| Product Name: |
Hooke's Law |
| Level: |
a Year 12 class/ First Year Tertiary |
| Platform: |
Macintosh® |
| Supplied Information: |
A simple simulation of Hooke's Law. |
| Possible Use: |
This product is suitable for a Year 12 class/ First Year Tertiary courses for use by students without supervision. This product could be used for 10-20 minutes. |
| Price: |
Freeware |
| Developer/s: |
Peter Logan, UTS & David Bailey,University of Western Sydney |
| Review: |
Hookeís Law is a simple program that illustrates, well ..., Hookeís Law. The user drags and drops weights onto a spring, and the program then plots points on an extension versus applied mass graph. The user may then join the dots together to illustrate the linear relationship between force and extension, and calculate the spring constant. The spring constant may be altered. Several lines can be plotted on the one graph for comparison. Hookeís Law is simple and easy to use. It could be used by students or as a five minute lecture demonstration. One might like more out of the program, such as a plot of potential energy versus extension, but it is still a useful little program. However, being written in 1987, it wonít run on system 7.+. |
|
Mick Pope, UniServe Science, PhySciCH@extro.ucc.su.oz.au |
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| Supplier: |
Suzanne Hogg, UTS Applied Physics, University of Technology, Sydney |
|
S.Hogg@uts.edu.au |
| Date Record Last Modified: |
6/1/97 |
