Note: This distribution has been superseded by a re-release in form of a CPAN module. Don't worry if you don't know what that is. Just have a look at App::Physics::ParticleMotion. To install the module and all its dependencies, you can also visit Task::App::Physics::ParticleMotion instead.
tk-motion is a tool to create particle simulations from any number of correlated second order differential equations. From a more mathematical point of view, one could also say it helps visualize the numeric solution of such differential equations. The program uses a 4th-order Runge-Kutta integrator to find the numeric solution of the specified differential equations.
The complete documentation: tk-motion.html
The documentation of the image creation tool:
tk-motion-img.html(not included above)
Example putput image: ex7f.png
The complete download: tk-motion-1.00.tar.gz
There's also a tutorial on how to find differential equations for particle systems using the Lagrangian. This is a bit of a cookbook style introduction to some theoretical physics: mech_diffeq.pdf
Please send your suggestions, inquiries, and feedback to tk-motion at steffen-mueller dot net.
Copyright (C) 2004 Steffen Mueller This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
(c) 2004 Steffen Müller; All rights reserved.
