YAML-driven lessons
These are YAML-driven interactive physics simulations for horse movement biomechanics education. Each lesson page reads validated YAML for the title, description, parameter definitions, controls, concepts, and experiments.
beginner
Explore gravity, restitution, damping, and ball size.
Use a simplified bouncing ball to connect ground contact, energy loss, and vertical motion concepts that help explain the timing of hoof-ground interactions in horse movement.
beginner
Explore a pendulum-like string with length, gravity, and damping controls.
Model a tendon, ligament, or simple string as a pendulum to see how length, gravity, and damping shape oscillations after a disturbance.
intermediate
Explore elasticity, damping, and applied force.
Treat a soft tissue region as a deformable elastic body and observe how elasticity and external force change the amount of strain.
beginner
Explore force, lever arm, and mass in a simplified limb lever.
Use a bone-and-joint lever model to compare applied force, load mass, and moment arms in a way that supports reasoning about equine limb mechanics.
intermediate
Explore contact force with stiffness, damping, and pull controls.
Approximate hoof-ground or bit-string contact as a spring and damper to explore how stiffness, damping, and pull influence peak contact force.
intermediate
Watch a wave travel through connected elastic bodies.
A row of ten small dynamic bodies is linked by spring-damper tissue so learners can see how an impulse moves as stretch, recoil, and damping along an elastic chain.
intermediate
A side-view horse body built from linked rigid segments.
Pelvis, ribcage, neck, head, front limb, and hind limb elements are connected with joints and elastic tissue lines to show how a hind push can move through a simplified horse body.
intermediate
Explore front-limb landing with spring, damping, and force visualization.
A simplified body, front limb, hoof, and ground contact model shows how drop height, stiffness, and damping shape the impact force after landing.
intermediate
Stretch a tendon-like elastic line and watch stored energy release.
Two bodies connected by a tendon-like spring-damper line demonstrate stretch, tension, stored elastic energy, and recoil after a timed release impulse.
intermediate
Drive a hinge joint with a motor target and torque fallback.
A dynamic limb segment rotates about a revolute joint with motor target, strength, limits, load mass, and scripted torque controls to show actuator behavior in a constrained joint.