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From: Yves Pelletier
Subject: YP Rectilinear Motion 1.0 (learn kinematics with your Mac)
New MacOS software to learn kinematics
YP Rectilinear Motion 1.0 is targeted toward physics teachers and physics
students. It allows the user to plot a graph of velocity as a function of
time with simple mouse clicks. The program uses this graph to build a
graph of position vs time, and a graph of acceleration vs time, which are
displayed in separate windows. The motion described by these 3 plots can
be simulated. During the simulation, 3 vectors can be displayed in the
animation window (positon, velocity and acceleration), and the tangent line
can be drawn in the position and velocity graphs.
System Requirements: YP Rectilinear Motion runs on any Macintosh computer
with MAC OS 7, 8 or 9. It needs about 300 Kb on your hard disk and 3 Mb of
RAM.
Keywords: Physics teaching, sciences, motion, kinematics, graphs, slope,
tangent, position, velocity, speed, acceleration, vector, simulation,
animation.