Learn Kalzium

Introduction

Kalzium

Kalzium 2.0
Software developer	Carsten Niehaus
Software release life cycle	2.3 / August 2009
Programming language	C++ (Qt (toolkit)|Qt)
Operating system	Cross-platform
Computing platform	KDE
List of software categories	Education
Software license	GNU General Public License|GPL
Website	edu.kde.org

ICT Competency

1. Kalzium is a tool for Subject Specific Resource creation.

Educational application and relevance

Kalzium is an application which allows an exploration of elements and properties, their classification and is based on the Periodic Table of Elements. It is possible to group and visualize elements based on various physical and chemical properties.

Configuration

This tool has no specific configuration requirements. Language settings can be selected from the Help menu

Overview of Features

This is an interactive tool to understand the properties of elements, formation of molecules and performing different calculations for determining various properties. Some important features include:

1. Interactive periodic table with a timeline for elements
2. Molecule editor
3. Equation balancer and calculators
4. Data plots for properties
5. Various views and ready reference for Chemistry nomenclature

Other similar applications

Avogadro is another application for molecular editong.

Developer and Community Help

This tool is developed by KDE and supports the continuous development of the application. KDE is a world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators and facilitators who are committed to Free Software development. This community has created hundreds of Free Software applications as part of the KDE Development Platform and KDE Software Distribution. Visit http://www.kde.org/ for more information about the KDE community and the software we produce.

Functionalities

(this will be a step up step description of a basic overview of how to use the different functionalities)

Image	Steps
	When you move the mouse cursor on an element of the table, an overview of the current element is displayed in the Overview tab of the information panel.
	This panel gives an overview of the data elements of given elements.
	The Atom Model page displays the atomic shells. Every orbit stands for a atomic shell and every yellow circle represents an electron.
	The Isotopes page presents information about the isotopes of an element with information on mass, number of neutrons, percentage of isotope (abundance), half life period, energy and mode of decay, spin and parity and magnetic moment.
	The Spectrum page shows you elements spectrum. You can choose the range of the wavelengths, units and type of the spectrum. The intensity table can be seen at the right bottom part of the page.

File formats for creation

This tool does not create outputs other than screenshots of simulations and graphs.

Saving the file

Screenshots can be taken through system tools and saved under respective folders

Export and publishing files

Not applicable

Advanced features

Molecular Editor and Kalzium calculators are advanced used of the tool.

Installation

From Software center

Method of installation	Steps
From Ubuntu software Centre	Go to Ubuntu Software System and search and download. This is part of the custom distribution 16.04, Kalpavriksha.
From Terminal
From the web	Example
Web based registration	Example

The application on mobiles and tablets

This is not yet available.

Ideas for resource creation

Kalzium is an interactive tool for exploring properties of elements and for learning more about compounds and properties. This does not produce an output by itself (like a video, etc) It can be combined to create resources in the following ways:

1. Screenshots which can be integrated with text to make slide shows, quizzes, etc
2. AV communication by combining with video clips