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Art, Writing, and Learning: The Clerisy Quarter => History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library => Topic started by: Glaurung on December 24, 2015, 01:38:25 PM

Title: Physics simulations / games
Post by: Glaurung on December 24, 2015, 01:38:25 PM
Here are a couple of things that might be interesting for a little quiet time over the holiday period:

1. A golf game (http://www.spaceweathercenter.org/interactives/mmg.html) where you have to shoot a charged "ball" through a combination of electric and magnetic fields, aiming at a "hole". Once the magnetic fields are on, it's excitingly non-intuituive. NB. requires Flash.

2. A simulation (https://in-the-sky.org/physics/balls.php) of gas particles in motion under gravity. You can adjust their sizes and masses, and the system temperature, and then watch how the move, and their height and speed distributions.