Great Circles Model

Study rotational dynamics with this simulation.
Download

Great Circles Model Ranking & Summary

Advertisement

  • Rating:
  • License:
  • Freeware
  • Publisher Name:
  • Cleon Teunissen
  • File Size:
  • 929 KB

Great Circles Model Tags


Great Circles Model Description

Great Circles Model is a small, Java based application designed to display the frictionless motion of a particle that is constrained to follow the surface of a perfect sphere. The sphere rotates underneath the particle, but since there is no friction, and the sphere is perfectly spherical, the motion of the particle is not influenced by the sphere. The simulation shows simultaneously the trajectory with respect to the inertial coordinate system, and the trajectory as seen from a point of view that is co-rotating with the sphere.


Great Circles Model Related Software