Here’s another egregious bump for my poor, unpopular competition thread:
Almost anybody who knows classical mechanics (ie: conservation of momentum and energy) at some point comments that the behavior of frictionless, perfectly elastic collection of bodies is completely deterministic, and can be calculated without much difficulty using paper and pencil. Here’s your chance to prove it!
A hint: if the completely deterministic paper and pencil (or computer equivalent) approach seems like too much work, try just submitting a guess where the ball at least hits the 1 and 2 pins, take note of which pins don’t get hit, and which pins (or the ball) come close to hitting them, and adjust your initial guess slightly so that they are hit. Varying any single one of the 3 inputs – x, h, or v – will in most cases eventually yield a win.
Detailed position and velocity data is available for any time in the simulation – Just let me know if you’d like something more than the rought ASCII “movies” I’ve been providing.
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