Re: Molecular dynamics for teaching, learning, and playing

[John Mallinckrodt <ajm@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

Dan,

This is awesome!  Just last Friday I was trying to help the thermo
students understand the idea of immiscible mixtures and the
competition between entropy and energy in the Gibbs energy.  They
will love seeing your "immiscible" scenario and what happens as I
change the AB attraction above and below 1 while keeping the energy
down.  And thry'll be blown away that you were so thoughtful to put
his out there for them at JUST the right time!

How do you like REALbasic?  I purchased a copy recently but haven't
had a chance to get into it yet.  Any advice for decreasing the
learning curve?

Best,

John

> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
> I've just posted a program called Molecules on my web
> site, <http://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/software/>.
> This is a two-dimensional molecular dynamics simulation
> of a collection of structureless particles (such as noble
> gas atoms).  Although simulations like this have been
> around for decades, this version offers a few advantages
> over the others that I've seen:  it's quite fast, it's fun to
> watch, it has a full graphical user interface, it runs on
> both MacOS and Windows, and it's free (including
> source code, in REALbasic).  Uses of the program could
> range from visualizing frictionless motion to quantitative
> study of phase transformations.  I hope you'll take a
> moment to download the program and give it a try.  Any
> comments or suggestions would be most welcome.
>
> Best,
>
> Dan
>
> This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC,
> NAU or the AAPT.


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