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Survival Guide
for Physical Chemistry
- by Michelle Francl
Paperback - 136 pages Shipped in 7 days
Cat.# PCI-B1
$ 50.00 BUY
ISBN:  0971313407

Students often approach physical chemistry with some trepidation, both the mathematical skills and the laboratory present significant challenges to most. This book grew out of materials developed by the author over many years of teaching physical chemistry. It is neither a math book, nor a chemistry book, but instead places the mathematics and other skills necessary for physical chemistry in a usable context. The Survival Guide aims to give students the tools they need not only to survive physical chemistry, but perhaps even to enjoy it!

One of the major objectives of this book is to provide the student with a ready reference to the mathematical knowledge base necessary in a physical chemistry course, and provide ways to bridge the gap between the math and its application to physical chemistry. The chapter entitled “Guerilla Math” provides this and a wealth of other information. The basics, such as how to integrate sin(x), are covered; as are more sophisticated topics, including numerical solutions to differential equations and operator algebra. Particular emphasis is placed on techniques useful in physical chemistry that may not have been stressed in the corresponding math course. Worked examples are taken from typical physical chemistry problems. It's one thing to see the definition of a total derivative, quite another to realize how it can be used to derive the Maxwell relations in thermochemistry.

Computers are a ubiquitous tool for physical chemists and physical chemistry students. The chapter entitled "Beyond Pencil and Paper" takes students on a tour of what can be accomplished with a spreadsheet or symbolic math program such as Mathematica®. Typical uses of these computer tools are discussed in sufficient depth to allow a student to perform basic tasks. The basics of computer programming are also introduced, with examples in both BASIC and FORTRAN.

While students often believe that good writing skills should be reserved for their humanities course, anyone who reads physical chemistry lab reports hopes otherwise. The chapter entitled "The Write Stuff" offers advice to students about the usual writing tasks encountered in physical chemistry, from keeping a laboratory notebook to producing good lab reports. It also provides a brief guide to the use of scientific library collections, including electronic materials.

The approach taken throughout the book emphasizes mechanics at the expense of theory. Examples of the techniques discussed are provided, along with heavily annotated solutions; with the premise that being able to reproduce an example is the first step to being sure one understands how to apply a technique.

Chapter 1 - Lecture
1-1 Preparing for Class
1-2 Attending Lecture
1-3 After Class
1-4 Working in Groups
1-5 Solving Problems
1-6 Getting the Most from Your Professor
1-7 Exams: Strategies and Stresses

Chapter 2 - Guerilla Math
2-1 Know Your Symbols
2-2 Numbers
2-3 Series
2-4 Logarithms and Exponentials
2-5 Trigonometry
2-6 Derivatives
2-7 Integral Calculus
2-8 Differential Equations
2-9 Probability and Statistics
2-10 Scalars, Vectors, and Matrices – Tensors, Too
2-11 Fourier Transform
2-12 Mathematical Miscellany
2-13 Error Analysis: How Reliable Are My Results?
2-14 More Information

Chapter 3 - Beyond Pencil and Paper
3-1 Using a Computer Productively
3-2 How to Speak Computer: A Glossary for the Virtual Novice
3-3 Programming Languages: Getting a Computer to Do What You Want It to Do
3-4 Getting Down to Business: Using Spreadsheets
3-5 Leave the Solving to Us: Using Symbolic Math Packages
3-6 Computers in the Laboratory: Data Acquisition

Chapter 4 - The Write Stuff
4-1 Keeping a Lab Notebook
4-2 Lab Reports
4-3 Searching the Literature
4-4 Resources

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Evolutionary Bioinformatics
by Donald R. Forsdyke
Hardcover - 424 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE
Cat.# DA-SST5
$ 90.86 BUY
Published:  2007   ISBN:  9780387334189
  • Written to make information-based bioinformatics intelligible both to the 'bio' and the 'info' audience
  • Identifies types of information that genomes transmit, shows how competition is resolved in the genomes of different organisms, and identifies evolutionary forces involved
  • Fulfills the emerging need of non-science students for an interdisciplinary course

This book identifies the types of information that genomes transmit, shows how competition between different types is resolved in the genomes of different organisms, and identifies the evolutionary forces involved. The early chapters relate the form of information with which we are most familiar, namely written texts, to the DNA text that is our genome. This lends itself well to introducing historical aspects dating back to the nineteenth century.

Table of contents: Prologue. Part 1: Memory-A Phenomenon of Arrangement. Chargaff’s First Parity Rule. Information Levels and Barriers. Part 2: Chargaff’s Second Parity Rule. Stems and Loops. Chargaff’s Cluster Rule. Part 3: Mutation and Speciation. Species Survival and Arrival. Chargaff’s GC Rule. Part 4: Conflict with Genomes. Conflict Resolution. Exons and Introns. Complexity. Part 5: Conflict Between Genomes. Sef/Not-Self? The Crowded Cytosol. Part 6: Sex and Error-Correction. Rebooting the Genome. The Fifth Letter. Epilogue. Appendix 1: What the Graph Says. Appendix 2: Scoring Information Potential. Appendix 3: No Line? Acknowledgements. References and Index.

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Special Relativity:
A Modern Introduction - by Hans C. Ohanian
Paperback - 255 pages Shipped in 7 days
Cat.# PCI-B2
$ 70.00 BUY
ISBN:  0971313415
 

Most of the available texts on Special Relativity leave the impression that they could well have been written a half-century ago. In contrast, this newly published text presents a modern view of relativity, including the most recent experimental results. The book emphasizes that Special Relativity is a theory of the geometry of spacetime, and accordingly, uses an abundance of spacetime diagrams and geometrical arguments in explanations and derivations. It presents clear qualitative explanations of the fundamental concepts and also the necessary quantitative mathematical details.

It discusses not only the classic experimental tests of Special Relativity, but also the most recent experimental tests, such as new measurements of the one-way speed of light. It draws attention to various practical and engineering applications of Special Relativity, such as GPS, VLBI, high-voltage X-ray and TV tubes, and medical accelerators.

The first four chapters discuss relativity before and after Einstein – the Lorentz transformation, time dilation, length contraction, the famous paradoxes, and relativistic kinematics and dynamics. These four chapters constitute the core of the book, and by themselves suffice for a brief introductory course. The next two chapters deal with collisions of relativistic particles and the implications of relativity for electricity & magnetism. The final chapter gives a brief survey of the fundamental ideas of General Relativity.

Additional features include:

  • Tables summarizing all the experimental tests
  • Worked examples in all chapters
  • Nearly 200 chapter-end problems
  • Instructor Solutions Manual for all problems
  • Extensive guide to further reading
1. Relativity in Newtonian Mechanics
    and Michelson-Morley Experiment

1.1 Inertial Reference Frames
1.2 Spacetime Diagrams and Worldlines
1.3 The Galilean Transformation
1.4 The Addition of Velocities
1.5 The Wave Theory of Light; The Ether
1.6 The Michelson-Morley Experiment
1.7 Other Recent Experiments
References / Problems

2. Einstein’s Theory and the Lorentz
    Transformation

2.1 Einstein’s Principle of Relativity
2.2 The Synchronization of Clocks and
      the Relativity of Simultaneity
2.3 The Lorentz Transformation
2.4 The Spacetime Interval
2.5 The Combination of Velocities
2.6 Motion with Constant Acceleration
References / Problems

3. Time Dilation and Length Contraction
3.1 Time Dilation
3.2 The Doppler Shift of Light
3.3 Experiments on Time Dilation and
      Doppler Shift
3.4 Length Contraction
3.5 The Twin Paradox
3.6 The Pole and Barn Paradox
References / Problems

4. Relativistic Mechanics
4.1 The Laws of Motion
4.2 Relativistic Momentum
4.3 Relativistic Kinetic Energy
4.4 The Equivalence of Energy and Mass
4.5 The Energy–Momentum Vector;
      Particles of Zero Mass
4.6 Motion in Uniform Electric and
      Magnetic Fields
References / Problems
5. Collisions and Conservation of
    Energy–Momentum

5.1 Elastic Collisions
5.2 Energy and Momentum of the
      Photon; The Compton Effect
5.3 Inelastic Collisions; Nuclear
      Collisions and Reactions
5.4 Collisions of Elementary Particles;
      The Center of Momentum
5.5 Recoil in Photon Emission;
      The Mossbauer Effect
5.6 Relativistic Rocket Motion
References / Problems

6. Electromagnetism and Relativity
6.1 The Electric Field of a Moving Charge
6.2 The Relativistic Transformation of Force
6.3 The Magnetic Force and Field
6.4 The General Transformation Laws
       for E and B
6.5 The Electric Field of an Accelerated
      Charge
References / Problems

7. General Relativity
7.1 The Universality of the Acceleration of
      Free Fall; The Principle of Equivalence
7.2 The Gravitational Time Dilation
7.3 The Bending of Rays of Light
7.4 Curved Spacetime; The Theory of
      General Relativity
7.5 Black Holes
References / Problems

Appendix I: Textbooks and Further Reading

Appendix II: Answers to Even– Numbered Problems

Index
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Quantum Information, An Overview
by Gregg Jaeger
Hardcover - 284 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE
Cat.# DA-SST3
$ 90.86 BUY
Published:  2007   ISBN:  9780387357256

This book is a comprehensive yet concise overview of quantum information science, which is a rapidly developing area of interdisciplinary investigation that now plays a significant role in physics, information technology and engineering. The most well-known applications of quantum information science are quantum key distribution and quantum computation.

  • Unlike other books in quantum information and computing, this book is intended to be concise and to the point making it useful in practical context of reading journal articles, performing research calculations or problems in graduate courses in physics and engineering
  • Unlike shorter books, this is intended for practitioners and students in their daily investigations
  • Brings together this information from its various sources, allows researchers and students in a broad range of areas including physics, photonics, solid-state electronics, nuclear magnetic resonance and information technology, in their applied and theoretical branches, to have this vital material directly at hand when needed

This book is a handy reference for practitioners and students covering foundational issues as well as these and other applications. It contains more than 25 illustrations that encapsulate essential ideas and fundamental constructs. Foreword by Prof. Tommaso Toffoli.

Foreword - Qubits - Measurements and quantum operations - Quantum non-locality and interferometry -
Classical information and communication - Quantum information - Quantum entanglement.- Entangled
multipartite systems - Quantum state and process estimation - Quantum communication - Quantum
decoherence and its mitigation - Quantum broadcasting, copying and deleting - Quantum key distribution - Classical and quantum computing - Quantum algorithms - Mathematical elements - The quantum postulates.

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Tensor Algebra and Tensor Analysis for Engineers
by Mikhail Itskov
Hardcover - 255 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE
Cat.# DA-SST4
$ 90.86 BUY
Published:  2007   ISBN:  9783540360469

There is a large gap between the engineering course in tensor algebra on the one hand and the treatment of linear transformations within classical linear algebra on the other hand. The aim of the book is to bridge this gap by means of the consequent and fundamental exposition. The book is addressed primarily to engineering students with some initial knowledge of matrix algebra.

  • Compact and illustrated introduction for readers of different levels
  • Numerous exercises with solutions
  • Applications to continuum mechanics
  • Tensor algebra in absolute notation
  • Treatment of tensors on the basis of linear algebra

Thereby the mathematical formalism is applied as far as it is absolutely necessary. Numerous exercises provided in the book are accompanied by solutions enabling an autonomous study. The last chapters of the book deal with modern developments in the theory of isotropic an anisotropic tensor functions and their applications to continuum mechanics and might therefore be of high interest for PhD-students and scientists working in this area.

In the last decades, the absolute notation for tensors has become widely accepted and is now a current state of the art for publications in solid and structural mechanics. This is opposed to a majority of books on tensor calculus referring to index notation. The latter one complicates the understanding of the matter especially for readers with initial knowledge. Thus, this book aims at being a modern textbook on tensor calculus for engineers in line with the contemporary way of scientific publications.

Contents:

Vectors and Tensors in a Finite-Dimensional Space - Vector and Tensor Analysis in Euclidean Space - Curves an Surfaces in Tthree-Dimensional Euclidean Space - Eigenvalue Problem and Spectral Decomposition of Second-Order Tensors - Fourth-Order Tensors - Analysis of Tensor Functions - Analytic Tensor Functions.- Application to Continuum Mechanics - Solutions - References - Index.

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Essentials of Organic Chemistry, For Students of Pharmacy, Medicinal Chemistry and Biological Chemistry
by Paul M. Dewick
Softcover - 710 pages Shipped in CLICK HERE
Cat.# JW-SST1
$ 95.95 BUY
Published:  2006   ISBN:  9780470016664

Essentials of Organic Chemistry is an accessible introduction to the subject for students of Pharmacy, Medicinal Chemistry and Biological Chemistry. Designed to provide a thorough grounding in fundamental chemical principles, the book focuses on key elements of organic chemistry and carefully chosen material is illustrated with the extensive use of pharmaceutical and biochemical examples.

In order to establish links and similarities the book places prominence on principles and deductive reasoning with cross-referencing. This informal text also places the main emphasis on understanding and predicting reactivity rather than synthetic methodology as well as utilising a mechanism based layout and featuring annotated schemes to reduce the need for textual explanations.

  • tailored specifically to the needs of students of Pharmacy Medical Chemistry and Biological Chemistry
  • numerous pharmaceutical and biochemical examples
  • mechanism based layout
  • focus on principles and deductive reasoning

This will be an invaluable reference for students of Pharmacy Medicinal and Biological Chemistry.

Table of Contents:

Preface.

1. Molecular representations and nomenclature.
2. Atomic structure and bonding.
3. Stereochemistry.
4. Acids and bases.
5. Reaction mechanisms.
6. Nucleophilic reactions: nucleophilic substitution.
7. Nucleophilic reactions of carbonyl groups.
8. Electrophilic reactions.
9. Radical reactions.
10. Nucleophilic reactions involving enolate anions.
11. Heterocycles.
12. Carbohydrates.
13. Amino acids, peptides and proteins.
14. Nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids.
15. The organic chemistry of intermediary metabolism.
16. How to approach examination questions: selected problems and answers.

Index.

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Model ChemLab - Wins   Mac
Student Version Shipped in 7 days
Cat.# MS-1ST
$ 90.00 BUY
 

Whether your challenge is to introduce new computer technology to your curriculum, or bring the lab experience to on-line students or a need for an alternative to dangerous, expensive or environmentally hazardous labs, then Model ChemLab is the classroom proven solution for you.

Model ChemLab originated from academic work in computer simulation and software design at McMaster University. It has continued to be developed with extensive input from educators interested in the possible application of computer simulations for classroom and distance learning.

Model ChemLab is a unique product incorporating both an interactive simulation and a lab notebook workspace with separate areas for theory, procedures and student observations. Commonly used lab equipment and procedures are used to simulate the steps involved in performing an experiment. Users step-through the actual lab procedure while interacting with animated equipment in a way that is similar to the real lab experience. ChemLab comes with a range of pre-designed lab experiments for general chemistry at the high school and college level. 

Users can expand upon the original lab set using ChemLab's LabWizard development tools, thus allowing for curriculum specific lab simulation development by educators. These user designed simulations combine both text based instructions and the simulation into a single distributable file.

ChemLab Design:

  • Easy to use lab interface modelled on common lab procedure
  • Student lab notebook workspace area
  • Real time animated interactive simulation engine
  • Lab Wizard tools for easy user created lab simulations
  • Support for plug-in lab simulations extensions

Lab equipment:

  • Beakers, Erlenmeyer and Florence flasks, test tubes, graduated cylinders, burets, eye dropper, pipets, watch glasses, filtering flask with buchner funnel, Bunsen burner, hot plate / Magnetic stirrer, stirring rods, evaporation dish, calorimeter, conductivity meter, potentiometer, Spectrophotometer and others…
  • Balances: centigram, electronic and high sensitivity balance
  • Distillation equipment set-up:  distillation flask with heating mantel, distillation head, condenser and distillation take-off

Common Lab Procedures:

  • Titration, Decanting /pouring
  • Heating and hot/cold water baths
  • Temperature, weight, pH, conductivity, voltage and volume measurements
  • Plot titration curves

Large selection of pre-defined labs simulations:

  • Acid/base reactions, bond lab, cations reactions, electrochemistry, equilibrium, flame lab, fractional crystallization, fractional distillation, gravimetric analysis, kinetics, redox reactions, stoichiometry, thermal chemistry, volumetric analysis, water quality, weak acid titration and many more.

Lab Wizards (Professional Edition):

  • Allow users to create customized lab simulations
  • Lab Wizard steps users through process of new lab creation
  • Single distributable file
  • Expandable chemical database allows users to add new chemicals to ChemLab

Free updates from Model Science web site:

  • Registered users can download updates and new Lab simulations from the Model Science web site.

Wide Range of Applications:

  • Ideal for distance learning, demonstrations, lab run-throughs, pre-lab work, dangerous and environmentally hazardous, expensive, or lengthy labs.

Lab Wizards (Professional Edition):

  • Allow users to create customized lab simulations
  • Lab Wizard steps users through process of new lab creation
  • Single distributable file
  • Expandable chemical database allows users to add new chemicals to ChemLab

Free updates from Model Science web site:

  • Registered users can download updates and new Lab simulations from the Model Science web site.

Wide Range of Applications:

  • Ideal for distance learning, demonstrations, lab run-throughs, pre-lab work, dangerous and environmentally hazardous, expensive, or lengthy labs.
System Requirements: Windows: Windows® 95/98/ME/ NT with 8MB RAM, VGA or higher. Macintosh: (also available for Mac OS 7.0).
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Odyssey Interactive
Chemistry - High School Edition
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Student Version Shipped in 7 days
Cat.# CYC-30ST
$170.00 BUY
 

ODYSSEY is a content-rich learning and simulation environment for molecular chemistry. Used in high school chemistry classes across the country, ODYSSEY uses the computer to “simulate” chemical behaviour at the molecular level. This state-of-the-art program with visually rich, scientifically sound, experiments offers teachers an exciting new way to engage students. Includes student-assignable worksheets!

  • Advanced User Interface
  • Interactive Simulations at Full Molecular Detail
  • Stunning Molecular Visualization
  • Open-ended Simulations
  • Hundreds of Molecular Models
  • Create New Experiments

STUDENT EDITION
A chemistry learning tool that provides a direct window onto the molecular world. Fully developed experiments, an extensive stockroom, and an easy-to use model kit for building almost any system - ODYSSEY provides students with a virtual laboratory that is ideal for discovery-based learning. Explore chemistry like never before!

MOLECULAR STOCKROOM
ODYSSEY's Molecular Stockroom provides hundreds of pre-constructed samples of matter spanning a wide range of systems. Each entry allows for query of system properties, visualization in multiple model styles, and molecular simulation. The models can be used as the entry to a classroom demonstration or as starting content for new lab activities. The stockroom can be browsed by individual items or by category.

Categories represented include:

Elements, Inorganics, Organics, Solutions , Biological, Polymers

MODEL KITS
ODYSSEY's Model Kit contains a set of builders for Molecules, Solids, Organic Molecules, Peptides, and Nucleotides. These builders are similar to those in Wavefunction's Spartan, that is used by tens of thousands of students, instructors, and researchers world-wide.

The Model Kit enables the construction of almost any chemical system. This puts an open ended virtual laboratory at your fingertips. All constructed systems are available for simulation and exploration. Instead of having students learn about molecules in 2-D, utilize ODYSSEY's Model Kit and move into 3-dimentions.

PLOTS AND PROPERTIES
ODYSSEY allows a multitude of Properties to be measured. These may be correlated in a variety of plots.

  • Snap Plots include recorded values 'posted' to the plot.
  • Time Plots track any property as a function of time.
  • List Plots represent data from a number of different samples.
  • Histograms are available for the speed and kinetic energy distributions.

ODYSSEY can query a host of properties including density, number of molecules, electronegativity, molar mass, mass fraction, distances and angles, temperature, volume, pressure, kinetic energy, potential energy, atomic and molecular charges, dipole moments, speeds, collision frequencies, and number of hydrogen bonds. Several properties (volume, temperature, system composition) are user adjustable.

EXPERIMENTS
ODYSSEY provides instructors with 77 lab activities prepared and ready to use. Each experiment is designed to engage students in discovery-based learning. While experiments are developed for student use, they can also be utilized for classroom demonstrations. In total, more than 200 pages of chemistry content are included. Learners are provided with unparalleled visualization and simulation of matter at the molecular level.

EASILY CREATE YOUR OWN MODELS
In addition to a Molecular Stockroom of many hundreds of compounds, ODYSSEY also contains a set of model kits enabling instructors to construct almost any system imaginable. All ODYSSEY files (and the program itself) can be easily hyperlinked within Microsoft PowerPoint for use in classroom presentations.

EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS
Each ODYSSEY Experiment includes step-by-step instructions. All molecular samples are provided and system parameters and conditions have been preset in order to best carry out the experiment. Many experiments also include a worksheet with additional activities.

EXPERIMENT CATEGORIES:

  • Chemical Matter (3)
  • Gases (20)
  • Acids and Bases (3)
  • Thermochemistry (5)
  • Liquids and Solids (14)
  • Chemical Thermodynamics (3)
  • Transition Metal Complexes (3)
  • Atoms and Molecules (14)
  • Solutions (6)
  • Biochemistry (6)
System Requirements: Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M or Athlon equivalent 512 MB RAM, Windows XP or 2000, 500 MB disk space, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.
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Odyssey Interactive
Chemistry - College Edition
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Wins
Student Version Shipped in 7 days
Cat.# CYC-31ST
$320.00 BUY

ODYSSEY is a content-rich learning and simulation environment for molecular chemistry. Used in high school chemistry classes across the country, ODYSSEY uses the computer to “simulate” chemical behaviour at the molecular level. This state-of-the-art program with visually rich, scientifically sound, experiments offers teachers an exciting new way to engage students. Includes student-assignable worksheets!

  • Advanced User Interface
  • Interactive Simulations at Full Molecular Detail
  • Stunning Molecular Visualization
  • Open-ended Simulations
  • Hundreds of Molecular Models
  • Create New Experiments

STUDENT EDITION
A chemistry learning tool that provides a direct window onto the molecular world. Fully developed experiments, an extensive stockroom, and an easy-to use model kit for building almost any system—ODYSSEY provides students with a virtual laboratory that is ideal for discovery-based learning. Explore chemistry like never before!
 

MOLECULAR STOCKROOM
ODYSSEY's Molecular Stockroom provides hundreds of pre-constructed samples of matter spanning a wide range of systems. Each entry allows for query of system properties, visualization in multiple model styles, and molecular simulation. The models can be used as the entry to a classroom demonstration or as starting content for new lab activities. The stockroom can be browsed by individual items or by category.

Categories represented include:

Elements, Inorganics, Organics, Solutions , Biological, Polymers

MODEL KITS
ODYSSEY's Model Kit contains a set of builders for Molecules, Solids, Organic Molecules, Peptides, and Nucleotides. These builders are similar to those in Wavefunction's Spartan, that is used by tens of thousands of students, instructors, and researchers world-wide.

The Model Kit enables the construction of almost any chemical system. This puts an open ended virtual laboratory at your fingertips. All constructed systems are available for simulation and exploration. Instead of having students learn about molecules in 2-D, utilize ODYSSEY's Model Kit and move into 3-dimentions.

PLOTS AND PROPERTIES
ODYSSEY allows a multitude of Properties to be measured. These may be correlated in a variety of plots.

  • Snap Plots include recorded values 'posted' to the plot.
  • Time Plots track any property as a function of time.
  • List Plots represent data from a number of different samples.
  • Histograms are available for the speed and kinetic energy distributions.

ODYSSEY can query a host of properties including density, number of molecules, electronegativity, molar mass, mass fraction, distances and angles, temperature, volume, pressure, kinetic energy, potential energy, atomic and molecular charges, dipole moments, speeds, collision frequencies, and number of hydrogen bonds. Several properties (volume, temperature, system composition) are user adjustable.

EXPERIMENTS
ODYSSEY provides instructors with 77 lab activities prepared and ready to use. Each experiment is designed to engage students in discovery-based learning. While experiments are developed for student use, they can also be utilized for classroom demonstrations. In total, more than 200 pages of chemistry content are included. Learners are provided with unparalleled visualization and simulation of matter at the molecular level.