Re: Free Fall Animations

["Mason, Bruce A" <bmason@OU.EDU>]

One good example is available at Explore Science
(http://www.explorescience.com, click on "Mechanics",
and scroll down to "Free Fall Lab - Terminal Velocity").
This is a shockwave animation that shows the fall and
also plots position, velocity, and acceleration.  You
can turn on and off (or modify) air resistance by changing
the air density, change initial position and velocity, and
even turn on and off whether the object falling bounces.

You can also do the same thing with Physlets, available
at http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Applets/Applets.html.
Physlets have the added value that with just a little
javascript, you can get them to do just about anything
you want.

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You can find these and similar resource on the MERLOT
website at http://www.merlot.org.  To limit your view to
physics materials, on the home page select "Communities"
from the menu and "Physics".  Then do a search on "Free
Fall".

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ahmed Alkhalifah [mailto:alkhalifah@HOTMAIL.COM]
> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 4:04 PM
> To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> Subject: Free Fall Animations
>
>
> i am looking for a free falling object animations where
> students can read
> the time and the position from the same animation.
> i know there are some, but i need exact addresses.
> Thank you
> Ahmed
> BSU
>
> This posting is the position of the writer, not that of
> SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.