Java 1.1 Physlets

Physlet jar files are available for downloading in up to three formats.  

  1. A  complete Java archive, jar,  file that can be used with an archive tag to embed the Physlet into an HTML document. The Physlet should  run without further modification but you must write your own HTML document.
  2. An applet-only jar file without the tools and graphics package.  This file will not run by itself.  You must also download the STools4.jar file and include this files in the archive tag.  See the instructions below for information about how to specify multiple jar files.
  3. A template file.  Templates contain an HTML page and all necessary jar files.  Download the file, unzip the contents into a hard drive, and open the file in a browser that supports both Java 1.1 and JavaScript to Java communication.

IMPORTANT: It is possible that the jar files included in a template package are out of date.  After you have downloaded the template and determined that it runs in your browser, you should download  and  replace the jar files contained in the template package.  The jar files come directly from our production web site and are always the most recent.

Tools Package Archive
STools4 STools4.jar

Consult the page devoted to each Physlet for documentation and sample scripts.  Consult the "Teaching with Physlets" book (available from Prentice Hall publihsers) for examples of Physlet curricular material.

Physlet Complete Archive Physlet Only Template
Animator Not Available Animator4_.jar Not Available
Bar Not Available Bar4_.jar Not Available
Black Body BlackBody.jar BlackBody4_.jar Blackbody
BField BField.jar BField4_.jar Not Available
Circuits Circuit.jar Circuit4_.jar Not Available
Data Graph Not Available DataGraph4_.jar Not Available
Data Table Not Available DataTable4_.jar Not Available
DLA Not Available DLA4_.jar Not Available
Doppler Doppler.jar Doppler4_.jar Not Available
EField Not Available EField4_.jar Not Available
EM Wave EMWave.jar EMWave4_.jar Not Available
Energy Eigenvalue EnergyEigenvalue.jar EnergyEigenvalue4_.jar Not Available
Faraday Faraday.jar Faraday4_.jar Not Available
Filters Not Available Filters4_.jar Not Available
Hydrogenic Wavefunctions Hydrogenic.jar Hydrogenic4_.jar Not Available
Mandelbrot set Mandelbrot.jar Not Available Not Available
Molecular Not Available Molecular4_.jar Not Available
Optics Bench Not Available Optics4_.jar Optics
Pipes Not Available Pipes4_.jar Not Available
Poisson Poisson.jar Poisson4_.jar Not Available
QTime QTime.jar QTime4_.jar Not Available
Random Walk Not Available WandomWalk4_.jar Not Available
Reflection Not Available Reflection4_.jar Not Available
Ripple Ripple.jar Ripple4_.jar Not Available
Slider Not Available Slider4_.jar Not Available
SoundOut SoundOut.jar Not Available Not Available
SPlotter Not Available SPlotter.jar Not Available
Superposition Superposition.jar Superposition4_.jar Not Available
Sync Not Available Sync4_.jar Not Available

Tools Library

The following archives contain Java packages that are that are common to most Physlets.  You must add these packages to the archive list in order to use the underscore version of a Physlet.  It is absolutely necessary that Physlets tools be in loaded from their own archive for inter-applet communication to function. 

Tools Package Archive
STools4 STools4.jar

The following shows how a Physlet is broken up into multiple java archives using a common tools libaray.  Use version 4 of  the STools package with version 4 applets.

Animator4.jar —> Animator4_.jar, STools4.jar
DataGraph4.jar —> DataGraph4_.jar,STools4.jar
DataTable4.jar —> DataTable4_.jar,STools4.jar

Older version 3 Physlets were broken up into three java archives:

Animator3.jar —> Animator3_.jar, SGraphics,jar, STools.jar
DataGraph.jar —> DataGraph_.jar, SGraphics,jar, STools.jar
DataTable.jar —> DataTable_.jar, SGraphics,jar, STools.jar

Notice that the STools4 package combines the STools and SGraphics packages into a single archive.  version 3 physlets are no longer supported.

Visit the Physlets Page or contact Wolfgang Christian .