1. Physics for Game Developers Jim Van Verth Christer Ericson Squirrel Eiserloh Gino van den Bergen Erin Catto Marq Singer

2. Why This Tutorial?  For  people who use physics packages  people who want to write basic physics  people who want to write own engine  Basics – one day crash course  Samples and references fill in the rest

3. Schedule  10:10 - 11:00 Rigid Body Dynamics (Jim)  11:10 - 11:15 Break  11:15 - 12:15 Numerical Robustness (Christer)  12:15 - 12:30 Motion and Collision (Squirrel)  12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  14:00 - 14:45 Motion and Collision, cont’d  14:45 - 16:00 Continuous Coll. Detection (Gino)  16:00 - 16:15 Break  16:15 - 17:15 Collision Response (Erin)  17:15 - 18:15(!) Cloth and Destruction (Marq)

4. Background Expected  Discrete math  Vectors  Matrices  Basic calculus  Derivatives  Newtonian physics  Forces, acceleration, velocity  Background material available on website

5. Updates  Links to updated notes, source code and web pages can be found at http://www.essentialmath.com  Also at author’s websites

6. Shameless Self-Promotion  Buy our books!  Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications  Collision Detection in Interactive 3D Environments  Real-Time Collision Detection  Game Programming Gems 4, 5, 6

7. Other References  Eberly, David H. Game Physics, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 2003.  Witken, Andrew, David Baraff, Michael Kass, SIGGRAPH Course Notes, Physically Based Modelling, SIGGRAPH 2004.  Burden, Richard L. and J. Douglas Faires, Numerical Analysis, PWS Publishing Company, Boston, MA, 1993.

8. Other References  Halliday, David, Robert Resnik, Jearl Walker. Fundamentals of Physics, Wiley, 2001.  Eric Weisstein’s Mathworld, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/  Eric Weisstein’s World of Science, http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/

9. Finally…  Please turn off cell phones and pagers  Please turn in your comment forms!