March 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
On FB I saw pictures of "orbit of planets seen from Earth", oversimplified the ratios of the periods. Worse, Mercury was not even close. So I dusted off an old glowscript program and made it easier to use. Thanks to @wbrianlane.bsky.social for the video on widgets.
trinket.io/glowscript/5...
trinket.io/glowscript/5...
April 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
On FB I saw pictures of "orbit of planets seen from Earth", oversimplified the ratios of the periods. Worse, Mercury was not even close. So I dusted off an old glowscript program and made it easier to use. Thanks to @wbrianlane.bsky.social for the video on widgets.
trinket.io/glowscript/5...
trinket.io/glowscript/5...
Got another exercise set published in #PICUP. The students run through various scenarios to save the Earth from an asteroid, using glowscript coding. Includes momentum, constant force, and energy in the different scenarios.
www.compadre.org/PICUP/exerci...
#iTeachPhysics #glowscript #vpython
www.compadre.org/PICUP/exerci...
#iTeachPhysics #glowscript #vpython
February 24, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Got another exercise set published in #PICUP. The students run through various scenarios to save the Earth from an asteroid, using glowscript coding. Includes momentum, constant force, and energy in the different scenarios.
www.compadre.org/PICUP/exerci...
#iTeachPhysics #glowscript #vpython
www.compadre.org/PICUP/exerci...
#iTeachPhysics #glowscript #vpython
One of my intro students made a nice model of a falling Slinky, trinket.io/glowscript/2... press z to drop the Slinky. #iTeachPhysics
trinket: run code anywhere
Teach using Web VPython.
trinket.io
November 22, 2024 at 6:19 PM
One of my intro students made a nice model of a falling Slinky, trinket.io/glowscript/2... press z to drop the Slinky. #iTeachPhysics
Just a small animation, to help the students visualize a car going around a banked curve for an assignment next week. Code at trinket.io/glowscript/7...
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Just a small animation, to help the students visualize a car going around a banked curve for an assignment next week. Code at trinket.io/glowscript/7...
November 1, 2023 at 1:09 AM
Regarding the demise of #trinket: A platform called pickcode.io now supports #glowscript / #vpython (in beta testing), looks like it might do some things that trinket does. Video from them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA0E...
#iTeachPhysics
#iTeachPhysics
June 4, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Regarding the demise of #trinket: A platform called pickcode.io now supports #glowscript / #vpython (in beta testing), looks like it might do some things that trinket does. Video from them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA0E...
#iTeachPhysics
#iTeachPhysics
In Thermal Physics, the students said they had trouble visualizing a 3d standing wave--I did show them a 2d wave. We'll see if this helps. Code at www.glowscript.org#/user/burnsk...
#iTeachPhysics
#webvpython
#glowscript
#iTeachPhysics
#webvpython
#glowscript
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
In Thermal Physics, the students said they had trouble visualizing a 3d standing wave--I did show them a 2d wave. We'll see if this helps. Code at www.glowscript.org#/user/burnsk...
#iTeachPhysics
#webvpython
#glowscript
#iTeachPhysics
#webvpython
#glowscript
A glowscript program, basically Newton law of heating
trinket.io/glowscript/7...
Some data files and a complicated python program
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/h9ezz...
trinket.io/glowscript/7...
Some data files and a complicated python program
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/h9ezz...
March 16, 2024 at 12:22 AM
A glowscript program, basically Newton law of heating
trinket.io/glowscript/7...
Some data files and a complicated python program
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/h9ezz...
trinket.io/glowscript/7...
Some data files and a complicated python program
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/h9ezz...
#iTeachPhysics #glowscript #webvpython
Banked curve homework was turned in, so I added the force summation to the animation. Used labels for the first time. Code here
glowscript.org#/user/burnsk...
Banked curve homework was turned in, so I added the force summation to the animation. Used labels for the first time. Code here
glowscript.org#/user/burnsk...
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
#iTeachPhysics #glowscript #webvpython
Banked curve homework was turned in, so I added the force summation to the animation. Used labels for the first time. Code here
glowscript.org#/user/burnsk...
Banked curve homework was turned in, so I added the force summation to the animation. Used labels for the first time. Code here
glowscript.org#/user/burnsk...
Code your own 3D animation of a space invader using Glowscript/Python. - Find out more on: https://www.101computing.net/space-invaders-3d-pixel-art/
June 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Code your own 3D animation of a space invader using Glowscript/Python. - Find out more on: https://www.101computing.net/space-invaders-3d-pixel-art/
Here is a link to the code and this is what it looks like.
trinket.io/glowscript/0...
trinket.io/glowscript/0...
September 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Here is a link to the code and this is what it looks like.
trinket.io/glowscript/0...
trinket.io/glowscript/0...
GOOD NEWS 🎢: When you import trinket VPython code onto Strivemath, it keeps the same identifier part of the URL. So if a code was previously listed at trinket.io/glowscript/b..., it's now at the same URL but with trinket.strivemath.org/glowscript/ at the front and the same bunchofnumbers at the end.
July 15, 2026 at 5:56 PM
GOOD NEWS 🎢: When you import trinket VPython code onto Strivemath, it keeps the same identifier part of the URL. So if a code was previously listed at trinket.io/glowscript/b..., it's now at the same URL but with trinket.strivemath.org/glowscript/ at the front and the same bunchofnumbers at the end.
Simulation shows how the light behaves to make these observations happen.
trinket.io/glowscript/5...
trinket.io/glowscript/5...
trinket: run code anywhere
Teach using Web VPython.
trinket.io
May 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Simulation shows how the light behaves to make these observations happen.
trinket.io/glowscript/5...
trinket.io/glowscript/5...
3d in glowscript?
May 14, 2026 at 1:23 PM
3d in glowscript?
November 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
For #python, I've been trying to use glowscript.org instead of trinket.io. But do you know what's really awesome about trinket? I love that I can write some quick code or calculation and not even save it. In glowscript, you have to save it before you even start coding
Web VPython
glowscript.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:31 PM
For #python, I've been trying to use glowscript.org instead of trinket.io. But do you know what's really awesome about trinket? I love that I can write some quick code or calculation and not even save it. In glowscript, you have to save it before you even start coding
New #physics video - how to calculate the electric field due to any number of finite charges with #python
youtu.be/FL4jOAZcf1I
youtu.be/FL4jOAZcf1I
Calculate ANY Electric Field with Python
Here's how to calculate the electric field due to any finite number of charges.python codehttps://trinket.io/glowscript/6310230dd9
youtu.be
January 16, 2024 at 7:35 PM
New #physics video - how to calculate the electric field due to any number of finite charges with #python
youtu.be/FL4jOAZcf1I
youtu.be/FL4jOAZcf1I
Students asked yesterday about glowscript videos, after reminding about the book (M&I) I steered them your way.
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Students asked yesterday about glowscript videos, after reminding about the book (M&I) I steered them your way.
This came in the #glowscript google thing. An apparent free, full-featured replacement for #trinket.io
trinket.strivemath.org
#iTeachPhysics
trinket.strivemath.org
#iTeachPhysics
July 15, 2026 at 3:50 PM
This came in the #glowscript google thing. An apparent free, full-featured replacement for #trinket.io
trinket.strivemath.org
#iTeachPhysics
trinket.strivemath.org
#iTeachPhysics
Using #python and many small masses to show why the solar system is flat. #physics
youtu.be/v7svyPnIeGA
youtu.be/v7svyPnIeGA
Modeling a flat and spinning solar system using Python
Modeling a flat spinning solar system with 100 masses using Web VpythonHere is the python codehttps://trinket.io/glowscript/40c23d9d25Related - how to build ...
youtu.be
January 2, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Using #python and many small masses to show why the solar system is flat. #physics
youtu.be/v7svyPnIeGA
youtu.be/v7svyPnIeGA
#iTeachPhysics
In case anyone could use a video demonstrating optics or fluids, here are several that I made during remote-teaching. Some glowscript and spreadsheet stuff too.
www.youtube.com/@michaelburn...
In case anyone could use a video demonstrating optics or fluids, here are several that I made during remote-teaching. Some glowscript and spreadsheet stuff too.
www.youtube.com/@michaelburn...
Michael Burns-Kaurin
www.youtube.com
September 1, 2024 at 3:11 PM
#iTeachPhysics
In case anyone could use a video demonstrating optics or fluids, here are several that I made during remote-teaching. Some glowscript and spreadsheet stuff too.
www.youtube.com/@michaelburn...
In case anyone could use a video demonstrating optics or fluids, here are several that I made during remote-teaching. Some glowscript and spreadsheet stuff too.
www.youtube.com/@michaelburn...
Learned a few things about using scene.capture in vpython / glowscript, mainly things not to do--don't make an infinite loop and don't make the browser ask where to put each downloaded frame. If it's asking about each download, in an infinite loop, you can't close the browser tab or window. Argh.
February 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Learned a few things about using scene.capture in vpython / glowscript, mainly things not to do--don't make an infinite loop and don't make the browser ask where to put each downloaded frame. If it's asking about each download, in an infinite loop, you can't close the browser tab or window. Argh.
New #python and #physics video - how to model many-body interactions. In this example, it's free charges in a metal sphere.
youtu.be/CGIbYF8DBcA
youtu.be/CGIbYF8DBcA
Using Python to Model Free Charges in a Metal Sphere
Here's how to model the motion of free charges in a metal sphere.Python code 1 - single particlehttps://trinket.io/glowscript/2409e0acaaPython code 2 - many ...
youtu.be
December 13, 2023 at 11:37 PM
New #python and #physics video - how to model many-body interactions. In this example, it's free charges in a metal sphere.
youtu.be/CGIbYF8DBcA
youtu.be/CGIbYF8DBcA
Hey #Glowscript #ITeachPhysics users, I know you can change all the instances of a variable by Shift+clicking on a variable on a windows PC - is there something like that for a Mac?
March 30, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Hey #Glowscript #ITeachPhysics users, I know you can change all the instances of a variable by Shift+clicking on a variable on a windows PC - is there something like that for a Mac?