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YP Rectilinear Motion 1.0


YP Rectilinear Motion YP Rectilinear Motion - Plots a graph of velocity

System Requirememts
System 7 or later
Download Details
Company Yves Pelletier
Version 1.0
Post Date May 25, 2009
License Shareware
File Size 277 KB
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YP Rectilinear Motion 1.0


YP Rectilinear Motion - Plots a graph of velocity
YP Rectilinear Motion is targeted toward physics teachers and physics students. It allows the user to plot a graph of velocity as a function of time with simple mouse clicks.

The program uses this graph to build a graph of position vs time, and a graph of acceleration vs time, which are displayed in separate windows.

The motion described by these 3 plots can be simulated. During a YP Rectilinear Motion simulation, 3 vectors can be displayed in the animation window (positon, velocity and acceleration), while the tangent line can be seen in the position and velocity diagrams.

Main features of YP Rectilinear Motion:

  • The "Position" window: graph of position as a function of time (the initial position is always zero).
  • The "Velocity" window: graph of velocity as a function of time.
  • The "Acceleration" window: graph of acceleration as a function of time.
  • The "Animation" window: simulation of the motion described by the velocity graph.


    Requirements of YP Rectilinear Motion:

  • 300 Kb on your hard disk
  • 3 Mb of RAM.


    Limitations of YP Rectilinear Motion:

  • Some features are disabled.
  • Runs on Mac OS Classic only