home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Troubleshooting Netware Systems
/
CSTRIAL0196.BIN
/
attach
/
pcc
/
v08n06
/
chemist.exe
/
TEDDEMO2.EXE
/
BARO.MID
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1990-04-01
|
2KB
|
36 lines
Barometric Distribution in a Gravitational Field
_____________________________________________________
In this experiment the particles move in a homogeneous
horizontal gravitational field. (The height is measured along the
horizontal axis in this experiment.) The particles start from nearly
the same point with nearly zero velocity. The on-line diagram shows
the time averaged horizontal density distribution.
The density distribution after several thousand time steps
proves to be similar to the theoretical exponential curve.
We can produce a strange picture if we switch off the mutual
collisions immediately after the start of the experiment using the
<F5> key. Because collisions are allowed now only against the
(adiabatic) walls the particles move along independent parabolic
paths. These paths can be observed by switching on the particle
tracing by the <F2> key. Since all particles have started with
nearly the same speed each particle reaches nearly the same maximal
height, above that height one gets vacuum. This strange picture is
dramatically changed when mutual collisions are permitted (press the
<F5> key agin). Energetic particles reach high elevations while slow
particles bounce just on the floor and we get back the exponential
density distribution after a while.
Control keys:
<F2> : switch ON/OFF tracing of a randomly selected particle
<F4> : switch ON/OFF shot noise
<F5> : switch ON/OFF mutual collisions of the particles
<Del>: reset the time averaged velocity distribution
<P> : temporarily suspend the simulation, resume it by pressing
any key
<Esc>: stop the simulation