Atomic PC Help Contents
The Atomic PC Help Contents

Help Topics

Features

Main Screen

Other Views

Registration

Download

Disclaimer


Features

The Atomic PC is the most complete periodic table of the elements available for the PC. In addition to the usual information found in such programs, The Atomic PC also contains a wealth of nuclear information on each isotope, including half life, decay mode, and daughter products. No other periodic table of the elements has more data than The Atomic PC!

X-ray data (fluorescence and binding energies) is also available, as well as electron shell information and alpha particle energies.

A molecular weight calculator makes it easy to find the molecular weight of compounds. A shaded

Diagram showing the ranges of physical properties makes it easy to visualize relationships across the periodic table.

Data is displayed for the following physical properties:

Density

Heat of Vaporization

Heat of Fusion

Specific Heat

Thermal Conductivity

Linear Expansion Coefficient

Melting Point

Boiling Point

Atomic Radius

Covalent Radius

Magnetic Susceptibility

Electrical Resistivity

Electron Affinity

Electric Dipole Polarizability

State (gas, liquid, solid)

Photoelectric Work Function

Electronegativity

Crystal Structure

Abundance in Earth's Crust

Abundance in Earth's Sea

Abundance in Solar System


Platforms

The Atomic PC runs under Windows 95, 98, NT, and 2000.

Macintosh users should take a look at The Atomic Mac (http://blackcatsystems.com), which offers the same information, and runs on Mac OS systems.


Download

You can download an evaluation copy of The Atomic PC, and try it out for yourself. It's fully functional, with the exception that you can only view data from some of the elements. Once you register, you can view data from all elements.

You can download a demo copy of The Atomic PC from http://www.engresource.com/software/atomic.html


Disclaimer

The normal disclaimers apply:

There are no warranties, either expressed or implied, regarding the accuracy of the information contained in this program, or it's use. Use of this program is at your own risk, the author is in no way responsible for any harm or damage that may occur. Blah Blah Blah...

[Gotta keep the lawyers happy.  ;) ]


Registration

If you find this program useful, please consider sending in the $25 registration fee, and you'll receive the fully functional version, which includes all of the information.

Registration enables the following additional features:

•	X-Ray Data:

The fluorescence and binding energies for each element are displayed

•	Information about all elements

Un-registered copies are limited in number of elements that can display details.

Please click here for on-line registration http://www.engresource.com/software/atomic.html, or send a check of $25.00 to

Engresource Inc

4708 Trail Court

Westminster, MD 21158.


Main Screen

The main screen when the program is started looks like:

The program draws the traditional Periodic Table of Elements on the screen. Click on an element, and detailed information is presented. The types of information available are:

1.	Nuclear Decay Transformations:

0	For each isotope of the element, the decay mode of that isotope is presented, along with the daughter product and half life (if radioactive). The percent abundance is also given if that isotope is naturally occuring.

1.	Physical Information:

The following information is presented for each element:

•	Density

•	Heat of Vaporization

•	Heat of Boiling

•	Specific Heat

•	Thermal Conductivity

•	Linear Expansion Coefficient

•	Melting Point

•	Boiling Point

•	Atomic Radius

•	Photoelectric Work


Views
Other Views

To view details about an element, click on the element, a window pop’s up giving information about that element. For eg. To show detailed information on Sn (Tin), the pop-up window would be like:

This shows the following information.

•	Common Name (Tin)

•	Atomic Number (50)

•	Atomic Weight  (118.69)

•	Discovered by

•	Discovery date

•	Discovery Location

•	Abundance in Solar System

•	Abundance in Earth’s Sea

•	Abundance in Earth’s Crust

•	Other facts about this element


Howto
Howto…

Information about elements

Printing (Expected to work in Ver. 4.0)


File menu commands

The File menu offers the following commands:

Register	Enter registration code sent by Engresource Inc.
Exit	Exits Atomic PC.


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View menu commands

The View menu offers the following choices

Normal	Shows normal view, as shown in (refer main screen here)
Density	Shows varying colors ordered by Density.
Heat of Vaporization
Heat of Fusion
Specific Heat
Thermal Conductivity
Linear Expansion Coeff
Melting Point
Boiling Point
Atomic Radius
Covalent Radius
Magnetic Susceptibility
Resistivity
Electron Affinity
Electric Dipole Polarizability
Molecular Weight Calculator	Allows calculations of Molecular Weight. Eg. If H2SO4 is entered, it calculates molecular  weight of 98.077 g/mole.
State
Photoelectric Work
Electro Negativity	(Pauling)
Crystal Structure	Shows Crystal Structure, one of Hexagonal, Cubic Face Centered, Rhombohedral.


Window menu commands

The Window menu offers the following commands, which enable you to arrange multiple views of multiple documents in the application window:

Normal Size	Creates a new window that views the same document.
Small Size	Arranges windows in an overlapped fashion.
Graph	Arranges windows in non-overlapped tiles.


Help menu commands

The Help menu offers the following commands, which provide you assistance with this application:

Help Topics	Offers you an index to topics on which you can get help.
About	Displays the version number of this application.


File Exit command
Exit command (File menu)

Use this command to end your The Atomic PC session.  You can also use the Close command on the application Control menu.

Shortcuts

Mouse:	Double-click the application's Control menu button.

Keys:	ALT+F4


Index command (Help menu)

Use this command to display the opening screen of Help.  From the opening screen, you can jump to step-by-step instructions for using Atomic PC and various types of reference information.

Once you open Help, you can click the Contents button whenever you want to return to the opening screen.


Using Help command (Help menu)

Use this command for instructions about using Help.


About command (Help menu)

Use this command to display the copyright notice and version number of your copy of Atomic PC.


Help Using Help Command
Context Help command

Use the Context Help command to obtain help on some portion of The Atomic PC.  When you choose the Toolbar's Context Help button, the mouse pointer will change to an arrow and question mark.  Then click somewhere in the The Atomic PC window, such as another Toolbar button.  The Help topic will be shown for the item you clicked.

Shortcut

Keys:	SHIFT+F1


Title Bar

“Untitled – The Atomic PC”

The title bar is located along the top of a window.  It contains the name of the application and document.

To move the window, drag the title bar.  Note: You can also move dialog boxes by dragging their title bars.

A title bar may contain the following elements:

Application Control-menu button

Document Control-menu button

Maximize button

Minimize button

Name of the application

Name of the document

Restore button


Scroll bars

Displayed at the right and bottom edges of the document window.  The scroll boxes inside the scroll bars indicate your vertical and horizontal location in the document.  You can use the mouse to scroll to other parts of the document.

<< Describe the actions of the various parts of the scrollbar, according to how they behave in your application. >>


Size command (System menu)

Use this command to display a four-headed arrow so you can size the active window with the arrow keys.

After the pointer changes to the four-headed arrow:

1.	Press one of the DIRECTION keys (left, right, up, or down arrow key) to move the pointer to the border you want to move.

2.	Press a DIRECTION key to move the border.

3.	Press ENTER when the window is the size you want.

Note:  This command is unavailable if you maximize the window.

Shortcut

Mouse:	Drag the size bars at the corners or edges of the window.


Move command (Control menu)

Use this command to display a four-headed arrow so you can move the active window or dialog box with the arrow keys.

Note:  This command is unavailable if you maximize the window.

Shortcut

Keys:	CTRL+F7


System Minimize Command
Minimize command (application Control menu)

Use this command to reduce the The Atomic PC window to an icon.

Shortcut

Mouse:	Click the minimize icon [image] on the title bar.

Keys:	ALT+F9


Maximize command (System menu)

Use this command to enlarge the active window to fill the available space.

Shortcut

Mouse:	Click the maximize icon [image] on the title bar; or double-click the title bar.

Keys:	CTRL+F10 enlarges a document window.


Next Window command (document Control menu)

Use this command to switch to the next open document window.  Atomic PC determines which window is next according to the order in which you opened the windows.

Shortcut

Keys:	CTRL+F6


Previous Window command (document Control menu)

Use this command to switch to the previous open document window.  The Atomic PC determines which window is previous according to the order in which you opened the windows.

Shortcut

Keys:	SHIFT+CTRL+F6


Close command (Control menus)

Use this command to close the active window or dialog box.

Double-clicking a Control-menu box is the same as choosing the Close command.

Note:  If you have multiple windows open for a single document, the Close command on the document Control menu closes only one window at a time.  You can close all windows at once with the Close command on the File menu.

Shortcuts

Keys: 	CTRL+F4 closes a document window

ALT+F4 closes the <<YourType>> window or dialog box


Restore command (Control menu)

Use this command to return the active window to its size and position before you chose the Maximize or Minimize command.


Switch to command (application Control menu)

Use this command to display a list of all open applications.  Use this "Task List" to switch to or close an application on the list.

Shortcut

Keys:	CTRL+ESC

Dialog Box Options

When you choose the Switch To command, you will be presented with a dialog box with the following options:

Task List

Select the application you want to switch to or close.

Switch To

Makes the selected application active.

End Task

Closes the selected application.

Cancel

Closes the Task List box.

Cascade

Arranges open applications so they overlap and you can see each title bar.  This option does not affect applications reduced to icons.

Tile

Arranges open applications into windows that do not overlap.  This option does not affect applications reduced to icons.

Arrange Icons

Arranges the icons of all minimized applications across the bottom of the screen.


No Help Available

No help is available for this area of the window.


No Help Available

No help is available for this message box.

<< If you wish to author help specific to each message box prompt, then remove the AFX_HIDP_xxx values from the [ALIAS] section of your .HPJ file, and author a topic for each AFX_HIDP_xxx value.  For example, AFX_HIDP_INVALID_FILENAME is the help topic for the Invalid Filename message box. >>