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    I may have a computer program that does something, and I am
wondering if any scientists or engineers want one. Here's what it
does: Suppose you had a number of point-sources of some force, and you
wanted to know for a particular distribution of those sources, where
each source had some specified strength, and the force it "emmitted"
could have any character (i.e., it's decay with distance didn't have
to be a square law, but instead could be any arbitrary expression
involving distance). The number, positions, strengths, and force types
of each of the sources would be enterred at run-time. The program
would then produce a plot of the whole plane, where each point was
colored in such a way that the color expressed what the total (sum,
due to all the sources) force on a particle at that point was. This
would allow you to set up an arbitrary distribution of sources, and
see what the force-field looked like.
     Additionally, the program would work in reverse. You could enter 
the force-field shape that you wanted, and the program would find a
distribution of point sources that produced that specified field. So,
is anyone interested? If you have any ideas, comments, or potential
applications (ones I've thought of include gravitational,
electromagnetic, and acoustical models), please email to
mlevin@husc8.harvard.edu.
P.S. sorry if this is inappropriate for some of the groups, but I
didn't know who may be interested.

Mike Levin