Re: [sugar] [OLPC-Games] Physics -- Newtonian mechanics.. for kids!

2008-07-14 Thread Brian Jordan
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:58:32 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we could simulate a pendulum or a Newton's cradle? How do you handle collisions?

Re: [sugar] [OLPC-Games] Physics -- Newtonian mechanics.. for kids!

2008-07-12 Thread Brian Jordan
Hi Yoshiki, These are great! I've added them to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Physics_(activity) . Feel free to add more yourself via the upload mechanism: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:Upload ! A priority is XML-format scene saving, so we can share great scenes like yours and those that will be

Re: [sugar] [OLPC-Games] Physics -- Newtonian mechanics.. for kids!

2008-07-12 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Thank you, Brian, Are you now commuting to 1CC? If so, we (all Etoys team including Takashi, who did ODECo ODE binding for Etoys) are visiting Cambridge the week after next, so we may have a chance to talk about it (possibly on Wednesday. -- Yoshiki

Re: [sugar] [OLPC-Games] Physics -- Newtonian mechanics.. for kids!

2008-07-10 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Brian Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi friends! Physics is a physics playground for the XO currently being written by myself and Alex Levenson. We hope it will be a fun tool for playing with and learning physical concepts, and that the work of the

Re: [sugar] [OLPC-Games] Physics -- Newtonian mechanics.. for kids!

2008-07-10 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
So we could simulate a pendulum or a Newton's cradle? How do you handle collisions? A pendulum for sure, but my version of three pendulums putting together doesn't show the expected behavior. The elasticity isn't right for it, it seems. -- Yoshiki