Physics (activity)

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Physics

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Physics is a physical world simulator and playground -- 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!).

We also plan to add forces such as:

  • Magnetism
  • Motors
  • Springs

Shape Drawing

Now Implimented (mostly)!

PhysicsTriangleDraw.png PhysicsSquareDrawing.png PhysicsCircleDrawing.png

Some discussion is required here... most shapes can't be defined simply by a single line. Any shape with fixed (relative) dimensions can, but that's not always what you want.

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

Photographs

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

Physics-1.JPG Physics-2.jpg Physics-3.jpg PhysicsNew1.png PhysicsNew2.png PhysicsNew3.png