{"id":390867,"date":"2017-03-30T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=4619609bce3e1d0b459f3210ec8772af"},"modified":"2017-03-30T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T23:00:00","slug":"modelling-human-behaviour-in-a-bumper-car-ride-using-molecular-dynamics-tools-a-student-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=390867","title":{"rendered":"Modelling human behaviour in a bumper car ride using molecular dynamics tools: a student project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amusement parks are excellent laboratories of physics, not only to check physical laws, but also to<br \/>\ninvestigate if those physical laws might also be applied to human behaviour. A group of Physics<br \/>\nEngineering students from Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya has investigated if human behaviour,<br \/>\nwhen driving bumper cars, can be modelled using tools borrowed from the analysis of molecular<br \/>\ndynamics simulations, such as the radial and angular distribution functions. After acquiring several<br \/>\nclips and obtaining the coordinates of the cars, those magnitudes are computed and analysed.<br \/>\nAdditionally, an analogous hard disks system is simulated to compare its distribution functions to<br \/>\nthose obtained from the cars\u2019 coordinates. Despite the clear difference between bumper cars and a<br \/>\nhard disk-like particle system, the obtained distribution functions are very similar. This suggests<br \/>\nthat there is no important effect of the individuals in the collective behaviour of the system in<br \/>\nterms of struc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amusement parks are excellent laboratories of physics, not only to check physical laws, but also to<br \/>\ninvestigate if those physical laws might also be applied to human behaviour. A group of Physics<br \/>\nEngineering students from Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}