The theme of the website which you can enter below is actually the computer simulation of quantum mechanics, but you can also find a modest relativistic flight simulator. There are a couple of other programs on special relativity and also other programs on topics like the Van Allen belt.
This relativistic flight simulator is available in two versions. There is a QBasic version to run in interpreted source code mode. Better than that is a PKZIPped compiled object code version with instructions on how to run it in unzip-and-go mode. The faster the computer, the smoother the action will be. Compiled code runs faster than interpreted code.
This means that a QBasic program may be treated as if it were an applet, and JAVA programmers may be interested to see how this is done. If anyone wants to translate this relativistic flight simulator program into JAVA, perhaps with improvements, please let the author know and a hotlink will appear as appropriate. You won't be surprised to hear the opinion expressed that the worldwide distribution of a relativistic flight simulator ought to be a primary purpose of the Internet. The author has also produced a separate page of links to other people's relativistic flight simulators to underpin this opinion.
Better still, you will see that this particular relativistic flight simulator finishes by giving the user the means to access the author's GATEWAY TO PHYSICS so that if the user were to have only this one program, he or she could still relocate the parent website and also TIPTOP and other useful sources of information for physicists. Better relativistic flight simulators will be featured on the Gateway as they become available. You are permitted to make copies of the relativistic flight simulator and hand them to your acquaintances, subject to the author's intellectual property rights.
Please spread the word. The magic expression to use is 'relativistic flight simulator'. Please tell this to your friends, so that if they search for this kind of material, they know where to start.
If you have written a program in a language such as Pascal, you can publish that on the Internet by compiling it and PKZIPping it. The procedure is much the same as with QBasic programs. Look at how it is done with QBasic to get the idea.
Note that you can get both source code to run in an interpreter, and compiled object code to run on any Pentium with MS-DOS or Windows. JAVA programmers are asked to get hold of a JAVA compiler (they do exist), and provide PKZIPped object code to run on any Pentium with an old-fashioned web browser where no JAVA interpreter is available. An interpreted JAVA relativistic flight simulator might be rather disappointing in performance: we really do need object code. There are thus two reasons to provide object code. It is of course possible for a web browser to compile a JAVA program before running it, but this is not yet standard practice.
You may also provide a second compiled version of your program to run in the UNIX operating system. This is simply up to you, depending upon how keen you are on publishing your program. The value of being able to do a given task by more than one means needs to be stressed. Not everyone has the perfect inventory of hardware and software that you might like to assume, and the more different routes you give them the better. We will meet this theme of providing more than one route again ...
Tt is recommended that if your JAVA website appears in TIPTOP, then you include a reciprocal hotlink like the one below, to enhance the performance of any spider robots. This is in your own interest. Your website is vulnerable to being dropped at random from any search engine, but the situation can soon be remedied if you get into the habit of reciprocating hotlinks.
The author is open to offers to reciprocate hotlinks like the one below directly between your website and his. The more connectivity the better, notwithstanding the apparent redundancy. Contact the author on 100425.3501@compuserve.com to negotiate an exchange.
Most enquiries within TIPTOP lead to a dynamically-generated result page, which is of no use to the author. The VLAB page is a static page, and that is why he is keen to be on it. Both the VLAB page and this page can be submitted to every common search engine, and we have the extra security that if a link to a search engine is broken at random, then it can be repaired via the link to the other page. If many people link like this to the VLAB page, then its stability is assured. Do your bit!
To continue this theme, we have added reinforcing links to TIPTOP's home page, and to the pages in Galaxy and Yahoo which point to TIPTOP. It would help if you put all these links on your website as well.
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