VR Molecules - VR MOLECULES PRO
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-College Senior |
| Discipline(s): |
Ceramic Engineering Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering Chemistry Materials Engineering Mineral and Mining Engineering Nuclear Engineering Physics |
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| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Simulation |
| Media Type: |
Unknown |
| Author(s): |
Marc Couture |
| Description: | VR Molecules Pro is an online simulation presenting dynamically and interactively the vibration and rotation modes for 24 molecules (out of a more extensive list) containing up to twelve atoms. It allows the user to create and save on one's hard disk documents containing, much in the same way as a Power Point presentations, up to 10 "pages", each featuring one or two molecules with specific parameters (viewpoint, active modes, etc.). VR Molecules Pro can also be used to make one's presentations available through the Internet. One can also associate sound and text explanations to each page of an online presentation, thus creating a full-fledged multimedia document. Note that software to edit simple HTML documents and to create MP3 sound files is required. |
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Also available in French. "Note that in the simulation, all vibration frequencies and atom equilibrium positions are "exact" (v.g. not calculated by a molecular modeling software but obtained from handbooks or public databases),while displacements of atoms in the various vibration modes are calculated using the simple (classical) models used in most of the literature. However, for spatial (i.e. non-planar) molecules, some mode configurations were deduced from figures in Herzberg's book [1]; in these cases, the resulting inaccuracy has been limited by requiring momentum and angular momentum conservation." |
| Difficulty: |
Difficult |
| Interactivity Level: |
High |
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| Publication Date: | October 2008 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://benhur.teluq.uquebec.ca/~mcouture/Fodar99/Hzdemo_EN.htm |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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