Everyone, thank you for your responses. They've all made me think. Upon searching for video illustrations for background and tangibility.
This, in combination with some embellishment, will probably get across to 50% of the population (pardon the pun please).
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First, I'd like to thank everyone for their responses. The students are general chemistry students (age 18), meaning they have no calculus, no physics, and essentially no point of reference upon which to base tangible comparison. What is desired is mostly qualitative with a little bit of...
I understand this topic has been brought up before, however there appears to be "truth" or "lies" and very little in between when it comes to explaining the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (HUP) to students of freshman chemistry.
I'm teaching university general chemistry to students who've had...