New Copernican Revolution Simulations
Overview
This package contains 12 new simulations (most of which are new versions of old simulations) for teaching students about the Copernican Revolution. To explore the simulations just double-click the green arrow next to the name of the simulation in the list on the left.
More Information
For more information about these simulations, as well as a variety of other simulations created for the same course, please visit http://facultyweb.berry.edu/ttimberlake/copernican/. At this site you can find a package with the complete set of simulations I originally created for the course, some of which are now replaced by the simulations in this package. You can also find curricular materials designed to be used with these simulations.
Credits
- Paul Wallace first developed this course on the Copernican Revolution and wrote the first version of the textbook for the course. His work was the inspiration for developing these computer simulations.
- These simulations were developed using the Easy Java Simluations authoring tool by Francisco Esquembre (see the EJS Wiki page for more information).
- EJS is part of the Open Source Physics project by Wolfgang Christian and collaborators (see http://www.compadre.org/osp/ for more details).
- Both Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni provided much-needed assistance with improving the simulations in this package. Their feedback has been invaluable.
- The simulations were packaged using Launcher and LaunchBuilder by Doug Brown.
- All of the EJS simulations in this package (and any accompanying curricular materials) were developed by Todd Timberlake.
Copyright
The Java programs in the package are Open Source Physics (OSP) programs that were created using Easy Java Simulations (EJS) and are freely distributable under the GNU GPL license. For more information about the Open Source Physics project visit http://www.compadre.org/osp/.
All of the curricular materials (including the narratives in the Launcher package) are copyrighted by Todd Timberlake and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. You may modify and redistribute these materials for non-commercial use as long as you clearly cite Todd Timberlake as the original author and release the materials under the same license.
Todd K. Timberlake (ttimberlake@berry.edu)