written by Wolfgang Christian
supported by the National Science Foundation

The EJS Ceiling Bounce Model shows a ball launched by a spring-gun in a building with a very high ceiling and a graph of the ball's position or velocity as a function of time.  Students are asked set the ball's inital velocity so that it barely touches the ceiling.  This simple model is  a designed to teach both physics and EJS modeling.

The Ceiling Bounce model was created using the Easy Java Simulations (EJS) version 4.1 modeling tool.  It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive.  Double clicking the ejs_mecvh_newtion_CeilingBounce.jar file will run the program if Java is installed.  EJS is a part of the Open Source Physics Project and is designed to make it easier to access, modify, and generate computer models.

• Download ejs_mech_newton_CeilingBounce.jar - 1212kb Java Archive File

Last Modified June 2, 2014

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

• Download ejs_mech_newton_CeilingBounce.zip - 10kb Compressed File

Last Modified June 2, 2014

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