Physics Simulators to Help Learn Physics

A set of physics simulators, one for each approximate unit of physics: mechanics, universal gravitation, electronics and magnetism, and waves

This repo is now outdated, see https://github.com/mkhan45/SIMple-Physics instead

physics-engine

Rigidbody mechanics simulator, currently simultaneous collisions are pretty jittery

https://github.com/mkhan45/physics-engine

gravity-sim-v2

Universal gravitation simulator using Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation

https://github.com/mkhan45/gravity-sim-v2

Requirements

Running:

I've put binaries for Windows and Linux in the release section of each repository and this one, eventually there will be a web version

Building:

rustup - Latest stable rust toolchain

Computer

With the latest stable rust toolchain from rustup, run cargo run --release to compile and run; compiling will probably take >10 minutes the first time because of all the dependencies. Using sccache will speed up compile times significantly if you compile both as you won't have to recompile most dependencies.

Screenshots/GIFs:

Rigidbody mechanics sim

Universal Gravitation