GasLab Single Collision 3D
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WHAT IS IT?
This model is a 3D version of the 2D model GasLab Single Collision; it is one in a series of GasLab models. They use the same basic rules for simulating the behavior of gases. Each model integrates different features in order to highlight different aspects of gas behavior.
This model is simplified to show the collision of only two particles, since this event is so hard to watch when there are many particles in the world: given the initial motions of two colliding particles, what can we learn about their final motions from the principles of conservation of momentum and energy?
HOW IT WORKS
The particles are modeled as hard balls with no internal energy except that which is due to their motion. Collisions between particles are elastic. Particles are colored according to speed -- blue for slow, green for medium, and red for high speeds.
Coloring of the particles is with respect to one speed (10). Particles with a speed less than 5 are blue, those that are more than 15 are red, while all in those in-between are green.
Particles behave according to the following rules:
1. A particle moves in a straight line without changing its speed, unless it collides with another particle or bounces off the wall. The particles are aimed to hit each other at the origin.
2. Two particles "collide" if they find themselves on the same patch (the world is composed of a grid of small squares called patches).
3. A random axis is chosen, as if they are two balls that hit each other and this axis is the line connecting their centers.
4. They exchange momentum and energy along that axis, according to the conservation of momentum and energy. This calculation is done in the center of mass system.
5. Each turtle is assigned its new velocity, energy, and heading.
6. If a turtle finds itself on or very close to a wall of the container, it "bounces" -- that is, reflects its direction and keeps its same speed.
HOW TO USE IT
Initial settings:
- COLLISION-ANGLE: Sets the angle that separates the pink and blue particles before the collision.
- REFLECTION-ANGLE: Sets the angle of the axis connecting the particles' centers when they collide with respect to the vertical axis. To calculate the outcome of the collision, the speeds of the two particles are projected onto this new axis and the new speeds and headings are computed. Other GasLab models use random values for "REFLECTION-ANGLE", but this model allows you to experiment with them one by one. This angle is called THETA in the code of the model.
- INIT-PINK-SPEED (or BLUE): Sets the initial speed of the pink (or blue) particle.
- PINK-MASS (or BLUE): Sets the mass of the pink (or blue) particle.
Other settings:
- SHOW-CENTER-OF-MASS?: If ON, the center of mass of the system will be shown in gray.
- WIGGLE?: If ON, the initial particles will be placed in a random location to start.
Buttons for running the model:
- SETUP
- RUN-MODE: Chooses between ONE COLLISION (just one run), ALL-COLLISION-ANGLES (loops through all the collision angles with 15-degrees steps) and ALL-REFLECTION-ANGLES (loops through all the reflection angles with 15-degrees steps).
- GO
Monitors:
- ENERGY OF PINK (or -BLUE): Shows the current energy of the pink (or blue) particle.
- SPEED OF PINK (or -BLUE): Shows the current speed of the pink (or blue) particle.
- AVERAGE SPEED: Shows the average of the speeds of the two particles.
- TOTAL ENERGY: Shows the sum of the energies of the two particles.
Plots:
- SPEEDS: speed of each of the particles over time.
THINGS TO NOTICE
With COLLISION-ANGLE = 180 (directly across from each other) and REFLECTION-ANGLE = 90, it looks as if the two particles miss each other. What is happening?
With REFLECTION-ANGLE = 45 degrees, the particles go off at right angles. Why? Draw a picture of what is happening at the moment of collision.
With REFLECTION-ANGLE = 0 degrees, the two particles reverse direction. Why?
What is the motion of the center of mass? What would you expect it to be?
THINGS TO TRY
Set the reflection-angle to zero. Draw a picture representing the two balls as they collide, with their two faces touching. Make the line connecting their centers be the same as theta. Draw vectors representing their motion.
While running the following situations note the paths of the two particles. Can you make sense of what they do? Is it what you expected?
Choose a COLLISION-ANGLE and a REFLECTION-ANGLE and choose ONE-COLLISION to see one particular collision.
Choose a COLLISION-ANGLE and choose ALL-REFLECTION-ANGLES to cycle through all of the angles of reflection.
Choose a REFLECTION-ANGLE and choose ALL-COLLISION-ANGLES to cycle through all of the angles of collision.
Have the masses of the two particles be different.
Have the initial speeds of the two particles be different.
Change the initial positions and headings of the two particles. As a simple case, set one on the y-axis and the other on the x-axis, (COLLISION-ANGLE = 90) each one heading toward the origin. The center of mass is no longer stationary. Note its path. Is it what you would expect?
If the center of mass is not stationary, the two particles often have different speeds after they collide, even when they have identical initial speeds and masses! Why does this happen? How can this satisfy the conservation of both energy and momentum?
The fact that the velocities are not always the same after every kind of collision is essential to getting a distribution of velocities among identical particles after many collisions, which is what we observe with particles in a gas.
Does this seem like a reasonable model for colliding particles? When is it reasonably valid, and when is it decidedly NOT valid?
When two particles collide, should theta be picked randomly -- each theta has an equal probability -- or in some other way? Would this change the eventual velocity distribution among many particles?
After you have gotten used to observing and understanding these simple collisions, go to the "Free Gas" or "Gas in a Box" model. Especially watch the particle whose path is traced in gray. Does it make sense? Can you picture each collision?
Record the velocities of each particle after each collision. After you have several sets of velocities, look at the entire velocity distribution. What do you notice? Is it the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution?
EXTENDING THE MODEL
NETLOGO FEATURES
Since there are not yet different topologies in NetLogo 3D we have to make sure that the particles don't go over the edge of the world using bounds checking code like in pre-3.1 NetLogo.
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HOW TO CITE
If you mention this model in an academic publication, we ask that you include these citations for the model itself and for the NetLogo software:
- Wilensky, U. (2007). NetLogo GasLab Single Collision 3D model. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/GasLabSingleCollision3D. Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
- Wilensky, U. (1999). NetLogo. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/. Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
In other publications, please use:
- Copyright 2007 Uri Wilensky. All rights reserved. See http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/GasLabSingleCollision3D for terms of use.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Copyright 2007 Uri Wilensky. All rights reserved.
Permission to use, modify or redistribute this model is hereby granted, provided that both of the following requirements are followed:
a) this copyright notice is included.
b) this model will not be redistributed for profit without permission from Uri Wilensky. Contact Uri Wilensky for appropriate licenses for redistribution for profit.
This is a 3D version of the 2D model GasLab Single Collision.
Comments and Questions
globals [ tick-delta ;; how much we advance the tick counter this time through min-tick-delta ;; the smallest tick-delta is allowed to be collision-times ;; a list that of times of pending collisions ;; coordinates of the center of mass x-center y-center z-center ] breed [ centers-of-mass center-of-mass ] breed [ particles particle ] particles-own [ ;; properties specific to particles speed energy mass collision-time ;; time in the future of the next collision collision-with ;; particle to collide with last-collision ;; particle we last collided with so we don't collide with the same particle many times ;; component vectors of the speed and direction of the particle x-vector y-vector z-vector ] to setup clear-all create-particles 1 [ set color pink set speed init-pink-speed setxyz 0 0 0 set heading 0 set pitch 0 bk speed if wiggle? [ wiggle3d 5 ] set mass mass-of-pink set energy 0.5 * mass * speed ^ 2 pen-down set last-collision nobody ] create-particles 1 [ set color blue set speed init-blue-speed setxyz 0 0 0 set heading collision-angle-xy set pitch collision-angle-z bk speed if wiggle? [ wiggle3d 5 ] set mass mass-of-blue set energy 0.5 * mass * speed ^ 2 pen-down set last-collision nobody ] ask particles [ set shape "circle" set size sqrt mass ] let total-mass sum [mass] of particles set x-center ( sum [ xcor * mass ] of particles ) / total-mass set y-center ( sum [ ycor * mass ] of particles ) / total-mass set z-center ( sum [ zcor * mass ] of particles ) / total-mass create-centers-of-mass 1 [ set shape "x" set size 1 set color gray setxyz x-center y-center z-center ifelse show-center-of-mass? [ pen-down ] [ hide-turtle ] ] set tick-delta .01 set min-tick-delta 0 end to go-mode if run-mode = "one-collision" [ go-once ] if run-mode = "all-collision-angles" [ go-all-angles ] if run-mode = "all-collision-pitches" [ go-all-angles-and-pitches ] end to go-once while [ go ] [] end to go-all-angles let angle 15 set wiggle? false repeat 23 [ set collision-angle-xy angle setup while [ go ] [] set angle angle + 15 ] end to go-all-angles-and-pitches let zangle -90 set wiggle? false repeat 11 [ set collision-angle-z zangle setup while [ go ] [ ] set zangle zangle + 15 ] end to-report go set collision-times [] ;; empty this out for new input ask particles [ set collision-time tick-delta set collision-with nobody detect-collisions ] set x-center ( sum [ xcor * mass ] of particles ) / ( sum [mass] of particles ) set y-center ( sum [ ycor * mass ] of particles ) / ( sum [mass] of particles ) set z-center ( sum [ zcor * mass ] of particles ) / ( sum [mass] of particles ) ask centers-of-mass [ ifelse show-center-of-mass? ;; marks a gray path along the particles' center of mass [ show-turtle pen-down ] [ hide-turtle pen-up ] setxyz x-center y-center z-center ] ifelse empty? collision-times [ set collision-times lput tick-delta collision-times ] [ set collision-times sort collision-times ] ifelse first collision-times < tick-delta ;; if something will collide before the tick [ tick-advance first collision-times ;; precheck that all the particles can move before we move any ;; this is so that the center of mass doesn't get slightly ;; off path because one particle moves and the other doesn't if any? particles with [ not can-move-cube? (speed * first collision-times) ] [ report false ] ask particles [ jump speed * first collision-times ] ; most particles to first collision ask particle 0 [ collide particle 1 set last-collision collision-with ask particle 1 [ set last-collision myself ] ] ][ ;; precheck that all the particles can move before we move any ;; this is so that the center of mass doesn't get slightly ;; off path because one particle moves and the other doesn't if any? particles with [ not can-move-cube? (speed * tick-delta) ] [ report false ] ask particles [ jump speed * tick-delta ] tick-advance tick-delta ] ask particles [ if last-collision != nobody [ if distance last-collision > ( ([size] of last-collision / 2) + ( size / 2 ) ) * 1.5 [ set last-collision nobody ] ] ] do-plotting display report true end ;; we don't yet have different topologies in 3D so we have ;; to prevent the particles from wrapping around the world ;; manually (just like in pre-3.1 NetLogo). We don't want the ;; particles to wrap around the world because it is confusing ;; when the center-of-mass is turned on. to-report can-move-cube? [dist] let x xcor + (dx * dist) let y ycor + (dy * dist) let z zcor + (dz * dist) report not (x < min-pxcor + 0.5 or x > max-pxcor - 0.5 or y < min-pycor + 0.5 or y > max-pxcor - 0.5 or z < min-pzcor + 0.5 or z > max-pzcor - 0.5) end ;;; ;;; distance and collision procedures ;;; to detect-collisions ; particle procedure ;; detect-collisions is a particle procedure that determines the time it takes to the collision between ;; two particles (if one exists). It solves for the time by representing the equations of motion for ;; distance, velocity, and time in a quadratic equation of the vector components of the relative velocities ;; and changes in position between the two particles and solves for the time until the next collision let my-x xcor let my-y ycor let my-z zcor let my-x-speed (x-velocity heading pitch speed ) let my-y-speed (y-velocity heading pitch speed ) let my-z-speed (z-velocity pitch speed ) ask other particles with [self != [last-collision] of myself] [ let dpx 0 let dpy 0 let dpz 0 ;; since our world is wrapped, we can't just use calcs like xcor - my-x. Instead, we take the smallest ;; of either the wrapped or unwrapped distance for each dimension ifelse ( abs ( xcor - my-x ) <= abs ( ( xcor - my-x ) - world-width ) ) [ set dpx (xcor - my-x) ] [ set dpx (xcor - my-x) - world-width ] ;; relative distance between particles in the x direction ifelse ( abs ( ycor - my-y ) <= abs ( ( ycor - my-y ) - world-height ) ) [ set dpy (ycor - my-y) ] [ set dpy (ycor - my-y) - world-height ] ;; relative distance between particles in the y direction ifelse ( abs ( zcor - my-z ) <= abs ( ( zcor - my-z ) - world-depth ) ) [ set dpz (zcor - my-z) ] [ set dpz (zcor - my-z) - world-depth ] ;; relative distance between particles in the z direction let x-speed x-velocity heading pitch speed ;; speed of other particle in the x direction let y-speed y-velocity heading pitch speed ;; speed of other particle in the y direction let z-speed z-velocity pitch speed ;; speed of other particle in the z direction let dvx x-speed - my-x-speed ;; relative speed difference between particles in the x direction let dvy y-speed - my-y-speed ;; relative speed difference between particles in the y direction let dvz z-speed - my-z-speed ;; relative speed difference between particles in the z direction let sum-r ([size] of myself / 2 ) + (size / 2) ;; sum of both particle radii ;; To figure out what the difference in position (P1) between two particles at a future time (t) would be, ;; one would need to know the current difference in position (P0) between the two particles ;; and the current difference in the velocity (V0) between of the two particles. ;; The equation that represents the relationship would be: P1 = P0 + t * V0 ;; we want find when in time (t), P1 would be equal to the sum of both the particle's radii (sum-r). ;; When P1 is equal to is equal to sum-r, the particles will just be touching each other at ;; their edges (a single point of contact). ;; Therefore we are looking for when: sum-r = P0 + t * V0 ;; This equation is not a simple linear equation, since P0 and V0 should both have x and y components ;; in their two dimensional vector representation (calculated as dpx, dpy, and dvx, dvy). ;; By squaring both sides of the equation, we get: (sum-r) * (sum-r) = (P0 + t * V0) * (P0 + t * V0) ;; When expanded gives: (sum-r ^ 2) = (P0 ^ 2) + (t * PO * V0) + (t * PO * V0) + (t ^ 2 * VO ^ 2) ;; Which can be simplified to: 0 = (P0 ^ 2) - (sum-r ^ 2) + (2 * PO * V0) * t + (VO ^ 2) * t ^ 2 ;; Below, we will let p-squared represent: (P0 ^ 2) - (sum-r ^ 2) ;; and pv represent: (2 * PO * V0) ;; and v-squared represent: (VO ^ 2) ;; then the equation will simplify to: 0 = p-squared + pv * t + v-squared * t^2 let p-squared ((dpx * dpx) + (dpy * dpy) + (dpz * dpz)) - (sum-r ^ 2) ;; p-squared represents difference of the ;; square of the radii and the square ;; of the initial positions let pv (2 * ((dpx * dvx) + (dpy * dvy) + (dpz * dvz))) ;;the vector product of the position times the velocity let v-squared ((dvx * dvx) + (dvy * dvy) + (dvz * dvz)) ;; the square of the difference in speeds ;; represented as the sum of the squares of the x-component ;; and y-component of relative speeds between the two particles ;; p-squared, pv, and v-squared are coefficients in the quadratic equation shown above that ;; represents how distance between the particles and relative velocity are related to the time, ;; t, at which they will next collide (or when their edges will just be touching) ;; Any quadratic equation that is the function of time (t), can represented in a general form as: ;; a*t*t + b*t + c = 0, ;; where a, b, and c are the coefficients of the three different terms, and has solutions for t ;; that can be found by using the quadratic formula. The quadratic formula states that if a is not 0, ;; then there are two solutions for t, either real or complex. ;; t is equal to (b +/- sqrt (b^2 - 4*a*c)) / 2*a ;; the portion of this equation that is under a square root is referred to here ;; as the determinant, D1. D1 is equal to (b^2 - 4*a*c) ;; and: a = v-squared, b = pv, and c = p-squared. let D1 pv ^ 2 - (4 * v-squared * p-squared) ;; the next line next line tells us that a collision will happen in the future if ;; the determinant, D1 is >= 0, since a positive determinant tells us that there is a ;; real solution for the quadratic equation. Quadratic equations can have solutions ;; that are not real (they are square roots of negative numbers). These are referred ;; to as imaginary numbers and for many real world systems that the equations represent ;; are not real world states the system can actually end up in. ;; Once we determine that a real solution exists, we want to take only one of the two ;; possible solutions to the quadratic equation, namely the smaller of the two the solutions: ;; (b - sqrt (b^2 - 4*a*c)) / 2*a ;; which is a solution that represents when the particles first touching on their edges. ;; instead of (b + sqrt (b^2 - 4*a*c)) / 2*a ;; which is a solution that represents a time after the particles have penetrated ;; and are coming back out of each other and when they are just touching on their edges. let time-to-collision -1 if D1 >= 0 [ set time-to-collision (- pv - sqrt D1) / (2 * v-squared) ] ;;solution for time step ;; if time-to-collision is still -1 there is no collision in the future - no valid solution ;; note: negative values for time-to-collision represent where particles would collide ;; if allowed to move backward in time. ;; if time-to-collision is greater than 1, then we continue to advance the motion ;; of the particles along their current trajectories. They do not collide yet. ;; to keep the model from slowing down too much, if the particles are going to collide ;; at a time before min-tick-delta, just collide them a min-tick-delta instead if time-to-collision < tick-delta and time-to-collision > 0 [ set collision-with myself set collision-time time-to-collision set collision-times lput time-to-collision collision-times ] ] end to collide [ particle2 ] ;; turtle procedure update-component-vectors ask particle2 [ update-component-vectors ] ;; find heading and pitch from the center of particle1 to the center of particle2 let theading towards particle2 let tpitch towards-pitch particle2 ;; use these to determine the x, y, z components of theta let tx x-velocity theading tpitch 1 let ty y-velocity theading tpitch 1 let tz z-velocity tpitch 1 ;; find the speed of particle1 in the direction of n let particle1-to-theta orth-projection x-vector y-vector z-vector tx ty tz ;; express particle1's movement along theta in terms of xyz let x1-to-theta particle1-to-theta * tx let y1-to-theta particle1-to-theta * ty let z1-to-theta particle1-to-theta * tz ;; now we can find the x, y and z components of the particle's velocity that ;; aren't in the direction of theta by subtracting the x, y, and z ;; components of the velocity in the direction of theta from the components ;; of the overall velocity of the particle let x1-opp-theta ( ( x-vector ) - ( x1-to-theta ) ) let y1-opp-theta ( ( y-vector ) - ( y1-to-theta ) ) let z1-opp-theta ( ( z-vector ) - ( z1-to-theta ) ) ;; do the same for particle2 let particle2-to-theta orth-projection [x-vector] of particle2 [y-vector] of particle2 [z-vector] of particle2 tx ty tz let x2-to-theta particle2-to-theta * tx let y2-to-theta particle2-to-theta * ty let z2-to-theta particle2-to-theta * tz let x2-opp-theta ( ( [x-vector] of particle2 ) - ( x2-to-theta ) ) let y2-opp-theta ( ( [y-vector] of particle2 ) - ( y2-to-theta ) ) let z2-opp-theta ( ( [z-vector] of particle2 ) - ( z2-to-theta ) ) ;; calculate the velocity of the center of mass along theta let vcm ( ( ( mass * particle1-to-theta ) + ( [mass] of particle2 * particle2-to-theta ) ) / ( mass + [mass] of particle2 ) ) ;; switch momentums along theta set particle1-to-theta (2 * vcm - particle1-to-theta) set particle2-to-theta (2 * vcm - particle2-to-theta) ;; determine the x, y, z components of each particle's new velocities ;; in the direction of theta set x1-to-theta particle1-to-theta * tx set y1-to-theta particle1-to-theta * ty set z1-to-theta particle1-to-theta * tz set x2-to-theta particle2-to-theta * tx set y2-to-theta particle2-to-theta * ty set z2-to-theta particle2-to-theta * tz ;; now, we add the new velocities along theta to the unchanged velocities ;; opposite theta to determine the new heading, pitch, and speed of each particle set x-vector x1-to-theta + x1-opp-theta set y-vector y1-to-theta + y1-opp-theta set z-vector z1-to-theta + z1-opp-theta set heading vheading x-vector y-vector z-vector set pitch vpitch x-vector y-vector z-vector set speed vspeed x-vector y-vector z-vector set energy ( 0.5 * mass * speed ^ 2 ) set shape "circle 2" stamp set shape "circle" ask particle2 [ set x-vector x2-to-theta + x2-opp-theta set y-vector y2-to-theta + y2-opp-theta set z-vector z2-to-theta + z2-opp-theta set heading vheading x-vector y-vector z-vector set pitch vpitch x-vector y-vector z-vector set speed vspeed x-vector y-vector z-vector set energy ( 0.5 * mass * speed ^ 2 ) set shape "circle 2" stamp set shape "circle" ] end ;;; ;;; math procedures ;;; ;; makes sure that the values stored in vx, vy, vz actually reflect ;; the appropriate heading, pitch, speed to update-component-vectors ;; particle procedure set x-vector speed * sin heading * cos pitch set y-vector speed * cos heading * cos pitch set z-vector speed * sin pitch end ;; reports velocity of a vector at a given angle and pitch ;; in the direction of x. to-report x-velocity [ vector-angle vector-pitch vector-speed ] report sin vector-angle * abs( cos vector-pitch ) * vector-speed end ;; reports velocity of a vector at a given angle and pitch ;; in the direction of y. to-report y-velocity [ vector-angle vector-pitch vector-speed ] report cos vector-angle * abs( cos vector-pitch ) * vector-speed end ;; reports velocity of a vector at a given angle and pitch ;; in the direction of z. to-report z-velocity [ vector-pitch vector-speed ] report sin vector-pitch * vector-speed end ;; reports speed of a vector given xyz coords to-report vspeed [ x y z ] report sqrt( x ^ 2 + y ^ 2 + z ^ 2 ) end ;; reports xt heading of a vector given xyz coords to-report vheading [ x y z ] report atan x y end ;; reports pitch of a vector given xyz coords to-report vpitch [ x y z ] report round asin ( z / ( vspeed x y z ) ) end ;; called by orthprojection to-report dot-product [ x1 y1 z1 x2 y2 z2 ] report ( ( x1 * x2 ) + ( y1 * y2 ) + ( z1 * z2 ) ) end ;; component of 1 in the direction of 2 (Note order) to-report orth-projection [ x1 y1 z1 x2 y2 z2 ] let dproduct dot-product x1 y1 z1 x2 y2 z2 let speed-of-2 ( vspeed x2 y2 z2 ) ;; if speed is 0 then there's no projection anyway ifelse speed-of-2 > 0 [ report ( dproduct / speed-of-2 ) ] [ report 0 ] end ;; wiggle up to angle in random direction to wiggle3d [ angle ] roll-right random-float 360 tilt-up acos (1 - random-float ( 1 - cos angle ) ) end ;;; plotting procedure to do-plotting set-current-plot "Speeds" ifelse [speed] of turtle 0 = [speed] of turtle 1 [ set-current-plot-pen "both" plotxy ticks [speed] of turtle 0 ] [ set-current-plot-pen "pink" plotxy ticks [speed] of turtle 0 set-current-plot-pen "blue" plotxy ticks [speed] of turtle 1 ] end ; 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