SimuLab 1: "Walking" Along a Coastline

You need the Coastline program to complete this SimuLab. You can download it to your computer or use it online in a Java applet.

Download Coastline:

Java
Mac OS 7.x
Windows 95/98/NT/2000

Now we use a computer program to draw the model of a coastline and to measure the dimension of that model using the "ruler method'' (see Figure ).

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Figure 2.5: Screen display in the Coastline program.

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