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 single measurements of spins-1/2 systems in quantum mechanics.
Select the Tutorial or Multiple Measurements tab at the bottom of this window to navigate to the tutorial or the exercises.
The book Open Source Physics: A Users Guide with Examples by W. Christian (Addison Wesley 2007) provides a description of these programs and 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).