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.. _introductionexamples:

Introduction Examples
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This is a collection of starting examples.
It contains the introduction example of ase, including an introduction to the aoms object, how to read and write structures, adding a calculator, relax structures, visualize and run molecular dynamics.




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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This section gives a quick (and incomplete) overview of what ASE can do. You can download the code shown in this tutorial (and others in the same style) as python scripts or jupyter notebooks at the bottom of this page.">

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  :doc:`/examples_generated/gettingstarted/00-n2cu`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">ASE Introduction: Nitrogen on copper</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="ASE allows atomistic calculations to be scripted with different computational codes. In this introductory exercise, we go through the basic concepts and workflow of ASE and will eventually calculate the binding curve of N_2.">

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  :doc:`/examples_generated/gettingstarted/01-atoms-and-calculators`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Atoms and calculators</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Let&#x27;s calculate the structure of the H_2O molecule. Part of this tutorial is exercise-based, so refer back to what you learnt from introductionexample and atomscalculators. Suggested solutions to the exercises are found after each exercise, but try solving them youself first!">

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Structure optimization: H_2O</div>
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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Manipulating Atoms</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Nanoparticle">

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.. toctree::
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   /examples_generated/gettingstarted/00-n2cu
   /examples_generated/gettingstarted/01-atoms-and-calculators
   /examples_generated/gettingstarted/02-h2o-structure
   /examples_generated/gettingstarted/03-manipulating-atoms
   /examples_generated/gettingstarted/06-nanoparticle

