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🧭 Gimballed Ship Compass: Roll Isolation and Damped Needle (2D front view)

2D front view of a ship's gimballed compass bowl riding out waves, beside a top view of the damped magnetic needle. Set the sea state, wave period, gimbal damping, heading and magnetic bearing, and watch hull roll, bowl tilt, needle error and the roll-isolation curve. Same equations and constants as the 3D page, with four in-page numerical checks.

Electromagnetism2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🤖 ChatGPT⇄ 3D version
Gimballed Ship Compass: Roll Isolation and Damped Needle (2D front view) ↗ Open standalone
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2D front view of a ship's gimballed compass bowl riding out waves, beside a top view of the damped magnetic needle. Set the sea state, wave period, gimbal damping, heading and magnetic bearing, and watch hull roll, bowl tilt, needle error and the roll-isolation curve. Same equations and constants as the 3D page, with four in-page numerical checks.

gimbalcompassdamped pendulummagnetic needleroll isolation

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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