Osp Superpositionjar

The Ejs Orbiting Mass with Constant Force model displays the dynamics of an orbiting mass due to a constant force (a linear potential energy function). The simulation displays the motion of the mass as well as the effective potential energy. The initial conditions can be changed by dragging the... Platforms: Mac

The Ejs Standing Waves on a String model displays the motion of a standing wave on a string. The standing wave can be augmented by adding the zero line and the maximum displacement of the string. The number of standing waves shown can be changed via a slider. You can modify this simulation if you... Platforms: Mac

The Momentum Space package is a self-contained file for the teaching of the time evolution and visualization of energy eigenstates and their superpositions via momentum space in quantum mechanics. The file contains ready-to-run OSP programs and a set of curricular materials. The material focuses... Platforms: Mac

The Ejs Platform on Two Rotating Cylinders model displays the model of a platform resting on two equal cylinders are rotating with opposite angular velocities. There is kinetic friction between each cylinder and the platform. The separation between the cylinders and the coefficient of kinetic... Platforms: Mac

The Ejs Pendulum on an Accelerating Train model displays the model of a pendulum on an accelerating train. The problem assumes that the pendulum rod is rigid and massless and of length, L = 2, and the pendulum bob is of mass, m = 1. The initial pendulum angle and the initial velocity of the train... Platforms: Mac

The Position Carpet package is a self-contained file for the teaching of the time evolution and visualization of energy eigenstates and their superpositions via quantum spacetime diagrams or quantum carpets. The file contains ready-to-run OSP programs and a set of curricular materials. The... Platforms: Mac

The Ejs Simple Pendulum model displays the dynamics of a simple pendulum. The pendulum is initially displaced from equilibrium and the pendulum bob has zero initial velocity. The initial position of the pendulum bob can be changed by click-dragging the bob when the simulation is paused. You can... Platforms: Mac

The Ejs Falling Rod Leaning on a Wall model displays the dynamics of a falling rod that is initially leaning against a vertical wall. The rod is dropped from rest while its end points are in contact with a vertical wall and a horizontal table. Friction is neglected. Fall times and the trajectory... Platforms: Mac

The EJS Faraday Disk Dynamo shows a conducting disk that rotates in a magnetic field. This produces a current (homopolar generator) and for certain configurations, it is a self-exciting dynamo. A self-exciting dynamo is the mechanical analog of a proposed mechanism to produce the earth and sun's... Platforms: Mac

The EJS Radioactive Decay Events Model simulates the decay of a radioactive sample using discrete random events. It displays the number of events (radioactive decays) as a function of time in a given time interval. You can change the initial number of nuclei, the decay constant and the time... Platforms: Mac

The Ejs Duffing Attractor model computes the solutions to the non-linear Duffing equation, which reads, x'' + 2?zN* x' - x (1 - x2) = f cos(?Ya* t), where each prime denotes a time derivative. The simulation displays a three-dimensional plot of phase space versus angle and three Poincare plots... Platforms: Mac

The Ejs Damped Driven Simple Harmonic Oscillator model displays the dynamics of a ball attached to an ideal spring with a damping force and a sinusoidal driving force. The spring is initially unstretched and the ball has zero initial velocity. The initial position of the ball can be changed by... Platforms: Mac

The EJS Falling Loop Model shows a conducting loop falling out of a region of uniform magnetic field. It plots the velocity of the loop as a function of time. Users can change the size and orientation of the loop as well as the extent and location of the uniform field. If Ejs is installed,... Platforms: Mac

The GR Kerr Exploding program simulates orbits of objects released in an explosion in the equatorial plane of a rotating black hole using the Kerr metric. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the gr_kerr_exploding.jar file will run the program if Java is... Platforms: Mac

The EJS Ideal Gas Expansion model simulates a two-dimensional ideal gas in a square box. This simulation can be used as part of the activity described in "The Statistical Interpretation of Entropy: An Activity" by Todd Timberlake, to be published in The Physics Teacher. In the model, the... Platforms: Mac

The GR Seeing program The GR Seeing program simulates the path of light around a black hole using the Schwarzschild metric. It also shows a plot of the proper time and angle the light is observed by a shell observer in order to demonstrate what a shell observer would see when looking at light... Platforms: Mac

The Ejs Newtonian Scattering model displays the gravitational scattering of a multiple masses incident on a target mass. The simulation displays the motion of the smaller. The number of particles and their initial spread, the gravitational constant, and the target mass's radius can be changed via... Platforms: Mac

The Ejs Coin Rolling with and without Sliding model displays the dynamics of an initially rotating, but not translating, coin subject to friction. The simulation displays the motion of the coin as well as the velocity vectors for the surface of the coin. The initial angular velocity and the... Platforms: Mac

The QM Probability 2D program displays the time evolution of the two-dimensional probability density using color to represent its magnitude. The default wave function is a two-state superposition in the x (nx = 1,2) and y dimension (ny = 3,4) state in an infinite square well. Additional states... Platforms: Mac

The Ejs Free Fall Cartesian model displays the dynamics of a ball dropped near the surface of Earth onto a platform. The initial conditions for the ball are an initial positive velocity in the x direction and zero initial velocity in the y direction. The coefficient of restitution for the ball's... Platforms: Mac