LINKS: Ch. 5-Models for Light and Sound Ch. 7-Wave Models for Light & Sound Ch. 14-Newton's Laws of Motion |
GalileosParadox.nbp (Mathematica Player format, 82 kB): Right click on link to save to your disk. This is an interactive demo of a "race" between 2 bodies falling along different paths. Students can vary the path of one of the bodies. Understanding it requires some geometry and/or trigonometry. An explanation is included. The demo was created in Mathematica 6 and runs under the free Mathematica Player, downloadable from the Wolfram Research website: http://www.wolfram.com/player |
Copyright (c) 2008 by Fernand Brunschwig. All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted for non-profit educational uses, so long as the source is acknowledged (Fernand Brunschwig - Teachers' Guide for Karplus' Introductory Physics: A Model Approach, 2nd Edition).