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From: Yves Pelletier
Subject: YP Simple Pendulum 1.0 (simulation for physics teaching)
YP Simple Pendulum 1.0: Kinematics and dynamics of a simple pendulum.
YP Simple Pendulum simulates a simple pendulum, allowing to study its
motion, the forces exerted on it, and its various forms of energy. It is
easy to change the suspended mass, the length of the string and the maximum
angle between the string and the vertical. During the animation, up to 6
vectors (tangential velocity, tangential acceleration, centripetal
acceleration, total acceleration, weight and tension) and up to 9 graphs
(angular position, angular velocity, tangential velocity, tangential
acceleration, centripetal acceleration, total acceleration, forces and
energies vs time) can be displayed. The program also computes the period
of the pendulum.
Price: $20 US
System Requirements: YP Simple Pendulum runs on any Macintosh computer
with MAC OS 7.0 or later. It needs about 250 Kb on your hard disk and 1 Mb
of RAM.
Yves Pelletier
pelletier@kagi.com
http://www.kagi.com/pelletier