Category: Author: Charles Xie
You don’t have to wait until it rains to catch a sight of rainbow. You can create one any time as long as there is sunshine. Just use a garden nozzle to create a mist and you will see a rainbow.
Go to the simulationTheo Jansen is a Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor who builds large works that resemble skeletons of animals that are able to walk using the wind on the beach. His works are a fusion of art and engineering.Theo Jansen’s famous mecha…
Yesterday I reported evidence of tiny water permeation across a piece of paper on top of a cup of water. In order to double-check my theory, I placed a piece of transparency film on top of another cup of water and left the two cups overnight. When I ca…
I have blogged about some intriguing IR images when a piece of paper is placed on top of a cup of water. The part of paper above the water warms up (Figure 1) because of the release of latent heat of condensation of water vapor to its underside. If you…
I have been “shopping” for a learning theory that can frame the value added by IR visualization to hands-on experiments. Here is a candidate theory.There are four learning pathways to the brain: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile. Theory has it…
The Science Magazine announced that the Molecular Workbench software has won a SPORE Award. The Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) has been established by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to “encourage innov…
The Journal of Chemical Education, published by the American Chemical Society, selects my paper “Visualizing Chemistry with Infrared Imaging” as the cover article on the July 2011 issue. The IR experiments presented in the paper were described as “capt…
Molecular self-assembly is the process by which molecules adopt a defined arrangement without guidance or management from an outside source. This is one of the ways Mother Nature makes biomolecules that support life. For example, the amino acids of a p…
I just got a quote from a FLIR sale representative that they now offer 25% educational discount for their products. This means for an I3 camera that is listed as $1,195, the educational price is now $896.25. For an I5 camera, the educational price is n…
The virtual heliodon of Energy3Din action.According to Wikipedia, “a heliodon is a device for adjusting the angle between a flat surface and a beam of light to match the angle between a horizontal plane at a specific latitude and the solar beam. Heliod…