Open AccessAVOIDING FIRST-YEAR UNIVERSITY CHEMISTRY TEXTBOOKS' MISREPRESENTATIONS IN THE TEACHING OF SPONTANEOUS REACTIONS
Author(s) -
Ana Quílez-Díaz,
Juan Quílez-Pardo
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
química nova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.214
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1678-7064
pISSN - 0100-4042
DOI - 10.5935/0100-4042.20140248
Subject(s) - mathematics education , chemistry , psychology
This paper summarizes the misrepresentations related to Gibbs energy in general chemistry textbooks. These misrepresentations arise from a problem in the terminology textbooks use. Thus, after reviewing the proper definition of each of the terms analyzed, we present two problems to exemplify the correct treatment of the quantities involved, which may help in the discussion and clarification of the misleading conventions and assumptions reported in this study