Animation makes college chemistry more animated

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Yu Hu, huyu0013@hotmail.com, Department of New Media Studies, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Box 713, Harbin, 150001, China and Lijiang Hu, Department of Applied Chemistry, Harbin Institute of Technology, Box 713, Harbin, 150001, China.
As we know, the power of animation is getting stronger in every field. Nowadays the animation steps into the class stage of College Chemistry in our university, which the freshmen are fond of especially. The freshmen were more interested in the chemistry study through using animation and more students would register for College Chemistry than ever. While students are learning College Chemistry with animation, it is clearly to be recognized the path, the direction and the equilibrium of a chemical reaction. It is easy to understand a dynamic definition of entropy taught by using an animation example that an exploded building after exploded again become more mash of pieces but a new building, which the entropy of the universe increases during a spontaneous process (spontaneously disperses from being localized to becoming spread out). It also shows students an animated action of ions and currents in a Voltaic cell; and more demonstrations are showing in the presentation. The General chemistry with animation will attract students as games.
 

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007