions we take can have a permanent, powerful impact, upon human well-being and the face of nature on earth. The Environmental Literacy Council is dedicated to helping citizens, especially young people, participate wisely in this arena. An independent, non-profit organization, the Council gives teachers the tools to help students develop environmental literacy: a fundamental understanding of the systems of the world, both living and non-living, along with the analytical skills needed to weigh scientific evidence and policy choices.
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Submitted Dec 03, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials Becoming Human is an interactive, multimedia documentary experience that tells the story of our origins. Journey through four million years of human evolution with your guide, Donald Johanson.
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Submitted Nov 30, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials The Virtual Visitor Center website is intended for the general public, particularly students and teachers. Anyone with an interest in the science we study at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and the tools we use in that study is invited to explore this web site -- and take a tour of our physical site or stop by the real visitor center.
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Submitted Nov 29, 2004 to Science Courses and Tutorials The Physical Environment is one of the first, totally online physical geography learning environments. The Physical Environment combines text, images, audio and video programs to deliver the subject matter content. A multimedia online environment requires that you interact with the content in new and different ways.The potential of the World Wide Web to bring remote places to our desktops, and the ability to interlink bits of information, breathes life into physical geography. No longer is one tied to a static image in a book, or the graphics available on a CD-ROM. The interconnectivity of the Web engages us in new ways of learning. Hyperlinked resources lets us stay abreast of the latest developments. The reader can explore in greater depth than ever before the physical world from their desktop.
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