AtomTouch is a molecular simulation app, created through a partnership between UW MRSEC and Field Day Lab, that allows learners to explore principles of thermodynamics and molecular dynamics in an tactile, exploratory way.
Simulation Features
Lennard Jones and Buckingham Simulation Engine
Create molecules from Cu, Au and Pt
Change thermodynamics properties
Control time
Experiment with the potential energy, finding stable geometries
Watch the process of melting and vaporizing
The Need
Stick and ball models of chemistry leave much to be desired. They easily reinforce misconceptions and they don’t provide learners with a sense of the dynamic movement and forces that are operating at the molecular scale.
Project Description
Working with molecular dynamics simulation expert Dane Morgan, UW MRSEC education director Ann Lynn Gillian-Daniel and with the support of a MRSEC seed grant, Field Day developed interactive 3-D simulation for mobile devices. The simulation was developed to help students understand the structures and attributes of particles at the molecular level, providing real-time feedback and responding to student’s actions.
The Team
Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel (Education Lead)
Dane Morgan (Simulation Lead)
David Gagnon (Production Lead)
Tyler Anlauf (Art / UI / UX Design Lead)
Yucheng Tu (Unity Software Engineer Lead)
Justin Moeller (Software Engineer)
Ben Taylor (User Testing, Educational Design)
Izabela Szlufarska (MRSEC Inderdisciplinary Computational Group Lead)
Tam Mayesiba (Simulation Software Engineer)
Henry Wu (Simulation Software Engineer)
Amirhossein Davoody (Simulation Software Engineer)
The Code
AtomTouch is open source and available for you to customize. Get the code at https://github.com/fielddaylab/atomtouch
AtomTouch is an Android Education app developed by Field Day Lab and published on the Google play store. It has gained around 1000 installs so far, with an average rating of 3.0 out of 5 in the play store.
AtomTouch requires Android with an OS version of 4.1 and up. In addition, the app has a content rating of Everyone, from which you can decide if it is suitable to install for family, kids, or adult users. AtomTouch is an Android app and cannot be installed on Windows PC or MAC directly.
Android Emulator is a software application that enables you to run Android apps and games on a PC by emulating Android OS. There are many free Android emulators available on the internet. However, emulators consume many system resources to emulate an OS and run apps on it. So it is advised that you check the minimum and required system requirements of an Android emulator before you download and install it on your PC.
Below you will find how to install and run AtomTouch on PC:
If you follow the above steps correctly, you should have the AtomTouch ready to run on your Windows PC or MAC. In addition, you can check the minimum system requirements of the emulator on the official website before installing it. This way, you can avoid any system-related technical issues.
| AtomTouch APK 3.0.2 | 51.15 MB | 3.0.2 |
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