Computational Chemistry in Education: Appropriate AND Authentic

9/14/98


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Computational Chemistry in Education: Appropriate AND Authentic

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About the Shodor Education Foundation

About the Shodor Education Foundation

What We Believe: Shodor’s Philosophy of Technology in Education

Changing the Face,Place, Pace: What Technology Can Do

Authentic Science

Authentic Science

Technology can also….

Navigating the Information Mess

Shodor’s “WWW” - Evidence-based reasoning

Educators: Change Agents

On the Internet, no one knows…..

Shodor’s Philosophy on the Internet

Interactive Learning Environments

Technology’s Challenge

Computational Science: A Tripartite Approach

What is Computational Science?

Applications

Algorithms

Architecture

Computational Science Tools

BUT!! Why do we need this?

Computational Science Launch Ramp

Why Computational Chemistry?

Computational Chemistry Defined

Guiding Questions

Guiding Questions

Guiding Questions

Applications

Models of atomic structures

The Bohr Model

The Bohr Model

The Quantum Model

Units in Computational Chemistry

Computational Chemistry Codes

Mathematics of Computational Chemistry

Approximations in Computational Chemistry

LCAO Model

Basis Sets

Basis Sets

Basis Sets

Spartan/MacSpartan

Spartan/MacSpartan

Molecular Mechanics

Semi-empirical methods

ab initio methods

Shodor outreach efforts in computational chemistry

SUCCEED: Explorations in Computational Chemistry

SUCCEED: Explorations in Computational Chemistry

SUCCEED: Explorations in Computational Chemistry

Computational Chemistry for Chemistry Educators

ChemViz: NCSA/Shodor REU partnership

Concluding observations

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Author: Bob Gotwals

Email: gotwals@shodor.org

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