Attraction

At the end of AP Physics last year, our teacher required us to independently pursue our own research projects. Remembering the success of all those Hypercard stacks back in middle school, I chose to write a program.

Attraction simulates the movement of charged particles in various electric and magnetic fields and as they interact with one another. It is pre-programmed with several experiments for the user to carry out, and its random aspects ensure hours of fun! Well, maybe not, but it did fetch me an impressive grade. Here are a few screenshots with explanations:

31 Charges
Charge Spectrum
Random Fields

I submitted the project with a writeup that may as well be posted here, since it has a lot of information that I don't care to retype.

For that matter, since I've already turned in the source code, you may have the honor of viewing it as well.

Finally, those of you with Macintoshes can download and run the program itself: