Hello, Jeyden. I just downloaded and ran your program, which gave me two pictures, one of which seemed to show a graph of a pendulum, swinging from its initial position to the left, then to the right, then to the left, ..;, along with a chart that shows a sinusoidal oscillation of "something".
Interesting that both the Chart and the Graph have the X axis labeled as "Time", and the Y axis labeled as "Amplitude", which is definitely not the case (the Graph, for example, doesn't explicitly show Time, but rather seems to show a "movie" of the Pendulum, its "anchor", and the connection between the bottom and top of the Pendulum, i.e. Anchor + wire + "Weight at end of wire".
Has anyone discussed the Three Rules of Data Flow (programming)? If nothing happens when you run your program, ask yourself what should happen the first time the program runs its first loop.
Here's something you should try --
- Go to the Block Diagram.
- Click on the Light Bulb on the top bar. This turns on "Highlight Execution".
- Click the Run Arrow (the first icon on the top bar -- sorry, I don't remember the proper name, so I'm calling it "top bar").
- Your program should start running, and you should see values moving along the wire. Are they mostly 0? If so, why? Remember the Three Laws of Data Flow.
Bob Schor
