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The Step Handbook
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The Step Handbook

Anne-Marie Mahfouf

Revision 0.0.3 (2007-12-06)
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Step is an interactive physical simulator. It allows you to explore the physical world through simulations. It works like this: you place some bodies on the scene, add some forces such as gravity or springs, then click Simulate and Step shows you how your scene will evolve according to the laws of physics. You can change every property of the bodies/forces in your experiment (even during simulation) and see how this will change evolution of the experiment. With Step you cannot only learn but feel how physics works!


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Using Step
The board
The menubar
3. Getting familiar with Step: the tutorials
Tutorial 1: bodies and springs
Tutorial 2: controllers and graphs
Tutorial 3: rigid bodies and tracers
Tutorial 4: motors and forces
Tutorial 5: joints
4. Step examples
first.step: First example
brownian.step
doublependulum.step
gas.step
5. Command Reference
The File Menu
The Settings Menu
The Help Menu
6. Developer's Guide to Step
7. Credits and License
A. Installation
How to obtain Step
Compilation and Installation
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