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YP Rectilinear 1.0 (Mac)

Allows the user to plot a graph of velocity as a function of time. The program uses this graph to build a graph of position vs time, and a graph of acceleration vs time, which are displayed in separate windows. The motion described by these 3 plots can be simulated....

Tags: Graph, Apple Macintosh, Yves Pelletier, Construction

Software downloads 2001-11-20

YP DC Circuits 2.0 (Mac)

With YP DC Circuits you can build a virtual electric circuit including batteries, resistors and switches, and take measures on this circuit with an ammeter and a voltmeter. The circuit can be copied, printed or saved as a PICT file.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Circuit, Yves Pelletier, Engineering, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2001-10-08

YP Vernier 1.1 (Mac)

With YP Vernier, it is easy to learn how to use a vernier to measure length with great precision. YP Vernier simulates a vernier caliper on the screen. Using a scroll bar, the user moves the movable jaw, and the corresponding numerical value is displayed on the screen. The program...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Screen, Yves Pelletier, YP Vernier, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2001-06-29

Symbionts 2.8.6 (Mac)

Symbionts is an extension that monitors the startup process. Symbionts displays the name and number of bytes of memory each system extension allocates from the system heap. The name and number appear beneath the extension's icon, and since the name is usually truncated, Symbionts also displays it in the menu...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Extension, Yves Pelletier, Symbionts, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2001-02-16

YP Atwood 1.0 (Mac)

YP Atwood simulates a pulley simple or double driven by one or two suspended masses. Thisprogram is designed to study the kinematics and the dynamics of rotational motion with constantangular acceleration, and linear motion with constant acceleration. During the animation, up to 5vectors (position, velocity, acceleration, tension and weight) and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Acceleration, Yves Pelletier, YP Atwood, Thisprogram, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2001-01-11

YP Geneva Mechanism 1.0 (Mac)

A Geneva mechanism is used to provide an intermittant rotational motion of the driven part while the driver wheel rotates continuously. Thisprogram simulates a Geneva mechanism with 4 or 6 slots. It displays graphs describing the angular position and the angular velocity of bothparts of the mechanism, and it can...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Geneva, Mechanism, Velocity, Yves Pelletier, Thisprogram, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2001-01-11

YP Simple Pendulum 1.0 (Mac)

YP Simple Pendulum simulates a simple pendulum, allowing to study its motion, the forces exerted on it, and its various forms of energy. It is easy tochange the suspended mass, the length of the string and the maximum angle between the string and the vertical. During the animation, up to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Acceleration, Yves Pelletier, YP Simple Pendulum, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2000-09-27

YP Reflection 1.0.3 (Mac)

YP Reflection is designed to assist teachers and students when they study the laws of reflection in geometrical optics. The program provides the user with a lasersource that can be moved and rotated, and with a large quantity of mirrors that can be moved and rotated. The normal to the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mirror, Yves Pelletier, YP Reflection

Software downloads 2000-06-20

YP Circular 1.0.2 (Mac)

YP Circular simulates an object in uniform circular motion and/or an object in simple harmonic motion. Both motions circular and harmonic may be animatedsimultaneously to show that the uniform circular motion is a combination of two simple harmonic motions. Physics teachers use YP Circular to show that thevelocity is tangent...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Acceleration, Motion, Yves Pelletier, YP Circular, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2000-06-03

YP Image 1.0.1 (Mac)

YP Image is designed to assist teachers and students when they study imageformation by mirrors and thin lenses geometrical optics. It computes thelocation and magnification of the image formed by a spherical mirror or athin lens, and draws a ray diagram on the screen. The diagram may beprinted, copied to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Optics, Yves Pelletier, YP Image

Software downloads 2000-05-24

YP Vectors 1.0 (Mac)

YP Vectors displays a vector in two dimensions, and its two components. The user can change the magnitude and the direction of the vector using the mouse. A window shows the numerical value of the magnitude, the direction, the x component and the y component of the vector. The user...

Tags: Vector, Apple Macintosh, Yves Pelletier, Mice, Construction, Desktops, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2000-01-11

YP Slider Crank 1.1 (Mac)

YP Slider Crank simulates the motion of a piston activated by a slider crank mechanism. The crank is in uniform rotational motion constant angular velocity, causing the piston to move with a variable acceleration.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Piston, Yves Pelletier, YP Slider Crank, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 1999-12-08

YP Waves 1.0 (Mac)

YP Waves simulates up to 3 traveling sine waves simultaneously. It is easy to change the amplitude, wavelength, velocity and phase constant of each wave. This program is perfect to teach waves characteristics (amplitude, wavelength, etc.), the superposition principle, standing waves, interference of waves, beats, etc.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Wavelength, Yves Pelletier, YP Waves, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 1999-08-26

YP Gear 1.0.1 (Mac)

YP Gear has been designed for the study of gear trains. This Macintosh software simulates the motion of a gear train composed of 2, 3 or 4 gears. The user controls the size of each gear.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Gear, Yves Pelletier, YP Gear, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 1999-08-21

YP Collisions 1.0 (Mac)

YP Collisions simulates a two-dimensional collision between two particles. The user chooses the mass, the initial velocity magnitude and direction, and the coefficient of restitution. An animation shows the motions of the particles before and after the collision, and the following information is displayed: final velocity of each particle, impulse...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Collision, Particle, Yves Pelletier, YP Collisions, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 1998-12-05

YP Projectiles 1.1 (Mac)

YP Projectiles is a projectile motion simulator designed for physics teachers and students. To simulate a trajectory, the user chooses the initial velocity magnitude and direction, the vertical displacement component and the gravitational acceleration. The software then draws the parabolic trajectory and writes its main characteristics: range, maximum height reached,...

Tags: Trajectory, Apple Macintosh, Yves Pelletier, YP Projectiles, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 1998-11-29

YP Refraction 1.0 (Mac)

YP Refraction is a tool to learn all about the refraction of light (Snell's law) in geometrical optics. The program provides a laser source that can be moved around a prism. Six different prisms are available: a simple frontier between two media of different index of refraction, a semicircular prism,...

Tags: Angle, Apple Macintosh, Indice, Yves Pelletier, YP Refraction, Productivity

Software downloads 1998-09-19

YP Planetary Gear 1.0.1 (Mac)

YP Planetary Gear is designed to assist teachers and students when they study the working of a planetary gear train. this software is not related in any way with astronomy. A planetary gear train is a mechanism consisting of an assembly of meshed gears: the sun gear, the planet carrier,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Gear, Yves Pelletier, YP Planetary Gear, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 1997-07-09