A New Lecture-Tutorial for Teaching about Molecular Excitations and Synchrotron Radiation
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Colin S. Wallace [1] ; Edward E. Prather [2] ; Seth D. Hornstein [3] ; Jack O. Burns [3] ; Wayne M. Schlingman [4] ; Timothy G. Chambers [5]
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[1] University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Township of Chapel Hill, Estados Unidos
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[2] University of Arizona
University of Arizona
Estados Unidos
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[3] University of Colorado Boulder
University of Colorado Boulder
Estados Unidos
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[4] Ohio State University
Ohio State University
City of Columbus, Estados Unidos
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[5] University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
City of Ann Arbor, Estados Unidos
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- Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 54, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 40-44
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Light and spectroscopy are among the most important and frequently taught topics in introductory college-level general education astronomy courses (hereafter Astro 101). This is due to the fact that the vast majority of observational data studied by astronomers arrives at Earth in the form of light. While there are many processes by which matter can emit and absorb light, Astro 101 courses typically limit their instruction to the Bohr model of the atom and electron energy level transitions. In this paper, we report on the development of a new Lecture-Tutorial to help students learn about other processes that are responsible for the emission and absorption of light, namely molecular rotations, molecular vibrations, and the acceleration of charged particles by magnetic fields. Note that this paper primarily focuses on describing the variety of representations and reasoning tasks designed for this Lecture-Tutorial; while the end of this paper highlights some data that are suggestive of the Lecture-Tutorial's effectiveness, our more comprehensive analysis of its efficacy will be presented in a future publication.
