Angry Birds - The Next Advance in Physics?

Okay so, maybe it's not the next great advance in physics, but it is something. Physics can be a confusing, but could games like angry birds help?

From Angry Birds to Cut the Rope, they all abide by a few core principals of physics - like gravity, inertia, and momentum - to give games a feeling of real-world predictability, but a true sense of incalculable chaos. So every time you calculate your bird toss in angry birds, and predict which way the bricks will fall, physics. In cut the rope, as OmNom's candy swings back and fourth on a rope, you'll have to compete with gravity, which is always trying to pull the sweet down; momentum, as you swing it back and forth; inertia, if you run out of slack on the rope, i mean you can't get much more physics into a game!

However much we like to say we don't need science, and we don't use what we learn in class in the real world, we do. It may not be Einstein level but it is still science. We definitely use science all the time, without having to play on our i-pod, but maybe this will help kids understand just how important, and easy it really is.

-Krystin