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Newton's Aquarium™ A Solar System Construction Set |
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Newton's Aquarium™ is an interactive physics package that helps students visualize and understand Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation. While creating and exploring their own solar systems, students encounter the core concepts in classical physics. Newton's Aquarium™ was designed for use in senior high school and college physics courses. |
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Core Topics - Forces and Newton's Laws of Motion - Mass and weight - Free-body diagrams - Center of mass and conservation of momentum - Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation Key Features - Trajectory tracing - Display of velocity, acceleration and force vectors - Variable G and distance exponent - Interactive real-time n-body simulation (using 4th order Runge-Kutta error correction) - Sample documents, online help and student activities |
Screen Shots  Available Languages - English |
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- Windows® 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP - 5 MB available hard disk space - 32 MB available memory - a video card with OpenGL hardware acceleration |
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System Requirements |
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- Mac OS 7.0 or later - 2 MB available memory - 68020 processor or faster |
| Ordering We accept major credit cards, checks, wire transfers and PAYPAL. You can place your order online or by fax or phone. Pricing and other details are on the ordering pages. |
| Order Newton's Aquarium™ 1.0b2 for Windows® |
Order Newton's Aquarium™ 1.1 for Mac OS (Classic) |
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Please read our Institution and Home license agreements. |
| What do you think of this product? Send us your feedback. Reviews |
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PhysLink.com  |
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| "In our opinion, Newton's Aquarium™ is one of the most useful solar simulation software packages available on the market." | |
MacReview.com  |
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| "Watching planets interact with each other can be mesmerizing (and fun) and should easily hold students attention while encouraging them to learn." | |
| David Pooley, Physics Graduate Student | |
| "Newton's Aquarium™ excels at giving students the chance to explore [what if questions] regarding Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation and basic celestial mechanics." | |
| SKY & Telescope (review by John Mosley) | |
| "Newton's Aquarium™ was designed for high-school and college students who, the author believes, will enjoy learning about gravity more by playing with systems in motion than by calculating orbits. He is right--the program makes learning fun." | |
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