Where can we get the Intellimation Macintosh-based software entitled, “Coulomb,” mentioned in Unit 19 of the Workshop Physics Activity Guide?
A [7.3.04] Priscilla Laws, Dickinson College: No new version of Coulomb exists or is planned. In fact, we’ve always had trouble with the printing. We prefer screen capture software (such as Grabber for Mac OS X and Screenshot for Mac OS 8 or 9.) On Windows you can just hit the Print Screen button and paste into an application like MSPaint. Q: I have had continuing difficulties with the modeling worksheet which we use a lot. I find it is unstable in the following sense – the axes spontaneously change – almost always to 0 -100 on the x-axis. Why can’t one do any calculations on the sheet in another region – i.e., convert the data from English to metric? How does it determine how many points to plot? A [01.07.97] Priscilla Laws, Dickinson College: You mentioned that the worksheet axes are unstable in Microsoft Excel. Excel is programmed to automatically rescale graphs. This is bad when doing modeling, so you can go in and reset the scale to whatever you want. Excel’s autoscale is then dis
