- CategoryEducation
- First releasedFebruary 2, 2019
- Versions1 archived
- Installable1 of 1
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerDauger Research, Inc.
- Bundle IDcom.daugerresearch.AtominaBox
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 2.0 or later.
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Report an issueAtom in a Box is an aid for visualizing the Hydrogenic atomic orbitals, the three-dimensional states that the electron occupies in Hydrogen, a prime and otherwise unwieldy example of Quantum Mechanics. It interactively shows what the Hydrogen atom "looks" like. Unique among visualizations of Quantum Mechanics, it uses highly optimized code to perform 3D volumetric raytracing through the electron wavefunction's probability density and presents its results in real-time. It animates and mathematically describes all 140 eigenstates up to the n=7 energy level. The app links to an online FAQ, and the atom rotates with multitouch and the accelerometer. The bottom line is: Explore! The user are meant to explore all aspects of the atom, what it is and what it can do.
Archived Reviews
8 of 20To those who love science, this is a wonderful work of art
though I'm not a physicist, my interest in physics makes it possible for me to enjoy the elegant beauty and simplicity of this highly technical and complex concept in a way I've never seen before. truly excellent use of the iphones capabilities.
This application awes any viewer with its beautifully rendered imagery, elegantly capturing how the quantum mechanical universe is symmetrical and unquestionably pleasing to our aesthetic natures. The equations show the intellectual depth and inspiration that moulded these ideas, from Bohr, Heisenberg, Bohm, Pauli, Dirac, Feynman, Schrödinger, Fermi, Einstein, Yukawa, Rutherford, Landau, Klein, Gordon, and the many other countless names that have contributed to quantum mechanics / quantum field theory, a triumph of humanity's tireless efforts to comprehend nature's music. Regardless of your experience with Lagrangians, wavefunctions, eigenvalues, and the many mathematical structures that illuminates the ideas of quantum mechanics, this application will enhance a student's imagination and very probably inspire curiosity to continue learning the physics behind these dynamic images.
no clue really what it is, but I'm interested in learning more!
I wish I had something like this when I was in college. To those complaining about the price, not everything in life is free. My only gripe would be there is no way to pan out/zoom in.
This app takes the desktop version and brings it to iPhone, and it's just as spectacular! If you teach physics or chemistry, you NEED this app!
Pretty cool, but it crashes every time on my iPod Touch.
This would have been a great aid for when I was taking QM!
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.