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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
   What Trick is, it's goal, the objective of the tutorial, and how to get and install Trick.

2. A Simple (non-Trick) Simulation
   Description of a simple cannon ball simulation problem that is used through out this tutorial. Also a non-trick solution to the problem and a discussion of it's limitations.

3. Architecture of a Trick Simulation
   How the parts of a Trick simulation are organized and assembled.

4. Building & Running a Trick-based Cannonball Simulation
   In this section, we write, build, and execute a Trick-based cannon ball simulation.

5. Recording Simulation Data
   How to record data from our Trick-based cannon ball simulation.

6. Plotting Recorded Data
   How to plot our recorded cannon ball data.

7. Running Real-time
   How to synchronize simulation time to real-time, that is, "wall clock time".

8. Viewing Real-time Data With Trick View
   Viewing simulation data while the simulation is running.

9. State Propagation with Numerical Integration
   How to use numeric integration in a Trick simulation to find the next state.

10. Dynamic Events - Making Contact
    When interesting things happen between simulation times steps.

11. Trick Variable Server
    How to interact with a running simulation.

12. Monte Carlo
    How to enable and use Monte Carlo functionality in your simulation.

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