Cheers, Roger
Message: 1 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:27:57 -0800 From: Jim Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OT Some Run Rev simulations To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"
Greetings all,
I have posted a Run Rev stack on my web site. The eventual stand-alone will be offered (gratis) on the Web as a complement to a book of mine which will be published shortly. Some of this may not make much sense without the book, but some is relatively intuitive.
There are five interactive applications:
1) The law of large numbers (actually a variant thereof) demonstrates the fact that for systems with a large number of components, there is one macrostate which is overwhelmingly more probable than any other at the given energy, volume and particle numbers.
2) This a simple experiment to demonstrate Newton's thinking in linking the motion of a projectile here on earth to the motion of the moon about the earth and the planets about the sun. (I am working on a version of this which allows for various power laws, not just the inverse square.)
3) Temperature is defined as the reciprocal of the slope of the entropy vs. energy curve. This application shows that that is not as ridiculous a definition as it sounds.
4) Time asymmetry paradox: This application demonstrates how a system, composed of elementary particles that behave symmetrically in time, will behave asymmetrically in time.
5) A rainbow paradox: Red light shinning on a raindrop is reflected as a cone of light. How do these conical beams produce the red bow in the rainbow? And why are the colors of the red, orange, green and blue cones separated to produce the colors of the rainbow?
My apologies to anyone who looks to the scripting for enlightenment. I am strictly an instant-gratification-programmer.
There are two files: TimeMac.zip and TimePC.zip, which are the Mac and PC versions respectively. They are to be found at http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/ They are relatively large files, about 3 megs each.
Jim
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