animated motion in Excel in Mac -thanks! - and guilty!

["Michael J. Moloney" <Michael.J.Moloney@ROSE-HULMAN.EDU>]

Martha,

Thanks for all the instructions about the Forms toolbar!  In Windows Excel, one
can get to a scroll bar either through the Control Toolbox, or the Forms menu.
There's some slight difference in how the scroll bar functions, which I forget
right now.

And I'm guilty of backsliding on Maple!  Now I just use RK2 integrations ( a la
Pat Cooney) for quite complex calculations like the detailed motion of a
Trebuchet. And with a slider (scroll bar) to animate the motion it is really
quite cool.

And I did an Excel RK2 simulation of a driven inverted pendulum for a TPT
article, titled something like 'The Gravity-Defying Pendululm' in Sept. 2002.

For analytical integrations, Maple is it, but Excel can do a huge amount of
other stuff, and with a smaller learning curve.

Mike



"Takats, Martha" wrote:

> I have figured out how to do it on a Mac--works fine in both Excel 5 and
> Office X:
>
>   The slider (scroll bar) control is in the "forms" toolbar.
>   You don't need to enter (or leave) "design mode" to use it.
>   Follow Mike's instructions for placing the scroll bar.
>   To bring up the properties dialog, command click (in Office X) or control
> click (in Excel 5) and        click on the "control" tab.
>   Enter values as indicated in Mike's instructions.
>
> I hope I haven't forgotten anything here! Hard to keep my mail program and
> my Excel going at the same time.
>
> Question for Mike--does this mean you're not using Maple any more??
>
> Martha Takats
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Michael J. Moloney
> > Reply To:     Forum for Physics Educators
> > Sent:         Sunday, February 16, 2003 1:17 PM
> > To:   PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> > Subject:      animated motion made easy on spreadsheets
> >
> > In addition to all the fine stuff at Pat Cooney's site, everyone should
> > have
> > a try at an animated spreadsheet.
> >
> > Here are some instructions on how to do it.
> >
> > http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~moloney/PH112/AnimatedTravWaveInstr.htm
> >
> >  Mike
> >
> > --
> > Mike Moloney, Physics & Optical Engineering Department
> > Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech, 812 877 8302
> > moloney@rose-hulman.edu   http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~moloney

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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