jlaaser/pogil-polymers: v0.4.0 - December 31, 2022 - with PDF

The following activities are complete (including the instructor guides), and have been classroom-tested and revised:

Activity 1.1 - From Molecules to Polymers
Activity 1.2 - With Increasing Size Comes Increasing Complexity
Activity 1.3 - Molecular Weight and Dispersity
Activity 1.4 - Measuring Molecular Weight
Activity 2.1 - Introduction to Polymerization Mechanisms
Activity 3.1 - Chemistries of Step-Growth Polymerizations
Activity 3.2 - Degree of Polymerization in Step-Growth Polymerizations
Extension 3.2a - Synthesis of Polymer Networks by Step-Growth Reactions
Activity 3.3 - Equilibrium in Condensation Polymerizations
Activity 3.4 - Molecular Weight Distributions in Step-Growth Polymerizations
Activity 4.1 - Chemistry of Free-Radical Polymerization
Activity 4.2 - Kinetics of Free-Radical Polymerization
Activity 4.3 - Thermodynamics of Free-Radical Polymerization
Activity 5.2 - Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
Activity 5.3 - Anionic Polymerization
Activity 5.4 - Ring-Opening Polymerizations
Activity 6.1 - Copolymerization
Activity 7.1 - Models for Ideal Polymer Chains
Activity 7.2 - Elasticity of Polymer Chains
Activity 8.1 - Elasticity of Polymer Networks
Activity 8.2 - Viscoelasticity of Polymeric Materials
Extension 8.2a - Small-Amplitude Oscillatory Shear Rheology
Activity 9.1 - Regular Solutions & Flory-Huggins Theory
Activity 9.2 - Thermodynamics of Phase Separation
Activity 9.3 - Phase Diagrams of Polymer Solutions
Activity 10.1 - The Glass Transition
Activity 10.2 - Measuring Tg and Tm

The following activities are complete (including the instructor guide), but have not been classroom-tested (or, have been classroom-tested but have not yet been updated following testing):

Activity 5.1 - Ideal, Living Polymerizations (note: Model 1 has been classroom tested, but Model 2 has not)

The following activities are included as ``working drafts'' which contain complete student handouts but no instructor guides, and have not been classroom-tested (or, have been classroom-tested but have not yet been updated following testing):

n/a - none in this release