APS Excellence in Physics Education Award
November 2019
Science SPORE Prize
November 2011
The Open Source Physics Project is supported by NSF DUE-0442581.
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Newton's Mountain JS Model Documents
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Main Document
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.
Published January 5, 2014
Last Modified December 30, 2014
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Primary Documents
An EPUB file containing the Newton's Mountain simulation,
a general description, and the features of the simulation.
Published June 27, 2014
Last Modified July 28, 2018
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Newton's Mountain JS Model
