Steve Lower "academic" sites

General Chemistry Virtual Textbook

General science sites

What is pseudoscience?

A gentle introduction to the structure of water

Resources for Chemical Education (This includes a special page for students enrolled in General Chemistry courses)

Other sites

Steve's Personal Web page

AquaScams - home page for dubious schemes for softening water with catalysts, magnets or electric fields; magnetic laundry balls and similar scams, and dietary supplements based on various fictional structure-altered waters.

Computer-assisted instruction

Chem1 Concept Builder - guided, interactive and in-depth instruction for advanced-HS and college chemistry.

Systems and software for putting your course on the Web. American Chemical Society Committee on Computers in Chemical Education Newsletter, Spring 2001.

CAI as a medium for mainline instruction in Chemistry. American Chemical Society Committee on Computers in Chemical Education Newsletter, Winter 2001.

Software protection for shareware developers

Other items

Chem1 Problem Book (44 pages) A collection of 150 "homework"-type problems organized into twenty problem sets. The 150 tutorial CAI lessons of the Chem1 Problem Proctor are keyed to these problems. Download/View this document now

Thermal physics (and some chemistry) of the atmosphere (S.K. Lower, 11 pages.) An exploration of how the temperature of the atmosphere varies with altitude can serve as a useful means of illustrating some important principles relating to the behavior of gases and to the absorption and transformation of radiant energy. [Published in J. Chem. Ed. 1998 75 837 (July)]
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