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

[Chris Leonard]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org> wrote:

> At Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:18:35 -0700 (PDT),
> Alan Kay wrote:
> >
> > Or, you could even try having multiple display screens side by side on
> the same computer (we used to call them
> > "windows") ...
>
>  I'm just wrapping up the extension to the Etoys' sensor input
> capability to support the direct input mode.
>
>  So, another alternative is to have two Etoys objects in the same
> Etoys project, and have one driven by the simulation and another by
> the sensor input side by side.


One wants to be careful not to take this too far, throwing one XO emitting a
pure tone at high speed past another XO displaying the waveform should
definitely NOT make it into the lesson plan on the Doppler effect.  Very
educational, but tough on the hardware.

I recommend a whistle blown by someone sitting on the playpump
merry-go-round ( http://www.playpumps.org ) instead, that way you get clean
water pumped at the same time.

cjl
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