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Great but it needs more features!!!
This app is amazing. The particles and orbitals are properly shown when probability and the idea of "wavicles" are put into account. I believe that a more standard should also be included that bridges the gap. This would be ideal for people that are new to quantum mechanics and particle physics.Show lessspqr1030
Graphics great, the rest is lacking
Atom in a box gives great images and some nice tools for altering the appearance of orbitals, much as it did as a desktop/laptop app years ago. Since I have migrated to the use of my iPad for teaching Freshman chemistry, I was pleased to see that I could show these images again. However, the migration to the iPad didn't come at all seamlessly with respect to this platform. If you want to show the radial distribution functions, for example, you can't zoom by pinching and stretching - you live with what is shown. No coordinate systems can be added to the images. First-year chemistry students just aren't going to understand complex wavefunctions, but there is no way to take real linear combinations to show px and py (not so bad, of course, since they look just like pz). Real d orbitals other than d0 would be nice though.Show lessSane Person
Disappointed
The Mac version of this app is superb. The iPad version has one of the most annoying user interfaces I have ever encountered. The floating text fields serve no purpose that I could discern but make the app extremely difficult to use. One minor nit: for an app with the "HD" designation, the material on the left side is very pixelated on an iPad 3. Otherwise, a very user visualizer of the hydrogen wavefunctions.Show lesswb7vtv