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⚛️ Casimir Force: Vacuum Modes, Metal Correction and MEMS Pull-In (2D)

Two parallel plates, one of them on a spring, with the standing vacuum modes that fit between them drawn against the dense spectrum outside. Choose the rest gap, plate size, spring constant, material and a flat or sphere-on-plate geometry, release the plate and watch it settle at an equilibrium gap or snap shut when the spring is too soft. Plots show the pressure against gap for three materials, spring and Casimir force against displacement, the total energy and the plate motion. Four in-page numerical checks.

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Two parallel plates, one of them on a spring, with the standing vacuum modes that fit between them drawn against the dense spectrum outside. Choose the rest gap, plate size, spring constant, material and a flat or sphere-on-plate geometry, release the plate and watch it settle at an equilibrium gap or snap shut when the spring is too soft. Plots show the pressure against gap for three materials, spring and Casimir force against displacement, the total energy and the plate motion. Four in-page numerical checks.

Casimir effectvacuum fluctuationsMEMS pull-inzero-point energyquantum field theory

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

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