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The Open Source Physics Project creates and distributes curricular material for physics education and computational physics. Compiled programs, curricular materials, a modeling environment, Java code libraries, and data analysis tools are included. The learning resources include interactive explorations, conceptual and analytic exercises, and tutorials. Open Source Physics projects include curriculum for computational physics and statistical physics, video analysis software, and upper division physics courses. Open Source Physics is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java.

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3 supplemental documents are available

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Open Source Physics: A User's Guide with Examples
This java archive (jar file) contains ready-to-run programs that show how to use the Open Source Physics Code library. The Open Source Physics: A Users Guide with Examples by W. Christian (Addison-Wesley 2007) provides a description of these programs and the entire …
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Published: June 26, 2006
Rights: Copyright, Wolfgang Christian. This material is made available free of charge consistent with the GNU General Public License. Details are available on the Open Source Physics website, http://www.opensourcephysics.org

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Open Source Physics: Demonstrations
This java archive (jar) file contains examples of advanced physics curricular material by Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian. This package is described in Chapter 16 of Open Source Physics: A User's Guide with Examples. Multiple examples are combined in this jar file as a Launcher package.
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Published: June 26, 2006
Rights: Copyright, Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian. This material is made available free of charge consistent with the GNU General Public License. Details are available on the Open Source Physics website, http://www.opensourcephysics.org

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Open Source Physics: Computer Simulation Methods
This java archive (jar) file contains examples from An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods, third edition by Harvey Gould, Jan Tobochnik, and Wolfgang Christian (Addison-Wesley 2007). Multiple examples are combined in this jar file as a Launcher package.
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Published: June 26, 2006
Rights: Copyright, Harvey Gould, Jan Tobochnik, and Wolfgang Christian. This material is made available free of charge consistent with the GNU General Public License. Details are available on the Open Source Physics website, http://www.opensourcephysics.org

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General Physics - Collections - Computational Physics	- Upper Undergraduate - Lower Undergraduate - Graduate/Professional	- Collection - Instructional Material = Interactive Simulation - Tool = Code = Software - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

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Keywords:: Java library, Java simulation, Open Source, computational physics, osp
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created March 3, 2006 by Bruce Mason
Record Updated:: July 12, 2022 by Bruce Mason
Last Update when Cataloged:: June 15, 2008
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Open Source Physics:

Contains Easy Java Simulations

Easy Java Simulations is a package of Java programming tools that simplifies the development of Java simulations of physical systems.

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Contains Tracker Video Analysis

The Tracker Video Analysis program is open source software the allows users to do sophticated analysis of still and video images. It has a wide range of tools for graphical overlays, filters, and multiple reference frames.

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Has the Format Of An Open Source XML Framework for Authoring Curricular Material

This article describes the XML framework of Open Source Physics packages.

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