One of our students just gave a seminar on molecular dynamics simulations. She's attempting to model an important biochemical process as part of her thesis project. She showed us the image above from a website on Molecular Dynamics Simulations and I thought I'd share it with the rest of you. It shows the three basic ways in which chemical bonds can vary; they can stretch, they can rotate, and the bond angle can change.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Excited Molecules
One of our students just gave a seminar on molecular dynamics simulations. She's attempting to model an important biochemical process as part of her thesis project. She showed us the image above from a website on Molecular Dynamics Simulations and I thought I'd share it with the rest of you. It shows the three basic ways in which chemical bonds can vary; they can stretch, they can rotate, and the bond angle can change.
Her next slide should have been a sped-up version of that animation, with the Benny Hill theme playing.
ReplyDeleteMore scientific presentations could use the Benny Hill theme. I'm about to slog through nearly a week of cell bio in San Diego, and I'll be imagining that through some of the drier talks...