Physics (activity)

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Physics

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Physics is a physical world simulator -- you can add squares, circles, triangles, or draw your own shapes, and see them come to life with forces (think gravity, Newton!), friction (scrrrrape), and inertia (ahh, slow down!).

Shape Drawing

Now Implimented (mostly)!

PhysicsTriangleDraw.png PhysicsSquareDrawing.png PhysicsCircleDrawing.png

Get Physics!

Click this link in browse: Physics-0.1.xo

OR

sudo yum install git
cd ~/Activities/
git clone git://dev.laptop.org/activities/physics

and to get the new and improved version:

cd physics
git checkout -b Alex origin/Alex

Photographs

Thanks to the Elements team and Alex Levenson for portions of this example code!

Physics-1.JPG Physics-2.jpg Physics-3.jpg [[Image:PhysicsNew1.png|320px] [[Image:PhysicsNew2.png|320px] [[Image:PhysicsNew3.png|320px]