Relative Motion on an Elevator Model

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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Relative Motion on an Elevator Model

written by Francisco Esquembre

The Relative Motion on an Elevator model displays the relative motion as seen by two classical observers. The eight-years old kid Pepe Neurons plays yo-yo in an elevator with transparent walls in a shopping mall and his sister, Lola, looks at him from the ground floor of the shopping mall while he does so. Watch the motion of the kids, the elevator and the yo-yo from either Lola's or Pepe's perspective.

The Relative Motion on an Elevator 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_murcia_mech_RelativeMotionOnElevator.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java (JRE).

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Last Modified: June 11, 2014
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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Motion in One Dimension = Position & Displacement - Relative Motion = Moving Reference Frames	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation = Simulation

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Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a GNU General Public License Version 3 license.
Rights Holder:: Francisco Esquembre
Keywords:: EJS, Easy Java Simulation, computer model, elevator simulation, frames of reference, interactive simulation, relative motion model
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created April 16, 2010 by Wolfgang Christian
Record Updated:: June 11, 2014 by Andreu Glasmann
Last Update when Cataloged:: April 15, 2010

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