Shodor Computational Science Institute

Ropes and Balls

So what did the group come up with for things ropes and balls could model?

  • a rope
    • rope (of course)
    • a bird
    • an orbit
    • endoplasmic reticulum
    • a subway system
    • DNA
    • the genesis of both chaos and cooperation
  • a ball
    • a ball(who would've thunk it?)
    • Earth
    • a planet for its spherical geometry
    • its bouncing to illustrate consevation of energy-momentary damped oscillation
    • a cell's nucleus with endoplasmic reticulum


Last update on: June 1, 1998
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