[OLPC-Games] Physics -- Newtonian mechanics.. for kids!

[Samuel Klein]

Brian, that was a great meeting; thanks for setting it up.

I put some quick meeting notes here:
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Physics_meetings/July_10%2C_2008

And I wonder if there are existing physics-tool development lists worth
pinging for a future meeting.  They could provide their own speed and
compatibility tests... and I'd like to hear what people like the linerider
devs think about XO variants.  (that's much less than full mechanics, but it
does rely on a gravity engine and touch on what's a good extensible
interchange format for scene design)

Cheers,
SJ

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org> wrote:
> >> So we could simulate a pendulum or a Newton's cradle? How do you
> >> handle collisions?
> >
> >  A pendulum for sure, but my version of three pendulums putting
> > together doesn't show the expected behavior.  The elasticity isn't
> > right for it, it seems.
>
> What does it do? Can you get it to tell you what values of momentum
> and energy are passed through from balls 1-->2-->3?
>
> I once used a 5-ball Newton's cradle to do a rough simulation of
> particle-mediated forces.
>
> Have you tried two pendula hanging from a horizontal string? Do you
> get the expected transfer of energy back and forth?
>
> > -- Yoshiki
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