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Topics

  • Atomic Bonding
  • Chemistry
  • Dipole
  • Interaction Potential
  • Molecules

Description

Watch different types of molecules form a solid, liquid, or gas. Add or remove heat and watch the phase change. Change the temperature or volume of a container and see a pressure-temperature diagram respond in real time. Relate the interaction potential to the forces between molecules.

Sample Learning Goals

  • Describe a molecular model for solids, liquids, and gases.
  • Extend this model to phase changes.
  • Describe how heating or cooling changes the behavior of the molecules.
  • Describe how changing the volume can affect temperature, pressure, and state.
  • Relate a pressure-temperature diagram to the behavior of molecules.
  • Interpret graphs of interatomic potential.
  • Describe how forces on atoms relate to the interaction potential.
  • Describe the physical meaning of the parameters in the Lennard-Jones potential, and how this relates to the molecule behavior.
 

 

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Software Requirements

 

WindowsMacintoshLinux
Microsoft Windows
XP/Vista/7
Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later
OS 10.5 or later
Sun Java 1.5.0_19 or later
Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later

 

Credits

 taken from https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/states-of-matter-basics

Design TeamThird-party LibrariesThanks To
  • Wendy Adams
  • Paul Beale
  • John Blanco (developer)
  • Sarah McKagan
  • Kathy Perkins
  • Noah Podolefsky
  • Trish Loeblein
  • Piccolo
 

 

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Parent Category: 02 Atomic Structure and Stoichiometry
Category: 01 The Particulate Nature of Matter
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