Simulated Chemistry

Wandering around in Second Life has gotten me thinking about learning through and with simulations, which is something I have not yet experienced. I am tarting to think that with enough funding that most anything can be simulated.


I happened to come across an interesting simulation called the Virtual ChemLab. Chemistry topic areas include organic, inorganic, quantum, gases, titrations, and calorimetry.

Chemists in training are free to make the choices and decisions through simulation that they would confront in an actual qualitative experiment and, in turn, experience the resulting consequences.

This media rich simulation uses over 2,500 actual pictures to show the results of reactions and over 220 videos to show the different flame tests. This was created by BYU, and is commercially available through Prentice Hall.