736+ Pages in 28 Days

A few days ago I posted a picture of the two new text books that we received for June. One of those books is a Physics for Gaming book. FullSail doesn't expect us to completely memorize the text but we are expected to do as much as we can outside of class. This month's personal ambition of mine is to read it all. So below I've outlined the 736+ pages.

CH1 & CH2
Chapter 2 covers Basic Conepts which will mostly be review of Newton's laws, and forces. I expect this is where we'll spent at least three classes.

CH3
Rigid Body Motion, here comes the calculus.

CH4
Deformable Bodies for chapter 4 looks like the first heavy chapter as it covers basic spring systems, and the more complicated control point deformation among other things. I'm saving this for the weekend.

CH5
Physics Engines, obviously we're not going to be making one this semester and although this is a very math heavy book the chapter covers all the fundemental techniques, depending on what we learn in PG3 I might tinker a little if I can follow this far.

CH6
Chapter 6 is titled Physics and Shader Programs. Sounds simple enough, well here is an in depth preview.
- Pixel Shaders
- Skin and Bones Animation
- Rippling Ocean Waves
- Refraction
- Fresnel Reflectance
- Iridescence
Well I'm excited!

CH7 & CH8
This is the halfway point and dives back into Linear Algebra and Calculus. We will most likely dive deeper into the following chapters in class.

CH9
Numerical Methods as a name suggests will be a very boring and slow dive into concepts like "Higher-Order Taylor Methods" and other famous old people's methods of number tricks. Heck their is even a section called "Stiff Equations."

CH10
The last official chapter of the book is on Quaternions and rotation. I expect that we will cover this in depth near the final days of Physics at FullSail.