I will present an introduction to the NMR experiment and attempt to cover a number of recent topics from the past 20 years which are not normally covered in standard introductory textbooks, such as long-range magnetic interactions, low field detection or techniques for inhomogeneous fields. This presentation will be in the form of an introductory tutorial and discussions during the presentation...

This article aims to provide an overview of the historiography of psychology textbooks. In the overview, I identify and describe in detail two strands of writing histories of introductory textbooks of psychology and juxtapose them to provide an integrated historiography of textbooks in psychology. One strand is developed by teachers of psychology-first as a general approach for investigating te...

BACKGROUND Using knowledge representation for biomedical projects is now commonplace. In previous work, we represented the knowledge found in a college-level biology textbook in a fashion useful for answering questions. We showed that embedding the knowledge representation and question-answering abilities in an electronic textbook helped to engage student interest and improve learning. A natura...

The fact that repulsive Rutherford scattering casts a paraboloidal shadow is rarely exploited in introductory mechanics textbooks. Another used construction such textbooks the Hamilton vector, cousin of more famous Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector. We will show how latter (Hamilton's vector) can be to explain and clarify former (paraboloidal shadow).

Creating secure software applications and writing secure programs are difficult affairs. Secure programs are well designed software applications which meet specified requirements. Well designed software is reliable in its availability and accessibility. The paper’s problem is whether the textbooks used in instruction of beginning programming students directly and actively discuss secure program...

Certainly this would seem to be what many authors mean by the term compositional. In introductory textbooks, the idea of compositionality is often introduced by pointing out that if there weren’t some systematic way of calculating the meanings of complex expressions from the meanings of their parts, we could not explain how speakers understand novel sentences, or indefinitely many sentences. Th...

This paper examines the use of e-textbooks in a college level introductory information systems course using an empirical study that gave students the option to buy electronic or print versions of the same textbook. The study measured and analyzed student expectations prior to purchase, perceived performance and satisfaction after use, intention to use e-textbooks in the future and the determina...

A curve, also shown in introductory maths textbooks, seems like a circle. But it is actually a different curve. This paper discusses some easy approaches to classify the result, including a GeoGebra applet construction.