physics model

British  

noun

1. a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude

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Example Sentences

The researchers argue that their results "provide, for the first time, a realistic particle physics model in which knots may play a crucial role in the origin of matter."

From Science Daily

A team of physicists in Japan has now shown that knotted structures can naturally appear in a realistic particle physics model that also addresses several major mysteries, including the origins of neutrino masses, dark matter, and the strong CP problem.

From Science Daily

Feng said the simple physics model gets researchers most of the way there, then the computer optimization is able to account for complexities that the physics equations can’t handle.

From Los Angeles Times

The scientists came up with an “intuitive physics” model by integrating the same inherent knowledge that developmental psychologists think a baby is born with into an AI system.

From Scientific American

You can also use physics to model the flight of a tennis ball, and tennis players, if they are any good at all, are rapidly and unconsciously computing in that physics model to figure out where a certain shot is going to end up.

From Slate