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Newton's Mountain JS Model
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Todd Timberlake and Mario Belloni
The EJS Newton's Mountain JS model illustrates the motion of a projectile launched from the top of a VERY tall mountain on Earth. The diagram shown in the simulation is taken from Newton's A Treatise on the System of the World, which he wrote after the Principia, but the basic idea is found in the Principia itself. Newton concluded that a projectile launched horizontally with sufficient speed would orbit Earth rather than crashing to Earth's surface. Thus the motion of a projectile fired on Earth was not qualitatively different from that of the moon orbiting Earth.
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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=13106">Timberlake, Todd, and Mario Belloni. "Newton's Mountain JS Model." Version 1.0.</a>
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T. Timberlake and M. Belloni, Computer Program NEWTON'S MOUNTAIN JS MODEL, Version 1.0 (2014), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13106&DocID=3648).
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T. Timberlake and M. Belloni, Computer Program NEWTON'S MOUNTAIN JS MODEL, Version 1.0 (2014), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13106&DocID=3648>.
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Timberlake, T., & Belloni, M. (2014). Newton's Mountain JS Model (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved March 19, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13106&DocID=3648
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Timberlake, Todd, and Mario Belloni. "Newton's Mountain JS Model." Version 1.0. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13106&DocID=3648 (accessed 19 March 2025).
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Timberlake, Todd, and Mario Belloni. Newton's Mountain JS Model. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2014. 19 Mar. 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13106&DocID=3648>.
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@misc{
Author = "Todd Timberlake and Mario Belloni",
Title = {Newton's Mountain JS Model},
Month = {January},
Year = {2014}
}
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