[ODE] beginners question

[Jeroen van den Belt]

Hi,

I have 32 cylinders. I want to push one cylinder so that other cylinders
might fall.
What is the best way to "push" it? Should I apply a Force, a Torque or
change the rotation?

Somtimes cylinders lay down in rest, partly leaking through the horizontal
plane. Any way to prevent this?

What is the unit of the timestep? What if I want to make a real-time
application.
I'm thinking of this:

	Loop
	{
		time= elapsedTime
		DoPhysics( time )
		DoRenderScene();
	}

Thanks