ANN: Harmonic Oscillators

Roger Guay irog at mac.com
Wed Nov 9 14:28:19 EST 2011


As a matter of fact, Jim. I've been working on that exact simulation, but so far have not been able to make it work. Perhaps, I could work with you off-line to come up with the right equation of motion?

Thanks and cheers,
Roger


On Nov 9, 2011, at 9:40 AM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Roger,
> 
> The simulation makes for a good tutorial.
> 
> Here is another that may interest you.
> 
> Newton considered, as a thought experiment, a cannon ball fired from the top of a VERY high mountain. With ever increasing muzzle velocity he speculated that the canon ball would eventually circle the Earth, thus simulating the motion of the moon about the Earth.
> 
> (See: http://waowen.screaming.net/revision/force&motion/ncanon.htm) 
> 
> You might try  1/r, 1/r^2, 1/r^3 gravitational forces to see which produces the observed results.
> 
> Jim 
> 




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