Manual
Buttons
- Reset: Sets the values of the parameters to those shown in the boxes and reinitializes the plot (e.g. resets the initial value to X0). If you change a text entry, you must hit Enter or Return on the keyboard, or Reset within the applet for the change to take effect.
- Clear: Clears the plot, but does not reset the parameter values and maintains the current value of X. Clear simply erases the plot but continues the same run.
- Start: Starts repeated time-stepping and plotting. Clear can be used while the evolution is proceeding if the display becomes scrambled.
- Stop: Stops the evolution and allows the parameters to be changed.
- << >>: Decrements/increments the selected component value by the amount specified in the box below.
Text Boxes
Note that the parameter values are not updated until either Enter is hit on the keyboard or the Reset button is pushed.
- R, Ga, Gb, C1, C2, L, R0: Component values. Resistances in kohm, conductances in mS,capacitances in nF, inductances in mH .
- X0, Y0, Z0: Initial values of the variables.
- dt: Time step for integrating equations.
- tran: Sets the number of dt time steps over which transients are eliminated and a phantom plot (Ghost) is drawn.
- Show Ghost: switches whether to show a pre-image of the trajectory.
- Allow sleep: allows the applet to sleep after each iteration to allow the screen updates to catch up. Applet may crash if set to "No", depending on the Java implementation: if not, the program will run faster.
- Show Time: switches continuous update of time of iterations. Some Java implementations have an annoying screen flash if set to "Yes".
Scrollbar
- Speed: sets the iteration and animation speed, roughly in updates per second. There are bugs in some implementations of Java if speed is set too high.
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