Electron configuration, or why I love what I do.
One of my favorite things to teach is electron configuration. I feel like I do a pretty good job of breaking down a relatively abstract topic and making it something they can relate to. I give the “bus seat” example for Hund’s Rule: I explain how antisocial passengers(electrons) will not pair up until all seats(an orbital’s subshells) are occupied. I then throw in the Pauli Exclusion Principle by saying that on the Electron Configuration Bus, each pair of seats has one seat facing forward and one facing backward.
I just received an email this afternoon from one of my students titled “Pauli Exclusion Prinicple!!!”with a picture attached. It was of four of my chemistry students on their bus ride home, one sitting forward and one sitting backward in each two-seat bench. So. Adorable. It was the perfect thing to see at the end of a long Friday.
For all the haters out there, you have no idea what you are missing by not seeing this movie.
Reblogging for Jean Dujardin’s wonderful facial expressions and mustache.
(Source: misfires, via lenaslevin)
Hausu (1977) AKA “House”
trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WQ_Yo06kIIA#!
This movie was fantastic. The severed head biting the other girl’s ass was probably the best part.
(via televandalist)
