> - provide teachers and professors with online remote tools to do their lessons
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> - give students the opportunity to study real life examples in their chosen area of expertise
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> - allow developers to fully test and debug their applications and provide POC’s
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> - or you simply want to use a Application (in a microservices-based architecture)
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> Swarmlab provides you with all the required tools, tools to teach work or try out demos in a completely virtual environment.
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> More info: http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/swarmlab/docs/swarmlab/docs/index.html
## LabInstance physics
Step is an interactive physics simulator. 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 bodies/forces in your experiment (even during simulation) and see how this will change the outcome of the experiment. With Step you can not only learn but feel how physics works !
Features
* Classical mechanical simulation in two dimensions
* Particles, springs with damping, gravitational and coulomb forces
* Rigid bodies
* Collision detection (currently only discrete) and handling
* Molecular dynamics (currently using Lennard-Jones potential): gas and liquid, condensation and evaporation, calculation of macroscopic quantities and their variances
* Units conversion and expression calculation: you can enter something like "(2 days + 3 hours) * 80 km/h" and it will be accepted as distance value (requires libqalculate)
* Errors calculation and propagation: you can enter values like "1.3 ± 0.2" for any property and errors for all dependent properties will be calculated using statistical formulas
* Solver error estimation: errors introduced by the solver is calculated and added to user-entered errors
* Several different solvers: up to 8th order, explicit and implicit, with or without adaptive timestep (most of the solvers require GSL library)
* Controller tool to easily control properties during simulation (even with custom keyboard shortcuts)
* Tools to visualize results: graph, meter, tracer
* Context information for all objects, integrated wikipedia browser
* Collection of example experiments, more can be downloaded with KNewStuff2
## Quickstart
This is a quickstart guide of howto use this *LabInstance*
### HowTo use it
### Default Configuration
- Working Directory
> /home/docker/project
- Default user
> docker
- Default password
> docker
- Default password4root
> pass
### RUN INSTANCE
Swarmlab services can be run in different ways.
- You can run them **through the swarmlab hybrid environment** (http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/swarmlab/docs/swarmlab/docs/hybrid/start-microservices.html)
- or use them individually at will on the **command line of your system**
