Information on this Animation: 3.2

Figure 3.2

Five particles are displayed as transparent PINK spheres. The volume of the particles are proportional to the mass of each.

A sixth particle, displayed as a transparent ORANGE sphere, represents the total mass of all the particles and is volume proportional. It is located at the center of mass of the system of five particles

The user can enable the particles to move with a velocity and translation.

Using the appropriate checkboxes, the user may display associated velocity vectors:

  1. Positions are displayed as RED VECTORS

  2. Velcities are displayed as GREEN VECTORS

  3. Accelerations are displayed as BLUE VECTORS

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