Adobe is steadily letting out more details on new features in Flash CS5. In addition to the ability to publish native iPhone applications from Flash, Flash CS5 will also include a new physics engine. In the video above, you can see how they use a single panel to let designers easily add weight and other properties to their objects. Properties from this panel will be used to “pre-record” the movements on the timeline before the movie is published.

I’m eagerly awaiting to see if the ActionScript part of this engine will provide a full-feautured set of physics tools, or if we still have to use 3rd party tools like Box2DFlashAS3 (which is great btw.) for advanced runtime physics.