Find the fastest Path

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on: January 29, 2004, 10:47:02 pm » posted from:,,Satellite Provider

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In the above java applet, there are two different regions (green and yellow).

The condition is :

An object (red) located at the top left corner of the green region.

It is going to move to the bottom right corner of the yellow region.

Due to different friction in these two regions,

its speed is also different (green: V1 , yellow: V2)

You can change value of V1 and V2 from the textfield.

How to chose a path such that minimizes the travel time?

Those two arrors represent the velocity vectors at those two region.

You can click the left mouse button at the tip of the velocity vector

and drag it left and right, to change the traveling path.

To make it more interested. You can click the mouse button at the boundary,

and drag it up and down, to change the height of those two regions.

Press Start button to start the animation.

A red ball will move along the chosed path.

Another ball(blue) will follow the fastest path if you click the show checkbox:

When it stop, compare the ratio of L1/L2 and compare with V1/V2

Did you get the right answer?After how many tries?

Sounds familar? Fermat's principle states that:

The path of a ray of light between two points is the path that minimizes the travel time.

We can derives Snell's law from the relation found above

where index of refraction n₁ = c / v₁_,

c is the speed of light in vacuum, and

v₁

is the speed of light in the medium.

This is also true for other waves (e.g. sound wave) propagation between two different medium.


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Reply #1 on: October 04, 2004, 09:16:52 pm »

Dear Sir, what do you mean by L1/L2? I don't quite understand how the applet works. At a certain angle, the red path will take the least time (same as blue path). What does different is xx pt mean? The picture shows the source can be along the surface instead of the corner. Is it possible?

Thanks,
Christian Lee
NIE, Singapore


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Reply #2 on: March 04, 2007, 11:13:58 pm »

I am sorry. Our server was attacked by a hacker several months ago. Some of the files were deleted and I had to restored files from previous archive. And I restored an old version of this applet. There is no L1/L2 shown on the applet. Now, the latest and improved version is restored. Thank you!


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Reply #3 on: June 16, 2009, 10:16:41 am » posted from:Taipei,T\'ai-pei,Taiwan

The following is a similar version created with EJS.
You can drag the star point (at the top) and end point(at the bottom) horizontally.
The velocity v change the moving speed.
Speed at upper half v₁=v/n₁, speed at lower half v₂=v/n₂.

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Reply #4 on: July 21, 2010, 07:23:15 pm » posted from:Uberaba,Minas Gerais,Brazil

Prof Hwang
Error in XML source code,, still now im not sure it because i'm use EJS 4.3.0 or it happen because have wrong in XML
However i close Events in evolution page so EJS console give one error before i close this page ejs console give 8 error.

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symbol : variable initregion
location: class users.br.ahmed.fastestpath_pkg.fastestpath._ODE_evolution1._ODE_evolution1_Event1
if(initregion){ // > Evolution:Evol Page:Event.Zero Condition:2
^
D:\EJS_4.3.0\workspace\output\users\br\ahmed\fastestpath_pkg\fastestpath.java:504: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable xl
location: class users.br.ahmed.fastestpath_pkg.fastestpath._ODE_evolution1._ODE_evolution1_Event1
xl=Math.sqrt((x2-x[id])*(x2-x[id])+y2*y2); // > Evolution:Evol Page:Event.Zero Condition:4
^
D:\EJS_4.3.0\workspace\output\users\br\ahmed\fastestpath_pkg\fastestpath.java:505: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable xl
location: class users.br.ahmed.fastestpath_pkg.fastestpath._ODE_evolution1._ODE_evolution1_Event1
vx[id]=v2*(x2-x[id])/xl; // > Evolution:Evol Page:Event.Zero Condition:5
^
D:\EJS_4.3.0\workspace\output\users\br\ahmed\fastestpath_pkg\fastestpath.java:506: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable xl
location: class users.br.ahmed.fastestpath_pkg.fastestpath._ODE_evolution1._ODE_evolution1_Event1
vy[id]=v2*y2/xl; // > Evolution:Evol Page:Event.Zero Condition:6
^
D:\EJS_4.3.0\workspace\output\users\br\ahmed\fastestpath_pkg\fastestpath.java:530: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable initregion
location: class users.br.ahmed.fastestpath_pkg.fastestpath._ODE_evolution1._ODE_evolution1_Event1
initregion[id]=false; // > Evolution:Evol Page:Event.Action:1
^
D:\EJS_4.3.0\workspace\output\users\br\ahmed\fastestpath_pkg\fastestpath.java:531: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable xl
location: class users.br.ahmed.fastestpath_pkg.fastestpath._ODE_evolution1._ODE_evolution1_Event1
xl=Math.sqrt((x2-x[id])*(x2-x[id])+y2*y2); // > Evolution:Evol Page:Event.Action:2
^
D:\EJS_4.3.0\workspace\output\users\br\ahmed\fastestpath_pkg\fastestpath.java:532: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable xl
location: class users.br.ahmed.fastestpath_pkg.fastestpath._ODE_evolution1._ODE_evolution1_Event1
vx[id]=v2*(x2-x[id])/xl; // > Evolution:Evol Page:Event.Action:3
^
D:\EJS_4.3.0\workspace\output\users\br\ahmed\fastestpath_pkg\fastestpath.java:533: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable xl
location: class users.br.ahmed.fastestpath_pkg.fastestpath._ODE_evolution1._ODE_evolution1_Event1
vy[id]=v2*y2/xl; // > Evolution:Evol Page:Event.Action:4
^
8 errors
Compilation produced an error!


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Reply #5 on: July 21, 2010, 10:28:19 pm » posted from:Taipei,T\'ai-pei,Taiwan

The event page was disabled. You can remove it and it will work fine.
The above jar file has been updated,too!


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Reply #6 on: October 02, 2010, 01:18:23 am » posted from:Bangkok,Krung Thep,Thailand

I'm finding this knowledge for my project work thanks


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