Hello Joe,
I would check out http://g-24.net/squeak/ode.html . There are some richly developed objects there with wonderful applications to basic physics education.
Eric Eisaman DDESS Guam High School AP Physics Instructor
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Joe Apuzzo japuzzo@gmail.com wrote:
I'm new to the list and have slowly been learning Squeak over the last few weeks. I want to develop lessons for kids starting in 3rd grade up to 5th grade ( thus using eToys as the main interface )
I recently came across Phun ( http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki ) which is a really great Physics simulator. But it's a toy and lacks the rich environment that Squeak has for introducing, planning and accomplishing a "class project".
I know that there is ODECo for Squeak ( http://languagegame.org:8888/ggame/15 ) but
- It only runs at on 3.7
- Only has a few objects to work with
- Does not have settings for friction, density and bounce
- Does not have the concept of liquid and gas
Therefor is there any work on adding objects to eToys that have Physics attributes like those in Phun? If not, is anyone interested?
Yours humbly;
Gnu Joe Joseph Apuzzo www.mhvlug.org
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