What is a good JavaScript Physics Engine?

3 points by bl00djack 12y ago ↗ HN

I am trying to write a small interactive physics simulation where students can learn by clicking, dragging or swinging a pendulum, etc.... I found a lot of JScript Physics Engine out there, but I don't know where to start. Any suggestions?

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sunny1304 12y ago ↗

http://box2d-js.sourceforge.net/

box2d has good documentation and plenty of examples available. You can start with this.

bl00djack 12y ago ↗

Thank you so much :)

coffeecodecouch 12y ago ↗

If you want to use box2d, use box2dweb[0]. It's much smaller and faster and is actually up to date. However if you want your game to run smoothly on mobile phones your best bet is Chimpunk-js[1].

[0] https://code.google.com/p/box2dweb/

[1] https://github.com/josephg/Chipmunk-js