Tag Archives: physics

Gravitation

One weekend, about a month ago, I threw together a quick simulation of the solar system because I was studying gravitation in school. Since I have some time now I went back and polished it to allow user interaction and remove various glitches. It’s still quite crude, but I’m done dealing with it, so I [...]

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Playing with Physics

This weekend, as a side project, I did some modeling of physics concepts I’ve been studying in class. Specifically, conservation of momentum of a system, how the motion of particles can be summed into macroscopic bodies, how forces move through solids in waves, and how quantity of matter (mass) has an impact on acceleration. This [...]

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