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Newton's Mountain JS Model
written by Todd Timberlake and Mario Belloni
The EJS Newton's Mountain JS model illustrates the motion of a projectile launched from the top of a VERY tall mountain on Earth. The diagram shown in the simulation is taken from Newton's A Treatise on the System of the World, which he wrote after the Principia, but the basic idea is found in the Principia itself. Newton concluded that a projectile launched horizontally with sufficient speed would orbit Earth rather than crashing to Earth's surface. Thus the motion of a projectile fired on Earth was not qualitatively different from that of the moon orbiting Earth.  

EJS Newton's Mountain JS Model was created using the Easy Java Simulations (EJS) modeling tool.
1 source code document is available
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Astronomy
- Astronomy Education
= Curricula
Classical Mechanics
- Gravity
= Orbits
- Motion in Two Dimensions
= Projectile Motion
- Lower Undergraduate
- High School
- Upper Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Interactive Simulation
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- Educators
- application/javascript
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This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivatives 3.0 license.
Rights Holder:
Todd Timberlake and Mario Belloni
Keywords:
EJSS, Earth satelitte, Newton Cannon, OpenSource Physics, javascript, orbit, projectile
Record Cloner:
Metadata instance created January 5, 2014 by Mario Belloni
Record Updated:
July 28, 2018 by Wolfgang Christian
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January 5, 2014
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T. Timberlake and M. Belloni, Computer Program NEWTON'S MOUNTAIN JS MODEL, Version 1.0 (2014), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13106&DocID=3648).
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T. Timberlake and M. Belloni, Computer Program NEWTON'S MOUNTAIN JS MODEL, Version 1.0 (2014), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13106&DocID=3648>.
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Timberlake, T., & Belloni, M. (2014). Newton's Mountain JS Model (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13106&DocID=3648
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Timberlake, Todd, and Mario Belloni. "Newton's Mountain JS Model." Version 1.0. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13106&DocID=3648 (accessed 25 April 2024).
MLA Format
Timberlake, Todd, and Mario Belloni. Newton's Mountain JS Model. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2014. 25 Apr. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13106&DocID=3648>.
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@misc{ Author = "Todd Timberlake and Mario Belloni", Title = {Newton's Mountain JS Model}, Month = {January}, Year = {2014} }
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