Type of Resource | Class activity |
Topic | Other |
Taxa | Model systems |
Organizational Level | Organismal |
Estimated time to do activity | half-hour |
Background required/level | any |
Role of activity in your course | Lecture enhancement. |
What students might learn from this course or activity | The role of drag in real-world trajectories. |
Special tools, equipment or software needed | Java-equipped computer.
Browser requirement: Safari on a Mac, Internet Explorer on a PC
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URLs | Complete package to run in your webbrowser:
http://sicb.org/dl/biomechanicsfiles/trajectories.html
To run the program locally on your computer (no internet connection necessary), download the following two files into the same folder (right click on link, then select "save target/link as"). To run the program open the html file on your harddisk in an internet browser.
http://sicb.org/dl/biomechanicsfiles/trajectories/program.html
http://sicb.org/dl/biomechanicsfiles/trajectories/DraggyV3.jar |
Safety precautions, possible permissions necessary | none |
Miscellaneous advice - pitfalls to avoid | If there are any bugs/problems, please contact me at Tiffany.Chen@duke.edu . |
Description | This is a program that graphs trajectories of projectiles from very large to very small, with reasonable estimates of drag. |
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