Re: [Phys-L] Animation of motion in a potential energy well

["Rauber, Joel" <Joel.Rauber@SDSTATE.EDU>]

Great animation!

Suggested improvement:

I drew a PE that had a small well to the left and then decreased to -infinity to the right of the well.

Clicking at an altitude that could trap the particle in the well; caused the program to assume it was so trapped rather than in the region to the right where the motion would be unbounded.  So I would alter the program to assume that where you click (left <->right) is the initial location of the particle in order to take care of cases where a given total energy might be a particle that is localized or one that may exhibit unbound motion.

Cool animation though, even as is.


-----Original Message-----
From: Phys-l [mailto:phys-l-bounces@phys-l.org] On Behalf Of Dan L. MacIsaac
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 8:41 PM
To: Phys-L@Phys-L.org; Bruce_Sherwood@ncsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Phys-L] Animation of motion in a potential energy well

cool.  how do I change the week shape or draw a new one on a mac?  I can easily choose the energy level..

Dan M


On Aug 4, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood@ncsu.edu> wrote:

> This new GlowScript program (a modification of an old VPython program) 
> lets you draw a potential energy well with the mouse, then choose an 
> energy level and see the (classical) motion:
>
> http://www.glowscript.org/#/user/Bruce_Sherwood/folder/MI/program/06-P
> otentialEnergyWell
>
> Bruce
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