Thursday, November 26, 2009

Building Atoms

Your teacher has created a new SMART Board notebook that allows you to build atoms from the bottom up by stacking orbitals. If you are interested in trying it, download the file aufbau.notebook to your computer, and open it with SMART Notebook Express. SMART Notebook Express does not quite have all the functionality needed to expand the images, but keep checking -- their website says they are upgrading it all the time.

If you want to explore the shapes of orbitals, check out the free Orbital Viewer software. It's fun to play with the atom parameters and see all the different shapes the orbitals can take.

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