29 Oct
2013
29 Oct
'13
7:06 a.m.
On 2013-10-28 12:00, Mike Stay wrote:
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
In this day & age of real-time photorealistic graphics engines on every laptop computer, it amazes me that there is still no relativistic animation program available to every high school student, so that _every_ student can relatively (!) quickly develop intuition re _special_ relativity, at the very least.
Like this? http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/
One of my kids said that this: http://www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html (Flash game) is probably more educational, and more of a game, although not as pretty.