The Learning Matters of Chemistry - Movie Index

• Lab Techniques
• Visualization of Molecular Structures
• Visualization of Atomic Orbitals
• 3D Chemical Educational Animation
• Local Views

Gas Chromatography (GC)

View of a gas chromatograph: Quicktime (0.5 MB), MPEG (0.5 MB).

Separatory funnel

Use of a separatory funnel: QuickTime (1.5 MB), and MPEG (1.1 MB).

Thin-layer chromatography (TLC)

Demonstration of thin-layer chromatography: Quicktime (1.8 MB), and MPEG (1.5 MB).

UV-VIS spectroscopy (single-beam Spectronic 20)

Use of a Spectronic 20 single-beam spectrophotometer: Quicktime (1.2 MB), MPEG (1.1 MB).

DNA

QuickTime (1.0M, 290x288 pixels), and MPEG (852K) movies showing a rotating DNA. The original molecular images were generated with HyperChem for Windows and put together in Adobe Premiere.

Protein

QuickTime (4.0M, 321x374 pixels), MPEG (1.7M). Ribbon representation of Phosphopyruvate dehydratase x-ray crystal structure from Brookhaven Protein Data Bank. Images were generated using MSI's Quanta 3.31. Movie was composed in Adobe Premiere 3.0. The QuickTime movie uses the animation codec and requires a data transfer rate of 260 K/sec or higher for smooth playback.

Anaglyphic (red-blue) HIV protease movie

HIV protease-inhibitor complex QuickTime (326K, 350x232 pixels), MPEG (126K) Note: You need a pair of red-blue glasses (red on the left-eye and blue on the right-eye) to view this stereo movie. You can see it rotating in 3D! It shows a rotating HIV protease-inhibitor complex in ribbon and sticks representations (x-ray crystallographic data obtained from Brookhaven Protein Data Bank).
If you do not have the red-blue glasses, you can still see the color versions: QuickTime (632K, 320x240 pixels), MPEG (203K), or view it on-line (without downloading the whole movie, and you don't need a movie player on your computer to play it on-line!).

Aspirin

QuickTime (813K, 320x240 pixels), and MPEG (172K) movies showing aspirin in thin bond, ball and stick, LIquorice, VDW, and ray trace representations. The original 24-bit molecular images were generated with MSI's Quanta from the X-ray structure, and then put together in Adobe Premiere.

Ethanol

QuickTime (342K, 320x240 pixels), and MPEG (312K) movies showing ethanol in stick, dot surface, disc, and shaded sphere representations. The original molecular images were generated with HyperChem for Windows and put together in Adobe Premiere.

Energy surface

QuickTime (1.0M, 318x334 pixels), and MPEG (572K) movies illustrate a global minimum, a local minimium, and a saddle point on a energy surface. Original images were generated with TableCurve3D for Windows, and put together in Adobe Premiere.

Wave function of the 3dxz orbital

A QuickTime (60K, 320x240 pixels): shows a rotating 3dxz orbital.

Electron distribution of the 2py orbital

A QuickTime (691K, 200x228 pixels): shows XY, YZ, and XZ slices through the 2py orbital revealing the electron density distribution in 3-dimension.

Millikan's oil drop experiment

QuickTime movies of 3D computer animation, Part 1a (2.7M, 160x120 pixels), Part 1b (7.0M, 160x120 pixels) illustrate, with voice annotation, Millikan's oil drop experiment which led to the determination of the charge of an electron. The original animations are 320x240 pixels.
For the slow connection, you may want to download the compressed Part 1b movie: for Mac (millk1bb.HQX 2.8M), for Windows (millk1bb.ZIP 2.1M).

Bohr model

A 3D computer animation, QuickTime (11M, 320x240 pixels) illustrates, with voice annotation, the Bohr model.
For the slow connection, you may want to download the compressed Bohr model movie: for Mac (bohr.HQX 2.9M), for Windows (bohr.ZIP 2.1M).

Precession of a rotating particle in a magnetic field

QuickTime movie (234K, 160x120 pixel Cinepak compressed). POV-Ray raytraced animation assembled in Adobe Premiere.

Views of Blacksburg:

QuickTime (1 MB), or MPEG (1.1 MB)

Viginia Tech campus:

QuickTime (1.8 MB), or MPEG (2 MB)

Hahn Hall atrium:

QuickTime (0.6 MB), or MPEG (0.6 MB).

Snow on 1/30/95 (around Chemistry Department):

QuickTime (1 MB)