Category: Molecular Workbench
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…
As the 18th century British chemist Sir Humphry Davy put it, “nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.” True for infrared imaging, especially when it is used as an educational tool to advance …
The following are two Energy2D simulations that compare convection and conduction, which should run within this page if you have installed Java and Java applets are enabled with your browser. The first one shows the case of natural convection. The seco…
Metals feel colder because they conduct heat faster, not because they are really “colder.” This is often a misconception from students. A very simple IR experiment may dispel this misconception by visualizing what is going on when you touch a piec…
Figure 1: Designing a building withEnergy3D.We have come close to release an alpha version of Energy3D, a computational building science laboratory for simulating energy flow and designing energy efficiency. This program will allow you to design a buil…