A.  This application was written by Matt Frank and Brian Chapman.  It was developed in support of the Integrated First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics at  Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.  This curriculum project is supported by the National Science Foundation, the General Electric Foundation, and Lilly Endowment, Inc.  If you are interested in this or any other application written for the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Integrated First Year Curriculum, please contact us at ifycsem@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu.  The following people are currently serving as professors for the curriculum and would welcome your comments and questions:

Dr. Claude Anderson, III, Computer Science
Campus Box 98
ext. 8331

Dr.  Jerry Fine, Mechanical Engineering
Campus Box 140
ext. 8353

Dr. Jeffrey Froyd, Electrical Engineering
Campus Box 111
ext. 8340

Dr. Mike Moloney, Physics
Campus Box 161
ext. 8302

Dr. Howard McLean, Chemistry
Campus Box 70
ext. 8378

Dr. Edward Mottel, Chemistry
Campus Box 71
ext. 8315

Dr. Brian Winkel, Mathematics
Campus Box 132
ext. 8412

c/o Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
6060 Wabash Avenue
Terre Haute, Indiana, USA  47803

phone 812-877-1511
or
812-877- ext.

B.  ForceField best fits in the mathematics category.

C.  ForceField allows the user to visually see the work done by a force as it travels along a path.  It allows the user to set up different equations for force vectors and different paths that they can travel.  Then, the user can use a slider to change the value of the x-coordinate and visually see the force changing in size and direction as it moves.

D.  ForceField is used as part of the Integrated First Year Curriculum in calculus classes to illustrate the concept of line integrals.

E.  ForceField was developed under NeXTSTEP 2.1.

F.  ForceField requires no special installation.

G.  The Documentation folder included with the application is required for online documentation built into the application.  If it is removed, the application will still function properly, except for Help.