OT Some Run Rev simulations

[Jim Hurley]

Greetings all,

I have posted a Run Rev stack on my web site. The eventual 
stand-alone will be offered (gratis) on the Web as a complement to a 
book of mine which will be published shortly. Some of this may not 
make much sense without the book, but some is relatively intuitive.

There are five interactive applications:

1) The law of large numbers (actually a variant thereof) demonstrates 
the fact that for systems with a large number of components, there is 
one macrostate which is overwhelmingly more probable than any other 
at the given energy, volume and particle numbers.

2) This  a simple experiment to demonstrate Newton's thinking in 
linking the motion of a projectile here on earth to the motion of the 
moon about the earth and the planets about the sun. (I am working on 
a version of this which allows for various power laws, not just the 
inverse square.)

3) Temperature is defined as the reciprocal of the slope of the 
entropy vs. energy curve. This application shows that that is not as 
ridiculous a definition as it sounds.

4) Time asymmetry paradox: This application demonstrates how a 
system, composed of elementary particles that behave symmetrically in 
time, will behave asymmetrically in time.

5) A rainbow paradox: Red light shinning on a raindrop is reflected 
as a cone of light. How do these conical beams produce the red bow in 
the rainbow? And why are the colors of the red, orange, green and 
blue cones separated to produce the colors of the rainbow?


My apologies to anyone who looks to the scripting for enlightenment. 
I am strictly an instant-gratification-programmer.

There are two files: TimeMac.zip and TimePC.zip, which are the Mac 
and PC versions respectively. They are to be found at 
http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/ They are relatively large 
files, about 3 megs each.

Jim