Tag: physics
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Electron sausages?
I just paused writing an article where I tried to give a quick overview of quantum mechanics. Ha Ha It ended up being a few paragraphs, a few images, and a crap load of links to Wikipedia. I’m not going to write anything like that anytime soon, and definitely not in a single blog post.…
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The best surprises come from unexpected places
This time I’m back with some more physics visualizations with a flat 2d canvas. I’m skipping over some demos of basic physics to get at some orbital mechanics animations that I found surprising. I’ve derived and calculated solutions for two objects gravitationally bound to each other from my freshman physics classes back in college. Then…
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Speed of sound
I’ve finally written some code that works in IE8.0, chrome and firefox. Rather than drawing complex fractals and solutions to equally archane differential equations, I’m trying to build some simple demos using more easily understood principles and mathematics. Now this is a very simple model that just shows the general principles of how something like…