Physics Games

Physics games as a gateway to the world of physics

Physics - the favorite subject between children in a school. Alright, that's not maybe the case. Anyway, physics is everywhere around us and understanding at least the basic aspects of physics is vital. The problem of physics for massses is, that physics, as a fundamental science tries to explain everything via numbers, and be honest, who does love math?

Back to the Aristotle's time

In the days before Christ (BC), physics as a part of philosophy was based especially on observation. Aristotle, the most famous pupil of Platón, summarized first physics properties on basis of his simple experiences such as heavy objects are falling down or the dropped object stops. No math, no heavy logic - just simplicity of own experience. It was a time of 330 BC and this clear summarization of basic physical properties became the pinnacle of knowledge for next thousand years.

Play games - observe physics

Henrik Ipsen said, that "A picture is worth a thousand words". You surely remember many cases when something was not clear until... you saw it with your own eyes. Understand the physics is incredibly hard, even today's science knows too little about it. In the time of Aristotle, everyone saw principles of physics, but noone understood what the physics is. All waited until Aristotle would connect the things they all saw with a simple thought behind them. Today, over 2000 years later, the principle remains. We all see physics everywhere around us, but we do not know the dependence between that what we see, why it is and what it means. Educational physics games are perfect for explanation of all these physics aspects. Games are a great form of presentation of difficult things in a simple interactive form. All the common things you see in the ordinary life are presented also in physics based games, via which they can be explained either directly inside a game, or in the description below the physics game. This is the true learning through gaming.

The fundamental building block of a physics game

All gaming websites describe physics games as certain kind of a game containing physics. Well, that's basically every game, and minimally physics is behind an option to play every game. Collection of games focused at physics here on PacoGames is different. Our goal is to not just collect all games containing some kind of physics, but the ones who use physics as a main gaming element. Physics need not be only a science, it can be a good fun. Do not you belive? Then try any of our physics games and enjoy gaming and learning in one. Have fun!