Stereonet Mobile vs Kerotakis

Stereonet Mobile is designed to help you collect, visualize, and analyze geological orientation data. It is a companion to my Stereonet program for desktop computers. As such I have tried to incorporate the basic functionality of that program, taking into account the inherent limitations of mobile devices. Some of the basic tasks that one can perform with Stereonet Mobile include: • Provide automatic data entry as a geologist's compass by reading the iOS device orientation and converting it to strike and dip of planes and/or trend and plunge of lines. It is the only geology compass app that can use augmented reality to record the strike and dip of planes using the sighting method and the device camera. • Provide manual data entry via either tapping and dragging on the stereonet or by typing values into text fields • Plot lines and planes, which can be tagged using one of as many user defined data types (e.g., bedding, cleavage, slickensides, etc.) as you want • Carry out basic calculations such as: rotations about any axis, planes from poles or poles from planes, measure angles between lines and between planes, and basic slope stability calculations • Plot mean vectors, cylindrical best fits, rose diagrams, and contour lines. • View the plots from any orientation, not just looking straight down into the lower hemisphere • See the location of a datum on a map or satellite image (if you have an internet connection) • Show realtime changes to the stereonet projection to help students understand the geometry of the device better • Provide basic input and output of data using standard iOS conventions • Works on iPhones or iPads. The program will work on iPods or iPads lacking a cellular data connection but those devices have fewer sensors and thus cannot be used in automatic data collection mode.

Kerotakis is a virtual chemistry laboratory that computes real chemistry. Drag reagents onto drawn glassware and a real aqueous-equilibrium solver answers. Nothing in it is a lookup table: every number comes out of a thermodynamic database at run time, which means the bench can do something a textbook cannot — show you a model working, and then show you the same model failing. WHAT IT COMPUTES • Dissolution and precipitation against actual solubility limits. Eight moles of salt in a litre of water leaves about 1.9 undissolved, because that is what the equilibrium says. • Acids and bases from charge balance — strong, weak, polyprotic through every pKa, and buffers that resist acid where plain water crashes. • Titration curves walked with a burette, to the equivalence point and past it. • Gas boundaries you choose: vent to the room, seal the vessel, regulate the pressure, or sweep with nitrogen. Pressure, volume, energy and the mass balance all answer to the constraint. • Heats of reaction that move the thermometer, so calcium chloride is a hot pack and potassium chloride a cold one. • The activity series decided by Nernst over computed potentials — including the refusals, like copper shrugging off acid. • Separations: filter a precipitate off, evaporate a brine to crystals, distil a mixture. THREE LEVELS, ONE SIMULATION A register dial re-tells any result at the depth you want. Level one is what you would see: it went cloudy, a white solid settled. Level two adds the measurements. Level three shows every species, activity and coefficient behind the answer — the same numbers, never a different simulation. Every result carries where it came from, and the app says "unassessed" rather than implying safe when nobody has checked. OFFLINE, ALWAYS The solver, the thermodynamic databases and the whole lesson library are inside the app. It makes no network requests, has no account, and collects nothing whatsoever. It works with the network switched off. Built on IPhreeqc from the U.S. Geological Survey. Kerotakis is free software; the source is at github.com/CrispStrobe/kerotakis.