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Heat Capacity Defined

The amount of heat that must be put into a gram of a substance in order to produce a one degree Celsius temperature rise in it. Similarly, the amount of heat that leaves a gram of the substance when it cools by one degree Celsius.

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Canada in last place on WWF's G8 climate scorecard

Published July 2, 2009, 8:52 am, CTV Winnipeg

The World Wildlife Fund gives Canada a failing grade on its climate change practices, ranking the country behind all other major industrialized nations, including the U.S.

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Physics education improves when students make their own computer models

Published July 2, 2009, 4:48 am, PhysOrg

A current trend in secondary science education is for students to learn by discovering for themselves how things work. Computer modelling is a teaching method that fits in nicely with this trend and also with new learning objectives such as scientific literacy, enquiry-based learning and active involvement. Dutch researcher Sylvia van Borkulo has demonstrated that computer modelling is ...

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Physics Education Improves When Students Make Their Own Computer Models

Published July 1, 2009, 9:22 pm, Science Daily

A current trend in secondary science education is for students to learn by discovering for themselves how things work. Computer modeling is a teaching method that fits in nicely with this trend and also with new learning objectives such as scientific literacy, inquiry-based learning and active involvement. Researchers have demonstrated that computer modeling is particularly useful for learning ...

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July 2009 Geology and GSA Today Media Highlights

Published June 30, 2009, 1:08 pm, EurekAlert!

( Geological Society of America ) GEOLOGY articles extract information on forces shaping Earth's surface, solve the puzzle of LIPs on land, trace the leading edges of dispersing continents, expose magmatic plumbing, argue over gold deposits, show how fungi break down rocks, unveil tightly kept secrets about the Amazon River, investigate deep geological structures associated with the 2004 ...

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