written by Wolfgang Christian, Mario Belloni, and Anne Cox
content provider: Barbara Christian

The EJS Pendulum Energy Model shows a pendulum and associated energy bar charts. Users can change the initial starting point of the pendulum. This model is distributed with a middle-school physical science lesson plan.

The EJS Pendulum Energy model includes two supplemental documents (see below) that include a middle school lesson plan and a the student version of the program.

The Pendulum Energy Model was created using the Easy Java Simulations (EJS) modeling tool.  It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double clicking the ejs_middle_school_teacher_PendulumEnergy.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.  The user can modify this simulation if EJS is installed by right-clicking within the plot and selecting "Open Ejs Model" from the pop-up menu item.

• Download ejs_middle_school_teacher_pendulumEnergy.jar - 4098kb Java Archive File

Last Modified June 11, 2014

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EJS Pendulum Energy Model: Student Version is a simulation for physical science (middle and high) school students. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double clicking the ejs_middle_school_PendulumEnergy.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.

• Download ejs_middle_school_PendulumEnergy.jar - 2714kb Java Archive File

Published June 17, 2009
Last Modified December 17, 2009

This file has previous versions.

A pdf file with a teacher lesson plan for use with the Pendulum Energy Model.

• Download PendulumEnergyLessonPlan.pdf - 366kb Adobe PDF Document

Published June 17, 2009
Last Modified June 17, 2009

This file is included in the full-text index.

The source code zip archive contains an XML representation of the Pendulum Energy Model.  Unzip this archive in your Ejs workspace to compile and run this model using Ejs.

• Download ejs_middle_school_teacher_PendulumEnergy.zip - 1462kb Compressed File

Published June 17, 2009
Last Modified June 17, 2009