From: d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk (David Vrabel)
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Subject: Re: Orbiting Spheres?
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 06:59:59 GMT
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"Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net> wrote:

>Hi. Remember the game Thrust which appeared on virtually every machine that
>existed about ten years back? It had a "rotate & thrust" style ship which
>had to pick up a ball, which then acted on it and *usually* flung your ship
>into the nearest wall.
>
>I can get the physics of the ball right and the physics of the ship right,
>but I can't get them to work together in a realistic way.
>
>Any ideas?
Use conservation of linear momemtum (and angular is the ship and ball
are not modelled as particles).  Any elementary physics textbook will
explain the principles.

David.


David Vrabel  d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk
A poor student (aren't they all) at:
North Shropshire College
Oswestry, Shropshire, UK