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Fun with Hookes' Law

Posted by michael on from the killing-time dept.

Grimwiz writes, "How much fun can you have with springs and masses - boring engineering you may think, think again..." What a time-waster! All the parameters on the left are adjustable....

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  1. Re:so much fun by Tassach · · Score: 2
    would be PERFECT if source would be available

    There are many good decompil ers available for Java .class files. Because of the way javac and the JVM work, it's very easy to get human-readable Java source out of (unobfuscated) .class files.


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  2. Teaching tool by Louis_Wu · · Score: 2
    I'm an engineering student and I love this applet! My classes in vibrations (I've taken the one required and two extras) and controls are now ways to play. BTW, for those not in the know, a positive feedback is when the system 'blows up'; negative feedback is the control term for a system that goes to equilibrium.

    It seems that regular geometric shapes which have been overconstrained (supports from one node going to many other nodes) are nearly stable. The ones I've played with only change shape when they are pushed over a certain energy/position limit. Pretty darn cool. It reminds me of contol systems, vibrations, mechanisms (vice grips and the good-ol-fashioned four bar mechanism), and energy theories of all types.

    I want this applet on my computer, with a Save option. Sigh, more code to drool over.

    Louis Wu


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