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| Volume 5C Number 2 | ||
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| How a Photon Is Created or Absorbed | ||
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Giles Henderson Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 61920 Robert C. Rittenhouse Walla Walla College, College Place, WA 99324 John C. Wright and Jon L. Holmes University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
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| Inorganic Nomenclature | ||
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David B. Shaw
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| About This Issue | ||
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John W. Moore and Jon L. Holmes University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706-1396 |
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This issue is out of print. |
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How to Use These Programs Inorganic Nomenclature provides drill and practice that will be useful in any course where names of simple inorganic compounds are introduced. This includes high school and introductory college chemistry. The 120 examples chosen for the program are typical of those encountered in high school and first-year college chemistry textbooks. How a Photon Is Created or Absorbed is first-of-all a paper intended to provide instructors with increased understanding of a topic that is not typically included in the curriculum. In addition its figures have obvious classroom applications. The spreadsheets and graphic representations of quantum trajectories for the rigid rotor and harmonic oscillator transitions make excellent lecture demonstration aids. In addition they could be made available for students to use individually or in groups, changing parameters to see how this affects the transition. Both spatial and temporal coordinates can be varied, as can the transition chosen for display. The animations of electronic transitions in a hydrogen atom will be useful in an introductory course if the instructor wants to illustrate the mechanism by which absorption or emission of radiation occurs. They will be an excellent addition to physical chemistry lectures as an introduction to electronic transitions and to the time dependent Schrodinger equation and its importance. Hardware and Software Requirements Software in Series C of JCE: Software requires an Apple Macintosh computer with a hard disk drive (Macintosh Plus, SE or SE/30, Classic or Classic II, any Macintosh II, Centris, Quadra, or PowerBook). System Software version 6.0.7 or later is also required. If you are running MultiFinder or System 7, at least 2 MB of memory are needed. In addition to the hardware and software recommended above, How a Photon Is Created or Absorbed requires a Macintosh with a 68020 or greater microprocessor and at least 4 MB RAM. Microsoft Word version 5.1 or greater and Excel version 4.0 or greater are required, as is QuickTime. Inorganic Nomenclature requires HyperCard version 2.1 or greater. Installation of How a Photon Is Created or Absorbed requires about 15 MB of hard disk space; installation of the Inorganic Nomenclature stack requires about 370 KB. Inorganic Nomenclature and How a Photon Is Created or Absorbed are compatible with System 7. |
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Last Updated: March 19, 2001 Created: December 10, 1996 |
Created by: J.L. Holmes Comments to: jceonline@chem.wisc.edu |
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| © 1997 Division of Chemical Education, Inc., American Chemical Society. All rights reserved. | |