Unity as a Physics Simulator: Calculating Mean Free Path for Hard Disk Gas (CROSBI ID 703526)
Prilog sa skupa u zborniku | izvorni znanstveni rad | međunarodna recenzija
Podaci o odgovornosti
Krstić, Vladimir ; Mekterović, Igor
engleski
Unity as a Physics Simulator: Calculating Mean Free Path for Hard Disk Gas
In a typical physics course for non-physics majors, students analyze and solve problems that are simple and perceived by students as idealized to the extent that they are only remotely related to real-world problems. This perception hurts their motivation to learn fundamental physics. In this work, we show how students can use the Unity Physics Engine as a physics simulator to solve and analyze more complex and exciting physics problems than the standard paper-and-pencil problems. We provide an example of such a problem: calculating the mean free path for hard disk gas. By delegating the hard and tedious work of performing the time evolution of the system of gas particles to the Unity Physics Engine, students can concentrate on acquiring and analyzing data. In this way, students can engage with the physics of complex problems that could motivate them to learn fundamental physics. This approach to teaching physics is interesting in particular for a computer science major because it also helps students develop their programming skills.
Unity game engine ; physics engine ; physics simulation ; mean free path ; hard disk gas
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Podaci o prilogu
613-616.
2021.
objavljeno
10.23919/MIPRO52101.2021.9596893
Podaci o matičnoj publikaciji
2021 44th International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology (MIPRO)
Rijeka: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
978-953-233-101-1
1847-3938
1847-3946
Podaci o skupu
MIPRO 2021
predavanje
27.09.2021-01.10.2021
Opatija, Hrvatska