Newtons Aquarium 1.1

Newtons Aquarium is an interactive physics package that helps students visualize and understand Newtons Law of Universal Gravitation. While creating and exploring their own solar systems, students encounter the core concepts in classical physics. Newtons Aquarium was designed for use in senior high school and college physics courses.
Newtons Aquarium is a solar system construction set that allows students to create and explore situations involving any number of stars, planets, moons and asteroids. This software takes an interactive, visual approach to physics.
Newtons Aquarium will help students develop an intuition for orbital mechanics. Students will gain a better understanding of the physics behind the images. By creating and exploring their own solar systems with Newtons Aquarium, students encounter the core concepts in classical physics.
Main features:
Core Topics
- Forces and Newtons Laws of Motion
- Mass and weight
- Free-body diagrams
- Center of mass and conservation of momentum
- Newtons 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.