YP Rectilinear Motion 1.0 (learn kinematics with your Mac)

[Info-Mac]

Download: http://archive.info-mac.org/sci/yp-rect ... ion-10.hqx

New MacOS software to learn kinematics

YP Rectilinear Motion 1.0 is targeted toward physics teachers and physics
students. It allows the user to plot a graph of velocity as a function of
time with simple mouse clicks. The program uses this graph to build a
graph of position vs time, and a graph of acceleration vs time, which are
displayed in separate windows. The motion described by these 3 plots can
be simulated. During the simulation, 3 vectors can be displayed in the
animation window (positon, velocity and acceleration), and the tangent line
can be drawn in the position and velocity graphs.

System Requirements: YP Rectilinear Motion runs on any Macintosh computer
with MAC OS 7, 8 or 9. It needs about 300 Kb on your hard disk and 3 Mb of
RAM.

Keywords: Physics teaching, sciences, motion, kinematics, graphs, slope,
tangent, position, velocity, speed, acceleration, vector, simulation,
animation.