Classical Mechanics with MATLAB Applications by Javier E. Hasbun

Instructions for the Java applications

1) Using a web browser, open the file mechanics.htm. This file contains the links to
all the available applications.
2) Clicking on an application opens up separate window with an application botton.
3) Click the application botton to invoke the application, which is similar to an applet.
4) Some applications do calculations and others do animations. Press appropriate bottons.
For calculations, a calculate botton is available. For annimations and simulations, an
initialize, then a start boton are available.
5) To change the input parameters of the applications, click on the window that contains
the data. Change the desired parameter and press returns, the press the calculate or
initialize bottons as appropriate. For annimations, initialize every time a parameter
is changed. After the initialize botton is pressed, a start botton will appear. To stop
the annimation or simulation press stop. Calculations, annimations and simulations contain
another bottom which resets the application. Resetting the application loads the initial
parameters.

Notes:
The java applications perform the same calculations as the text's Matlab scripts do.
These are provided to enable users to do the text's computations in case Matlab is
not available. Clicking any of the htm files, will load the jar file and allow the
application to run after one more click at the appearing application botton. Be sure your
computer is java enabled to run the application. See other notes at the end of this file.

To use these applications on a local computer, download all the htm files, including
the jar file to a local directory. 
Clicking any of the htm files will load the jar file and allow the application to 
run after one more click at the appearing application botton. The java applications 
have been developed using the Open source physics framework. 
Please refer to the author's website: http://www.westga.edu/~jhasbun/osp/osp.htm
for further information. The source code is available under the OSP concept from this
website, and can be compiled with Eclipse, an open source developing platform 
(http://www.eclipse.org/).

The Open Source Physics code is being distributed under the GNU GPL 
[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html] license. Also to run the applications, 
the Java engine is needed from http://java.sun.com/getjava. To write the actual
programs, the OSP framework is needed: http://www.opensourcephysics.org/download.