Physics Simulations
By Liron Shapira
Files to Download: (My favorites are in bold)
Projectile Motion - A projectile is fired. This program plots its path on the X, Y, and time axes.
Relative Motion - Helps to visualize and understand the concept of relative motion.
Inclined Plane
- Illustrates forces acting on a box on an inclined plane, and
simulates their resulting accelerations. Includes friction, normal
force, gravity and user-defined force.
Gravity - Simulates an object orbiting a planet, as well as tunneling through the planet. Features an all-graphical interface!
Banked Turn - Calculates the friction coefficient required to keep a car from sliding on a banked turn.
Conservation of Energy - A visualization of this concept including kinetic energy, gravitational and spring potential energy, and heat.
Conservation of Momentum - Three projectiles with customizable mass and relative velocity propel a platform using conservation of momentum.
Boxes on Spring
- Two boxes are stacked, and the bottom box is attached to a spring. If
the force on the top box is greater than the maximum force of static
friction, it will slip.
Human Bicep - A model of the internal forces of the human bicep.
Resonating Swing Version #1
- A swinging pendulum can be made to resonate by applying an external
force. Here, the user sets the time after the swing reaches a maximum
to begin applying the force.
Resonating Swing Version #2 - Like version #1, but you set a fixed interval at which the force is applied, regardless of the swing's current period.
Ideal Gas - Simulates randomly moving ideal gas particles in a container with gravity, and shows the effect of buoyancy on a balloon.
Charged Particles - Models the interaction of electric charges and clusters of charges.
msvbvm60.dll
- The Visual Basic 6 runtime library. If the simulations won't run,
download this file and put it in the same directory as the simulations.
Programmed with Microsoft Visual Basic 6
Blog: Logic and Reason
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