Geostationary Earth Orbit Satellite 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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Geostationary Earth Orbit Satellite Model

written by Loo Kang Wee

The Geostationary Earth Orbit Satellite Model is a simple angular velocity model that uses Java3D for a realistic visualization of satellites in geostationary orbits. Students can view and explore the behavior of geostationary orbits, non-geostationary orbits, and non-physical orbits. This model tests the Java 3D implementation of the EJS 3D library. A warning message will appear if the Java 3D library is not available.

The Geostationary Earth Orbit Satellite Model was developed using the Easy Java Simulations (EJS) modeling tool. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the jar file will run the program if Java is installed. You can modify this simulation if you have EJS installed by right-clicking within the map and selecting "Open Ejs Model" from the pop-up menu item.

Please note that this resource requires Java3D.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.6 of Java (JRE).

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Last Modified: August 25, 2013
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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Gravity = Kepler's Laws = Orbits	- Lower Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation = Simulation

Intended Users	Formats	Ratings
- Learners - Educators - General Publics	- application/java	Currently 5.0/5 Rated 5.0 stars by 1 person Want to rate this material? Login here!

Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Rights Holder:: Loo Kang Wee
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created April 8, 2012 by Wolfgang Christian
Record Updated:: August 25, 2013 by Matt Mohorn
Last Update when Cataloged:: April 8, 2012

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Geostationary Earth Orbit Satellite Model:

Is Based On Easy Java Simulations Modeling and Authoring Tool

The Easy Java Simulations Modeling and Authoring Tool is needed to explore the computational model used in the Geostationary Earth Orbit Satellite Model.

relation by Wolfgang Christian

Is Version Of Geostationary Satellite around Earth Model

this is shared model in the OSP digital library.
thanks to Prof Paco for EJS and an earlier model that is resource is based on.

relation by wee lookang

Is Referenced By Ejs Open Source Earth and Moon Model

Ejs Open Source Earth and Moon Model is by Professor Francisco Esquembre aka Paco for which this resource is created/remixed from.
thanks Prof Paco!

relation by wee lookang

Is Based On Examples Earth and Moon 3 D

This program shows the Moon revolving around the Earth. The model is not real since the example is just to show the new Java 3D-based visualization capabilities of EJS.

relation by wee lookang

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