Newton's Mountain JS Model

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Science SPORE Prize
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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.

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Published: January 5, 2014
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Published: June 27, 2014

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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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Access Rights:: Free access
License:: 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
Last Update when Cataloged:: January 5, 2014

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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/OSP/items/detail.cfm?ID=13106">Timberlake, Todd, and Mario Belloni. "Newton's Mountain JS Model." Version 1.0.</a>

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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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Timberlake, T., & Belloni, M. (2014). Newton's Mountain JS Model (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved October 7, 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 7 October 2024).

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Timberlake, Todd, and Mario Belloni. Newton's Mountain JS Model. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2014. 7 Oct. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13106&DocID=3648>.

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