前期 木曜日 ３講時 学生実験室 / 前期 木曜日 ４講時 学生実験室. 単位数/Credit(s): 2. 担当教員(所属)/Instructor (Position): 中村 達、冨田 知志、田嶋 玄一、他 所属：高度教養教育・学生支援機構. 対象学部/Object: 国際学士コース(＊). 開講期/Term: ３セメスター. 科目群/Categories: 全学教育科目基盤科目-融合型理科実験. 履修年度: 2024. 科目ナンバリング/Course Numbering: ZFT-ISE101E. 使用言語/Language Used in Course: 英語.
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Introductory Science Experiments
Natural sciences seek the truth for humanity, feedback and apply the obtained wisdom to society, and contribute to the progress of humankind. In the natural science processes, it is vital for us to notice an issue to be solved and make a hypothesis to find a solution to the issue. Experiments play essential roles in confirming or disproving the hypothesis. Moreover, treasures belonging to all humankind are constructed by disclosing and publishing continuously the scientific processes and experimental results followed by discussion. Introductory Science Experiments is a laboratory experiment class consisting of interdisciplinary subjects with basic physics, chemistry, biology, and earth sciences. This class will help students to understand the law and mechanism of nature by carrying out measurements and observations by themselves. Moreover, it will help students to study how to verbalize the results. In this way, students will be able to have a positive attitude towards study and research in natural sciences.
Students will carry out experiments by themselves and think the obtained results logically. The class consists of five themed courses entitled “Life”,“Earth and Environment”, “Energy”, “Materials”, and “Science and Culture” having interdiciplinary subjects with basic physics, chemistry, biology and earth sciences. “Energy”course will not be conducted in this semester. Through these laboratory experiments, students will be able to obtain abilities as follows:
1: Scientific logical thinking
2: Motivation to challenge novel interdisciplinary science fields
3: Scientific writing
In Week 1, guidance is given to provide students in-person how to carry out science experiments and how to write scientific reports. After the guidance, students will carry out one subject in every two weeks and submit a report by the next experiment. Students may ask questions to teachers and teaching assistants anytime at their lab places. Additionally, students may ask questions to teachers and teaching assistants using Google Classroom.
#1 (week 1) In-person guidance is given to provide students how to carry out science experiments and how to write scientific reports.
Theme: Earth and Environment
#1 (week 2) Environmental radioactivity
#1 (week 3) Environmental radioactivity
Theme: Materials
#2 (week 4) Synthesis and characterization of conductive polymers
#2 (week 5) Synthesis and characterization of conductive polymers
#3 (week 6) Synthesis of organic compounds
#3 (week 7) Synthesis of organic compounds
Theme: Science and Culture
#4 (week 8) Vibrational modes of strings and music
#4 (week 9) Vibrational modes of strings and music
Theme: Life
#5 (week 10) Detection of the differences in genomic DNA sequences from different animals
#5 (week 11) Detection of the differences in genomic DNA sequences from different animals
#6 (week 12) Structural analysis of objects by wave diffraction
#6 (week 13) Structural analysis of objects by wave diffraction
Week 14 and 15: Lab-report writing and Q&A about experiments.
Students' grades will be based on evaluation of both the submission and scores of student's reports on each subject.
Academic cheating and plagiarism are strictly prohibited. Students must avoid "completely copy-and-paste plagiarism" and "word-for-word plagiarism" from the text and/also the report of colleagues. When academic cheating and plagiarism are found, a penalty will be imposed and no credit for the class will be given.
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・Before each experiment, students are strongly encouraged to read corrsponding chapter in the text.
・After each two-week experiment, a student's own scientific report should be submitted by the next experiment.
Yes, students must bring their own computers to class.
A printed textbook for Introductory Science Experiments will be given to students.