Simulations

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Simulations

• Advantages
• Inexpensive
• Provides safety
• Flexibility, ease of change
• Permits the impossible to be studied

2
Simulations

• Disadvantages
• Validity questions

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Classification of Simulations

• Concrete versus abstract
• Static versus dynamic

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Types of Simulations

• Retouched photographs
• Drawings, paintings
• Computer graphics
• Specialized equipment (flight, driving
  simulators, wind tunnels, Berkely landscape
  simulator)