Draft Chapters: Gould, Tobochnik, and Christian
All files are in pdf format
- Chapter 1, Introduction, pages 2 - 11. Updated 15 January 2002.
- Chapter 2, Introduction to Java, pages 13 - 44. Updated 11 February 2002.
- Chapter 3, Inheritance and Interfaces, pages 36 - 48. Updated 16 February 2002.
- Chapter 4, Input and Output: the Open Source Physics
Tools, pages 50 - 71. Updated 16 February 2002.
- Chapter 5, Motion in One Dimension, pages 72 - 93. Updated 14 February 2002.
- Chapter 6, Oscillations and Threads, pages 95 - 125. Updated 21 February 2002. The pendulum programs have not been tested.
The following files are still preliminary and will be rewritten several times before handed out. They are listed here to give you an idea of the nature of these chapters.
- Chapter 7, Two-Dimensional Trajectories and the
ODE Interface, pages 189 - 214. 15 January 2002.
- Chapter 8, The Two-Body Problem. Available on request only
Parts of the following chapter has been converted to Java, but not using the OpenSourcePhysics library.
- Chapter 6, Chaotic Motion of Dynamical Systems, pages 152 - 208. 27 March 2001.
The following chapters are from the second edition and are in True Basic.
- Chapter 7, Random Processes, pages 210 - 242. Updated 12 April 2001.
- Chapter 8, Dynamics of Many Particle Systems, pages 216 - 267. Updated 5 December 2000.
- Chapter 9, Normal Modes and Waves, pages 269 - 299. Updated 5 December 2000.
- Chapter 10, Electrodynamics, pages 301 - 339. Updated 5 December 2000. (A draft of a Java version is available upon request.)
- Chapter 11, Numerical Integration and Monte Carlo Methods, pages 367 - 401. Updated 24 April 2001.
- Chapter 12, Random Walks, pages 403 - 441. Updated 24 April 2001.
- Chapter 13, Percolation, pages 443 - 470. Updated 24 April 2001.
- Chapter 14, Fractals, pages 470 - 517. Updated 24 April 2001.
- Chapter 15, Complexity, pages 518 - 555. Updated 24 April 2001.
- Chapter 16, Demon algorithm, pages 558 - 577. Updated 22 April 2002.
- Chapter 17, Ising model, pages 579 - 634. Updated 22 April 2002.
Updated 14 June 2002.