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Middle School Chemistry 
  
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P. Galvan and J. Kessler; Publisher: American Chemical Society
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This resource developed by the American Chemical Society features free multimedia lessons and activities to support middle school chemistry instruction. Lessons are organized into…
https://www.acs.org/middleschoolchemistry.html
Middle School Chemistry: Changes of State 
  
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This set of multimedia lessons, developed by the American Chemical Society, introduces state change by examining four processes: evaporation, condensation, freezing, and melting.…
https://www.acs.org/middleschoolchemistry/lessonplans/chapter2.html
Middle School Chemistry: The Water Molecule and Dissolving 
  
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P. Galvan and J. Kessler; Publisher: American Chemical Society
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This set of multimedia lessons, developed by the American Chemical Society, examines the process of dissolving materials in water. Videos, interactive simulations, hands-on labs, and…
https://www.acs.org/middleschoolchemistry/lessonplans/chapter5.html
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A new approach to Monte Carlo simulations in statistical physics: Wang-Landau sampling 
  
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D. Landau, S. Tsai, and M. Exler, Am. J. Phys., 72 (10), 1294-1302 (2004).
The authors describe a Monte Carlo algorithm for sampling the density of states directly by doing a random walk in energy space. The probability of a microstate is computed at any…
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1707017
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The critical temperature of two-dimensional and three-dimensional Ising models 
  
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B. Liu and M. Gitterman, Am. J. Phys., 71 (8), 806-808 (2003).
The critical temperatures of the Ising model is obtained by considering the elementary cells of the square lattice in two dimensions and the cubic lattice in three dimensions. The…
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1579495
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A walk in phase space: Solidification into crystalline and amorphous states 
  
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J. Adler, Am. J. Phys., 67 (12), 1145-1148 (1999).
The formation of crystalline and amorphous solids is described using a simple glass bead demonstration and a discussion of annealing and rapid quenching on a computer.
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.19099
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Percolation clusters as teaching aid for Monte Carlo simulation and critical exponents 
  
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D. Stauffer, Am. J. Phys., 45 (10), 1001-1002 (1977).
The author discusses a geometrical phase transition involving percolation clusters. This continuous phase transition can be easily simulated on a computer and is analogous to the…
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.10872
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Teaching the renormalization group 
  
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H. Maris and L. Kadanoff, Am. J. Phys., 46 (6), 652-657 (1977).
The renormalization group theory of continuous phase transitions is described in a way suitable for an undergraduate statistical physics course.
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.11224
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Parametric solution of the van der Waals liquid–vapor coexistence curve 
  
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J. Lekner, Am. J. Phys., 50 (2), 161-163 (1981).
The van der Waals equation of state together with Maxwell’s equal area rule, leads to a transcendental equation for the densities of the two coexisting phases. Gibbs solved that this…
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.12877
Exploring the Nanoworld: Memory Metal 
  
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This Project-Based Learning module for middle school explores the properties of Nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy with shape memory that is representative of "smart materials". It…
https://education.mrsec.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/283/2017/07/Me...
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