BEST OF THE APPS V.3

For the Chemist

Platform: iPad/iPhone – Cost Free

Building Atoms, Ions and Isotopes HD Lite.

This App is a free App by Carolina Biological Supply that provides student an interactive tool for learning about atom structure. This App also includes a brief introduction to the history of atomic theory.

Platform: iPad/iPhone – Cost Free

ACS Mobile.

This ACS free mobile App by the American Chemical Society allows users to follow up to 40 of the Society’s research journals.

 

For the biologist

Platform: iPad/iPhone – Cost Free

Insensitive.

This App includes a fairly detailed tutorial section that introduces concepts such a spin, vector models, basic equations of quantum mechanics, Fourier transforms, pulse sequences used in NMR Experiments.

Platform: iPad/iPhone – Cost Free.

RCSB Protein Data Bank.

This App is a treasure for structural information about proteins. It gives users access to the entire PDB database.

 

For the biochemist

Platform: iPad/iPhone – Cost Free

BioChem Euchre Deck.

This Appi s a great tool for amino acids and nucleotide structures. This App includes 24 “cards” each displaying one of the 20 amino acids or 4 DNA nucleotides.

 

For the physic

Platform: iPhone – Cost Free

Omicron Laser Tools.

This App provides calculators to determine the beam divergence, coherence length, focal diameter of one’s laser beam.