I am implementing a physical problem using OOP. I have two classes called "Room" and "Particle". Room as properties like temperature, volume, etc. Particle have properties such as mass, velocity, position, etc. I start by defining a Room object and giving it properties. I then define thousands of Particle object that are supposed to move around in the room depending on the properties of the room and the particle. To simulate the movement of a given particle, I've defined a method in the "Particles" class called "MoveParticle". Everytime I call this function, the particle moves.
The MoveParticle method depends on the properties of the room that the given particle is in. How can I access this data (properties of the Room object) as the particle and room are different objects?
In C/C++, I would define a pointer in the "Particles" class that points to a specific "Room" object, so that whenever I want to access properties in of the Room object, the pointer can go and access it. But I don't think I can do this in MATLAB.
Another work around would be to define the Room object as a global variable, however, that seem to be considered a bad practice.
Other alternatives is to pass the Room object as a argument in the MoveParticle method or include Room object as a property in the Particle class. However, that seems to be computationally inefficient since a copy of Room object is created in every Particle object which consumes a lot of memory.
Thanks a lot.
