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ERIC Number: EJ723650
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Sep
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-9120
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Playing Newtonian Games with Modellus
Teodoro, Vitor Duarte
Physics Education, v39 n5 p421-428 Sep 2004
This article is a short introduction on how to use Modellus (a computer package that is freely available on the Internet and used in the IOP "Advancing Physics" course) to build physics games using Newton's laws, expressed as differential equations. Solving systems of differential equations is beyond most secondary-school or first-year college students. However, with Modellus, the solution is simply the output of the usual physical reasoning: define the force law, compute its magnitude and components, use it to obtain the acceleration components, then the velocity components and, finally, use the velocity components to find the coordinates.
Institute of Physics Publishing, Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol, BS1 6BE, United Kingdom. E-mail: custserv@iop.org; Web site: http://journals.iop.org.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Postsecondary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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