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written by David Scherer
edited by Bruce Sherwood

VPython is a 3D programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University that is useful for presenting visualizations of physical phenomena. VPython is free and open-source. It includes: the Python programming language, an enhanced version of the Idle interactive development environment, and "Visual", a Python module that offers real-time 3D output, and is easily usable by novice programmers.

https://www.vpython.org/

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Other Sciences - Computer Science	- Informal Education - Lower Undergraduate - High School - Graduate/Professional - Upper Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Curriculum support = Interactive Simulation = Laboratory - Audio/Visual = Image/Image Set = Movie/Animation

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2002
Keywords:: 3D, computer modeling, development environment, graphical animation, graphics, programming, programming, simulation, visualization
Record Creator:: Date Metadata Instance was created March 20, 2003 by Waylon Flinn
Record Updated:: August 19, 2020 by Lyle Barbato
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Intro Physics Book

Author: Cadie Boyung
Posted: September 29, 2009 at 1:20PM
Source: The Nucleus collection

I used this book for my intro physics courses and enjoyed the book at the time. It is not the absolute best physics book, but for intro classes it has a lot of useful information and I have found it useful for a reference when I forget basic physics stuff

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