Atmospheric reentry simulation in Javascript

The following is the altitude of a reentry vehicle, on its decent through the atmosphere.
What makes this interesting is the way of execution: notice the browser window? The entire simulation is running in javascript, using my javascript classes jVector and jMatrix. The plot is done in jPlot2D (pre-release), utilizing RaphaelJS.

The mathematics comes from this source.

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