For other animations, please visit my Physical Chemistry Animation Page
For NMR animations, please visit my NMR Animations Page

If you know of other interesting animations that can be included on this page, please email rschurko@uwindsor.ca

This is a collection of animations from across the world wide web - acknowledgement is given below to the people who worked very hard to create these beautiful interactive applets and websites which demonstrate a variety of principles in quantum mechanics and spectroscopy.

Online Animations

• Electromagnetic Wave - Java applet origin unknown
• Rovibrational spectroscopy - excellent simulator from Carnegie Mellon University (Java applet)
• Interferometry - Space interferometry demo from NASA (Shockwave)
• HeNe Laser Demo - set up a laser and get it pumping - from the Physics Education Research Group from Kansas State University (Java Applet)
• Atomic Spectra - see spectra for different elements, from the J. Chem. Ed. webware collection (Shockwave).
• Photoelectric Effect - from the J. Chem. Ed. webware collection (Shockwave)
• The Atomic Spectrum of Hydrogen (excellent page and applets by Prof. Peter Bird, Concordia)
• Rotational Spectrum of a Diatomic  (by Peter Bird, Concordia)
• Probabilistic Interpretation of Atomic Orbitals (by Peter Bird, Concordia)

Linked Animations

• Reflection, Refraction and Diffraction of Light - from MSU
• Photoelectric effect applet - from MSU
• Rotational Raman Spectroscopy - collection of Java applets and notes from the Physical Chemistry Teaching laboratory at Oxford University
• Microwaves and Water Molecule - animation from University of Colorado Physics 2000
• Emission Spectra of the Elements - neat applet showing atomic emission spectra
• Falstad's Math and Physics Applets - some of the best Java applets available!

Excel Spreadsheet Tutorials
A collection of Excel spreadsheets (for PCs), some from the J. Chem. Ed. webware collection, which have nice tutorials built into the familiar Excel environment (must have Excel 97 or later).  Most appear to be written by William F. Coleman at Wellesley College.  You may left click to activate the program within Internet Explorer, or right click to save the Excel spreadsheets to your computer.

• Morse potential (Excel)
• Group Theory Calculations - for Bonding, IR/Raman, and other problems (Excel)
• Reduction of Reducible Representations - set Macro security level to "low" for this (Excel)
• Collection of XLS Demos - including Velocity distribution in gases, black body radiation, photoelectric effect and hydrogen emission spectra.