NSF DUE-9850645 Final Report

Incorporation of Computers in the Chemistry Curriculum at TTU

This site describes a project funded by the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education in the CCLI(Curriculum, Course, and Laboratory Improvement) program. All resources developed by the grant are available here for ready access by chemical educators.

I. Project Resources Available Here

A. Molecular Modeling

Tutorial Exercise: Using ChemDraw in General Chemistry to Draw Organic Structures

Tutorial Exercise: Using Chem3D in General Chemistry to Explore Molecular Structure

Using HYPERCHEM in Organic Chemistry and Conformational Analysis

Instructional Unit on Computational Chemistry: Lecture Notes by Dr. Scott Northrup

Student Assignments in Computational Chemistry Using HYPERCHEM

B. Visualizing Dynamics

Tutorial Exercise in Kinetic Theory of Gases by BOLTZMANN Software

C. Using Spreadsheets

Tutorial Exercise: Using EXCEL in General Chemistry Laboratory

Tutorial Exercise: Using EXCEL to Study Equilibrium in the Ammonia Synthesis Reaction

D. Visualizing Atomic and Molecular Orbitals

FTP Download of PowerPoint Presentation: Interactive Visualization of Orbitals Using Electron Dot Density Maps.

Tutorial Exercise: Visualization of Atomic and Molecular Orbitals by Electron Dot Density Maps.

Fortran 77 software to generate the electron dot density maps of atomic orbitals

Fortran 77 software to generate the electron dot density maps of molecular orbitals

MidasPlus script to generate the electron dot density maps for Unix users (No Longer Available)

E. Miscellaneous

Tutorial Exercise: Plotting and Linear Regression Analysis in General Chemistry Laboratory

ACE Camp Computer Manual

II. Project Assessment Resource

General Chemistry Laboratory Survey - instrument

III. Project Report