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| <h2>Tutorial 5: Hooke's Law</h2> | |
| By Sean Luke | |
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| [<a href="tutorial5.html">Tutorial 5</a> documentation] | |
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| <p>A demonstration of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooke's_law">Hooke's Law</a>. Balls of random location and mass are connected arbitrarily with rubber bands of random strength and minimum lax distance. You can change the number of balls and bands. | |
| <p>Because the system is initially at zero velociy, it stays in equilibribium. But if a fast-moving ball were to suddenly increase in mass, the system would be thrown out of equilibrium and start heading off-screen. Try it! Inspect a ball and change it mid-run. | |
| <p><hr><font color='red'>Note:</font> this description is different from the one which appears after following the tutorial documentation. This is because the tutorial documentation overrides the <tt>getInfo</tt> method to provide a description. If this method is not overridden, MASON instead tries to display a file called <tt>index.html</tt> stored in the same directory as the simulation (which is what's going on here). | |
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