Sliding Down an Inclined Plane Model

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The Sliding Down an Inclined Plane model displays an object sliding down on an incline plane. The object can be a box, a sphere, or a car. When the object reaches the bottom of the incline, it can be set to bounce (elastic collision) or stick (inelastic collision). The incline angle and the object's initial position can be changed by dragging. Auxiliary windows show position and velocity data as the object slides.

The Sliding Down an Inclined Plane 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 ejs_mech_newton_SlidingOnInclinedPlane.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 12, 2014
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Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a GNU General Public License Version 3 license.
Rights Holder:: Wolfgang Christian
Keywords:: elastic collision, gravitational acceleration, incline plane, inelastic collision
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created June 8, 2011 by Wolfgang Christian
Record Updated:: June 12, 2014 by Andreu Glasmann
Last Update when Cataloged:: June 7, 2011
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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just what I was looking for

Author: Gary
Posted: July 16, 2015 at 8:54AM
Source: The PSRC collection

wanted to see a simulation that compared a rolling sphere and a frictionless point particle down an inclined plane and this was just the thing (despite its name, which implies that it doesn't do the tolling case)

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