Physics game Definition and 26 Threads

Inspired by Atari's arcade game "Lunar lander", I wrote a game for my Physics students to help them understand the Gravitation and Satellite Motion chapter. Although anyone can quickly learn to play the game, the advantage will go to those that develop an intuitive feel for orbital motion and...

As you can see, children of this generation really misuse a games purpose. When, you can study things, and find out the comparisons of the physics to the "law of physics". You see, you can find the gravitational acceleration in just a building game. I'll speak more later

I was numerically solving the wave equation earlier just to produce a simple illustration of a vibrating string and my computer was working pretty hard. Then I realized how many video games nowadays have such awesome graphics with things like water, waves, motion in general, etc... Are these...

I have currently completed the requirements for my Physics BSc major and have completed a math minor and only have two classes left to complete my CS minor. This late in the game I have been doing a lot of thinking and have decided that graduate school in physics seems like the wrong path for...

Now I've played this awesome game recently, called Halo: Combat Evolved ( I'm sure a lot of people have played it already). It's based on intergalactic warfare. A lot of adventures of Master Chief (the main guy) happen to be around on this ring shaped planet-sized thing called the Halo. And...

Hi! I am Giulia, and I hope the following message is of interest to some given the topic.* I have just co-authored a book: "Friendly F#, fun with game programming and XNA". The book aims at teaching the F# language through a series of samples that are fully centered on physics simulations...

Are there any common movie physics mistakes that you wish would be changed into something more realistic?

Late to the game -- do I have a shot at a physics PhD? Hello! I've decided that I want to switch careers and work toward a physics PhD (ultimately more interested in research than teaching). Here's my situation: I studied electrical engineering at an ivy league school with a 3.75 GPA. Got...

Hi, I'm an indie game developer working on a free online puzzle/simulation game set in space. The object of the game is to move, resize, push, pull and otherwise manipulate celestial bodies to solve problems, like putting a planet in a stable orbit or accelerating a satellite to near...

(wasn't sure where to post this) Hey guys :) Are there any physics/mechanics computer games (i.e. for the PC). A friend of mine has shown me a game where you build bridges with trusses and ropes and a train passes through it. If the bridge isn't well-constructed, it'll break! That game is...

The concept of the game: You are presented with the titles of two papers. One paper is a real one posted at the arXiv. The other is fake, with the title automatically generated using a context-free grammar. Your job: Guess which is the real paper. After guessing you will be presented with...

Can I use a computational maths/physics degree to work in the video game industry?

I am currently programming a 2-dimensional game and am creating a class that will allow for collision detection with any polygon defined by a set of points. The actual collision detection was easy, however i am having trouble coming up with an equation to describe the resulting velocity vector...

I am currently in 9th grade and am a programmer, however trigonometry is next year... You could probably consider the engine of Asteroids "basic physics", so will post it here... Sorry if this is in the wrong section. I am creating the classic arcade game Asteroids with XNA Game Studio by...

Hello. I'm entering to a software competition and I need to create an educative game, so I want to make it with physics. Anyone have an idea, suggestion or anything on what kind of game I could make. Thanks in advance P.S: I'm in 11th and the game is made with Visual Basic

I own a Sony PSP, and am curious as to how it works on a quantum level, from knowing what part the electrons in the circuit board work to what part the photons play in me being able to see what's displayed on the screen.

I am just playing around with physics simulation in c++... and my latest obsession is simulating rigid body motion (specifically rotation) with no external torque, for now. The equations of motion in question are the 'Euler equations' which relate the angular acceleration (omega-dot) around any...

Does anyone know of any good online physics games or simulations?

Hello all physicists/engineers! I am currently in my last year of college and will be leaving to go to university next year (in the U.K). I am having real trouble deciding whcih course I want to take, so just to be on the safe side I have decided to take physics, just plain physics (maybe...

Hi, I am writting a book about programming game physics engines, much along the lines of "Game Physics Engine Development" by Ian Millington, however the focus of the book is Networked physics engines. At the current time I have not been able to find a great deal of literature on...

Hi I was wondering which of the following titles I should buy with regards to building a fairly simple physics engine for a game idea I have. I don't want to rush in I want to spend my money wisely. The titles are (roughly) as follows: Real Time Collision Detection Game Physics Game Physics...

Tri-Achnid, an Adobe flash physics-based game http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tri-achnid&btnG=Google+Search I just think that this is the best piece of media I have seen in a very long time. It is hard to maneuver your tri-achnid at first but it is cocaine once you get the hang of it...

A Q&A game is simple: One person asks a relevant question (it can be research, calculation, off-the-top-of-the-head, anything as long as it is a physics question) and other people try to answer. The person who posts the first correct answer (as recognized by s/he who asked the question) gets to...

Lots of students are wondering about the possibilities of being a physicist in professional life. I have posted an entry on this in my journal ('what is a physicist'). On the following page : https://www.physicsforums.com/journal.php?s=&journalid=13790&action=view I have written a...

I've dumped video games for physics... and chemistry and calculus. Basically I'm concentrating on school and surprisingly having fun with this stuff. Especially Physics. Isn't that cool? :smile:

Just like the Astronomy Q&A game in the Astronomy forum, let's play a physics Q&A game here. The astronomy game has certainly taught me some very neat facts -- maybe this one will do the same. I'm going to post one question posed by marcus: "A favorite version of the question chroot just...