Sliding down a ramp


Coefficient of kinetic friction
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The object slides down the ramp. You can plot the total mechanical energy (purple), gravitational potential energy (red), kinetic energy (green), and the thermal energy (black) as a function of time or position.

Simulation first posted on 6-4-2016. Written by Andrew Duffy

Updated 7-18-2017 (block instead of a ball) by AD
Updated 10-05-2017 with a legend for the graph
Updated 10-09-2017 with more convenient numbers
Updated 10-16-2017 to fix the step back function
Updated 06-05-2018 with energy readouts
Updated 06-25-2018 to show both the position graph and the time graph at the same time

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This simulation can be found in the collection at http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/classroom.html.

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