Report taken from Kotaku:
Galileo discovered the language of nature. Einstein questioned the color of rainbows. Today’s physicists ponder the vertical acceleration and horizontal velocity of an angry bird in flight. Cell phone owners from all walks of life have flocked to popular, affordable mobile game Angry Birds for its bite-sized entertainment, quirky humor and cheerful art style.
Physicists, however, are taking to the game for an entirely different sort of reason. “We’re using physics to explore this completely new video game world. We get to ask questions just like scientists ask when they’re trying to figure out the atmospheric composition of a planet, or the motion of a new never before seen asteroid,” said John Burk, a physics teacher at Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia. “What are the laws of physics in the Angry Birds world? My students get a chance to be scientists, and be among the first to find the answer to this question. ” Burk is among a growing group of physics teachers and students exploring the game as a way to reduce the study of nature and how the universe behaves to something not only a bit more accessible, but fun.
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