Boston University Physics Applets: Orbits and Energy

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written by Andrew Duffy

This web page is an animation relating to orbital pathways. The user sets the initial velocity of an orbiting mass. One animation traces the path of the orbiting object and the other displays a simultaneous Energy vs. Time graph. Students can see a variety of resulting orbital trajectories, including circular, elliptical, parabolic, and head-on collision.

This item is part of a collection of simulation-based activities developed by the author to support first semester introductory physics curriculum. See Related Materials for a link to the full index.

http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/semester1/c17_orbits.html

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Gravity = Orbits	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation = Tutorial - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2002 Andrew Duffy, Boston University
Andrew Duffy, Boston University
Keywords:: aphelion, circular orbit, elliptical orbit, gravitational potential energy, hyperbolic orbit, orbit, parabolic orbit, perihelion
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created April 14, 2008 by Christopher Allen
Record Updated:: April 16, 2008 by Caroline Hall
Last Update when Cataloged:: March 28, 2008

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This is the full index of interactive Java simulations by the same author on Classical Mechanics. This particular collection is devoted to topics typically covered in a first semester introductory physics class.

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