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🪐 Grav Slingshot
Astrodynamic gravity well catapult. Drag and slingshot ion probes into planetary gravitational fields, gathering cosmic matter before wormhole exit.
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- Type
- Physics
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Round length
- 30–60s
- Ages
- 6+
- Controls
- Drag & Pull Back to Aim, Release to Slingshot
What it practises
- Concepts & theory: The science and maths behind the game: reflection, orbits, waves, circuits, ciphers.
- Problem-solving & planning: Planning ahead, switching strategies and working out cause and effect.
Playing rarely teaches the idea behind the game on its own, so every concept game comes with a brief and a check question.
Quick lesson: Orbits as falling
A probe near a planet is pulled towards it. Its path bends around the planet, and the right approach flings it off in a new direction.
Check question
Why doesn’t an orbiting object crash into the planet?
- Gravity switches off in space
- It falls towards the planet but moves sideways fast enough to keep missing it
- It is pushed away by the planet’s magnetism
- It has no mass
Answer: It falls towards the planet but moves sideways fast enough to keep missing it. An orbit is continuous falling: the sideways speed carries it past the planet as it falls.
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