Symmetry App©
An Interactive Program for Learning Symmetry Elements and Operations
Written by David E. Meyer and Andrew L. Sargent
Department of Chemistry, East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina 27858 USA
SymmetryApp© is a JAVA program designed to help students learn about symmetry elements and their operations, both of which are critical to a solid understanding of molecular symmetry and group theory. The program is not a tutorial. User input is required to define the symmetry elements and means are available to allow these elements to be positioned anywhere in a molecule. Once the user has defined a symmetry element, the program executes the symmetry operation and generates a graphics image that allows the user to see firsthand the consequence of their choice.
A brief review of this work has been published (J. Chem. Educ. 2007, 84, 1551-1552). Click here for a more thorough description of the program design.
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