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poor man's free-fall animation in excel



A (very) poor-man's version of a falling body animation is given at

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~moloney/BoiseSSWorkshop/Animation/monkey3.xls

This uses a scroll bar to provide the pseudo-animation of the monkey and
the bullet. Probably not what is wanted for students pulling values from
genuine animations.

Its virtues? 26k, done in Excel (at least everybody has excel) and a
do-it-yourself animation scheme.

When you try it you may decide that doing animations in Excel is easy!

Hold down the triangle at the right and you get the time stepping by one
unit at a time. Hold down in the gray area to the right of the bar and
you get a 10 x animation speed.

Instructions on how to install sliders (scroll bars) are provided on my
home page under the spreadsheet heading, then under the Boise
spreadsheet workshop. Lots of examples too. The original method of
animation (presented during the workshop) is much inferior to this
present scheme with sliders.

I'll be glad to answer questions (offline probably is best).

Mike

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Mike Moloney, Physics & Optical Engineering Department
Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech, 812 877 8302
moloney@rose-hulman.edu http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~moloney

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