Computer Abstractions and Mathematics

• Airy equation (xls) macros - MAT 265
• Arbitrary # digit roots - MAT 121 and CSC 161
• Computer speed applet - CSC 160
• Hamilton graph (Travelling Salesman) simulation - simulated annealing - project from CSC 161
• Parking lot simulation applet project from CSC 240

Physics simulations

These simulations were written mostly in Java or Excel by R. Philbin for his courses in conjunction and cooperation with students from those courses.

• Solar System Simulator for AST 101

• Brownian Motion (as "proof" of the existence of atoms)
• Internal Combustion Engine (xls)
• Model of Earth's Surface Temperature - Thermal greenhouse effect
• Fick's law of heat diffusion (xls)
• Planetary Atmosphere Simulation

• Electrostatic Landscape (xls)
• E and B fields and Poynting vector fields of powerline (xls)
• Demise of the classical Hydrogen atom (xls)

• Blackbody radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe
• Bohr's hydrogen atom model