OSP Spins Launcher
Package
by
Mario Belloni and
Wolfgang Christian
OSP Spins Java Program by Wolfgang Christian
Original Spins Macintosh Program by Daniel Schroeder
and Thomas Moore [Am. J. Phys. 61,
798 (1993)]
Original SPINS Java Program by David McIntyre
This Launcher package (in the form of an executable java archive or jar file) contains ready-to-run OSP programs and a set of curricular materials for the teaching of measurement of spins-1/2 systems in quantum mechanics.
The book Open Source Physics: A Users Guide with Examples by W. Christian (Addison Wesley 2007) provides a description of the entire Open Source Physics (OSP) project.
All programs are feely distributable under the GNU GPL license.
Additional information about the OSP project can be obtained from
http://www.opensourcephysics.org/
Partial funding for this work was obtained through
an Associated Colleges of the South Teaching with Technology Fellowship
NSF grants DUE-0126439 and
DUE-0442581
© Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian (2006).