Observed arrival · 2026-09-07
The Physics of Pinball
A hands-on physics course that uses real pinball machines to teach mechanics, electromagnetism, oscillations, and feedback.
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The syllabus is structured as a fifteen-week progression from rolling versus sliding through energy accounting, collisions, springs, torque, tilt mechanisms, electromagnets, and sensor feedback. The page says the project has three machines available for laboratory work and specifies ordinary measurement tools—stopwatch, protractor, and multimeter—rather than advanced mathematics. It also describes a practical midterm and a final build-oriented synthesis chapter, while noting that chapters are being added as the semester is written.
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