What are some ideas for simulating Newton's cradle with C# and XNA?

[aidooon]

hello everybody. .
i am a college student. . and this year we are to write a program to simulate a physical phenomenon. . i chose Newton's cradle. .
so please if anyone has any precious info about this topic, or if anyone wants to suggest another topic for me to work on. . write it here. .
i know nothing about simulation. . they want us to learn that by ourselves. .
i want to work with C# and make graphics with XNA. .
i want any ideas. . any info. . anything beneficial for this issue. .
thanx a lot ppl. .

 

[rcgldr]

The main issue will be how you want to simulate the near elastic collisions and compression of the balls.

One of several threads about this:

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=357358