ucar.visad.quantities

Class MassicVolume

java.lang.Object

ucar.visad.quantities.Quantity

ucar.visad.quantities.ScalarQuantity

ucar.visad.quantities.MassicVolume

public final class MassicVolume
extends ScalarQuantity

Provides support for the quantity of massic volume (alias "specific volume" or "volume per mass").

Version:

$Id: MassicVolume.java,v 1.4 2005/05/13 18:35:41 jeffmc Exp $

Author:

Steven R. Emmerson

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static visad.Data	createFromDensity(visad.Data density) Creates an MassicVolume data object from a density data object.
static visad.RealTupleType	getRealTupleType() Obtains the RealTupleType associated with this class.
static visad.RealType	getRealType() Obtains the RealType associated with this class.

Methods inherited from class ucar.visad.quantities.ScalarQuantity

getRealType, getRealType, realType

Methods inherited from class ucar.visad.quantities.Quantity

realTupleType, setRealTupleType

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getRealType

public static visad.RealType getRealType()
                                  throws visad.VisADException

Obtains the RealType associated with this class.

Returns:

The RealType associated with this class.

Throws:

visad.VisADException - Couldn't perform necessary VisAD operation.

getRealTupleType

public static visad.RealTupleType getRealTupleType()
                                            throws visad.VisADException

Obtains the RealTupleType associated with this class.

Returns:

The RealTupleType associated with this class.

Throws:

visad.VisADException - Couldn't perform necessary VisAD operation.

createFromDensity

public static visad.Data createFromDensity(visad.Data density)
                                    throws visad.TypeException,
                                           visad.VisADException,
                                           java.rmi.RemoteException

Creates an MassicVolume data object from a density data object.

Parameters:

density - A Density data object.

Returns:

The MassicVolume data object computed from the density. The type of the object will be that of the arguments after standard promotion.

Throws:

visad.TypeException - At least one argument has wrong type.

visad.VisADException - Couldn't create necessary VisAD object.

java.rmi.RemoteException - Java RMI failure.

See Also:

VisADMath