Free Educational & Science Software for Mac

Orbit3d simulates the motion of bodies in space, in three dimensions, using Newton's laws. Editing tools are included to build and simulate your own solar systems and several example systems are included.Requirements:Mac OS...

pearCalc is a freeware calculator, application-launcher and text replacement tool that uses incredibly little space on your screen. As calculator it provides a broad range of operations (i.e. +,-,*,/,sin, cos, tan, log, %, mod, ^, sqrt ...). Of course it...

Freeware utility program to convert between engineering units.Requirements:Mac OS X 10.1 or...

Ever wish there were 10 hours on a clock instead of 12?Ever wish there were 100 seconds in a minute?Ever wish there were 100 minutes in an hour?Well if so, here's the program for you, tell all your friends to get with the "times" and start using metric...

It's a fractal program! It's an interactive toy! Play with it, draw fractal tree silhouettes, and maybe even find something useful to do with it! Otherwise, please just have fun! Features include multiple colours and gradients live asynchronous,...

Two simple shell scripts for starting the Seti and Folding command line clients with some instructions on configuring them.Requirements:Mac OS X 10.0 or...

Our Neighbours is an application that charts the locations of the 70 nearest stars to the sun. By dragging on the chart you can rotate it in any direction, which gives you a strong feel for the locations of our Sun's neighbours.Requirements:Mac OS...

Stacniac is a slightly odd RPN calculator that doesn't have buttons: you enter numbers and then type in commands. Apparently, most people prefer algebraic calculators and like to click on buttons, so I don't think Stacniac will have wide appeal; however,...

From the developer: "Middle school practice for interpreting line graphs and using functions. Students set the initial level; time delay; and flow rate of an on-screen water tank so that it's water level over time matches that shown on an adjacent line...

EarthGlobe is a real-time, OpenGL rendered globe. Designed as a sister application to MoonDock - it provides a lightweight view of the Earth day-light/seasonal cycles and takes up few system resources so it can be left running on your desktop. This is a...