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ModeMaker Software part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This is a program for the Macintosh that allow the user to create diagrams with up to five phases each with a known size mode shape color aspect ratio and alignment. These diagrams can be used by ...
Subject: Mineralogy: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Computer Applications, Datasets and Tools:Tools

2D X-Ray Crystallography Simulator part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The X-Ray Diffraction Simulator is a program developed at Carnegie Mellon using the cT programming language as an aid to teaching undergraduate courses involving crystallography. The program provides ...
Subject: Mineralogy: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy:Crystallography
Resource Type: Computer Applications

BASINS: Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources part of SERC Web Resource Collection

BASINS is a multipurpose environmental analysis system for use by regional, state, and local agencies in performing watershed and water quality based studies. This new software makes it possible to ...
Subject: Mineralogy: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Groundwater modeling, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Mineralogy:Environmental Mineralogy, Geoscience:Hydrology, Biology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Water Quality and Quantity:Non-Point Source Pollution, Point Source Pollution, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools, Computer Applications, Datasets and Tools:Datasets

Physics Applets part of SERC Web Resource Collection

These physics applets involve astrophysics, energy and environment, mechanics, and thermodynamics. The astrophysics applets are related to spectroscopy, photometry, orbital mechanics and cosmology, ...
Subject: Mineralogy: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy:Phase Equilibria/Thermodynamics, Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science, Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Phase Equilibria/Thermodynamics
Resource Type: Computer Applications, Audio/Visual:Animations/Video

BASINS: Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources part of SERC Web Resource Collection

BASINS is a multipurpose environmental analysis system for use by regional, state, and local agencies in performing watershed and water quality based studies. This new software makes it possible to ...
Subject: Mineralogy: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Groundwater modeling, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Mineralogy:Environmental Mineralogy, Geoscience:Hydrology, Biology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Water Quality and Quantity:Non-Point Source Pollution, Point Source Pollution, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools, Computer Applications, Datasets and Tools:Datasets

MELTS Home Page part of SERC Web Resource Collection

MELTS is a software package for modeling crystallization of magmatic systems. The MELTS home page provides acess to three types of modeling tools. The software can be used to calculate phase ...
Subject: Mineralogy: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy:Phase Equilibria/Thermodynamics, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Geochemistry, Mineralogy
Resource Type: Computer Applications, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools

Spectrophotometer Simulation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site from Davidson College features an applet that models the emission of photons by a lamp, the absorption of those photons by a solute in a sample solution, and the detection of the photons by ...
Subject: Mineralogy: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy:Mineral Analysis, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Geochemical Analysis
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Computer Applications

Project ExCEL part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This website from the Materials Science and Engineering department at Iowa State University features information about WebSEM. The site presents a scanning electron microscope (SEM) connected to the ...
Subject: Mineralogy: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy:Mineral Analysis
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Computer Applications, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity

Materials Science: Diffraction part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This suite of websites from the University of Liverpool comprises a learning module that focuses on diffraction. The website features sections on diffraction, the geometry of diffraction, the ...
Subject: Mineralogy: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy:X-ray Techniques
Resource Type: Scientific Resources:Collection, Overview/Reference Work, Computer Applications, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Animations/Video