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A lot of exciting thngs are happening at JCE: S~~ftware this vear. He sure to get involved w ~ t hall ofthem! IJie the sub&ription Order Form opposite page 64 or contact us a t the address below.
NEW! Series D for Windows The fust is our new Series D for Windows. If you have IBM PSI2 or PC-compatible wmputers that are running Windows, Series D will open the way to new soRware that looks and works far better. Color images, animations, video, and multimedia can be incorporated into Windows programs, and authors of Series D programs have made effective use of all of these. Here are some highlights. The Periodic Table, by Paul F. Schatz et al., is a multimedia extravaganza that includes video from the Periodic Table Videodisc, a great many digitized images of elements, their properties, and their uses, structural information in written and graphic form, numeric data and the ability to graph it, and a hypertext about each element that ties everything together. Molecular Dynamics Simulator, by G. Peter Matthews and EmersonF. Heald, uses animations to show the extent of motion of molecules at various temperatures, simulating solid, liquid, and gaseous behavior for the same system.
Series B for IBM PSI2 and PC Compatibles As usual we have lots of programs in Series B for IBM PSI2 and PC Compatibles running DOS. Among them are: Kinetics of Crystal Violet, by John F. Cannon, Steven Gammon, and Lynn R. Hunsberger, which provides software for data collection and analysis in a general chemistry experiment where crystal violet is decomposed by base;Alkimers, by Richard Hiatt, which drills students on organic structures and nomenclature; and Exploring Chemical Kinetics, by Richard Ramette, which allows students to work with a wide range of kinetics data, analyzing them to obtain orders, rate constants, and activation energies. IBM issues will be distributed on both 3.5411. and 5.25-in. disks.
Special Issues: Video Laserdiscs and Index
Series C for Macintosh Series C, for Macintosh will include: Answer Sheets, by Richard Cornelius, examples of a series of Excel spreadsheet macros that solve general chemistry problems; Coordination Compounds, by James P. Birk and John Foster, which allows interactive comparison of structures of coordination compounds to see whether they are isomeric; and Chemistry Navigator, Part I, by John C. Kotz, a multimedia hypertext about the elements and their structures. Answer Sheets is exciting for two reasons: it is programmed in a super-high level language--Excelthat does the calculations; and, using Excel, Dick Comelius is developing the program simultaneously in the Macintosh and Windows environments. Look for Answer Sheets in Series D as well as Series C this year! 62
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Last but not least we have special issues. Two are video laserdiscs. World of Chemistry: Selected Demonstrations and Animations 11, by Nava Ben Zvi and Lisa Ragsdale; Donald Showalter, Demonstrator, is a selection of demonstrations and microscopic animations from the renowned television series. Demonstrations in Organic Chemistry, by Gary Trammell, is a two-sided (one-hour) collection of organic chemistry reactions and lecture demonstrations that will be useful both to organic and introductory courses. Both video laserdiscs make chemistry available almost instantaneously and with random access to anyone with a laserdisc player. If sales of our earlier video laserdiscs are any indication, availability of laserdisc players is continually increasing, and these two special issues will add wnsiderably to the usefulness of a player in a chemistry course. In 1993 we will also publish acomplete index to the Journal of Chemical Education, Volume 1 (1924) to Volume 69 (1991). in a choice of two comouter-readable formats: IBM or Mac. We are working vew hard in the editorial office of the software arm of
