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- From: mlevin@husc8.harvard.edu (Michael Levin)
- Newsgroups: sci.engr,sci.physics
- Subject: Do scientists or engineers need this sort of program? (force lines)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.172004.17579@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:20:02 GMT
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- Organization: Harvard University Science Center
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- I am wondering if scientists or engineers have any need for the
- following computer program. Suppose you wanted to figure out what
- distribution of point sources of some force (electric, magnetic,
- whatever) produce a field of a particular geometry. You would draw the
- field configuration that you wanted, give it to the program, and the
- program would tell you where (and how strong) the point sources needed
- to be in order to produce a field of that shape. This would work for
- any force type, not just the square-of-distance type of gravity and
- electromagnetic - you could enter the description of the force's
- activity with distance, so the program would be general in that sense.
- So, do engineers or physicists ever do this sort of thing? Would there
- be any use for such a program? Please reply to
- mlevin@husc8.harvard.edu.
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- Mike Levin
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