My
personal picks for the best single topic, web-based instructional
aids in physics.
(Do you have or know about something that really ought to be listed here? PLEASE let me know!)
Schedule
Classes
Materials
Interactive Physics
Professional
Personal/Music
Links
Previous Page
- Number
Sense/Scale Models/Order of Magnitude
- An
Atlas of the Universe
(Richard Powell)
A tool to help appreciate the vast range of distance scales in nature.
- An
Atlas of the Universe
(Richard Powell)
- Vectors
- Statics
- Rectilinear
motion
- Kinematics
- Dynamics
- Momentum and Impulse
- Energy and Work
- Newtonian gravity
- Rotational
motion
- Rotational kinematics
- Rotational dynamics
- Rotational momentum and energy
- Oscillations
and Waves
- Oscillations
- Coupled
oscillators/Normal modes (Paul Falstad)
Longitudinal oscillations of arbitrary point loads connected by a series of arbitrary springs.
- Coupled
oscillators/Normal modes (Paul Falstad)
- Waves
- Fourier
synthesis/analysis (Paul Falstad)
The best I've found
- 2-d
ripple tank
(Paul Falstad)
An incredibly versatile 2-d wave engine. You can spend hours playing with this one--trust me.
- 2-d
rectangular modes (Paul Falstad)
Normal modes on a rectangular membrane.
- 2-d
circular modes (Paul Falstad)
Normal modes on a circular membrane.
- 3-d
rectangular modes (Paul Falstad)
Normal modes in a 3-d rectangular enclosure.
- Subluminal
(Greg Egan)
Demonstrates how anomalous dispersion can create apparently superluminal wave features.
- Fourier
synthesis/analysis (Paul Falstad)
- Oscillations
- Fluids
- Static
- Dynamic
- Thermal
physics
- Temperature
- Heat
- Kinetic
Theory
- 2-d
gas
(Paul Falstad)
With heater, movable piston (that works properly!), and velocity hisotgram.
- 2-d
gas
(Paul Falstad)
- Entropy
- Electricity
and Magnetism
- Electric
forces, fields, and potentials
- Electric
Field Applet (Physics
1, CalTech)
Place charges; see fields and equipotentials.
- Electric
Fields (Physics 2000)
A different take on the same idea
- Electric
Fields and Potentials (WebPhysics, Wofgang Christian, Davidson
College)
And yet another - Interacting
Charged Particles Simon Fraser University
Make a plasma ion by ion; observe "atoms" that form and collisional ionization and deexcitation.
- Electric
Field Applet (Physics
1, CalTech)
- Magnetic
forces and fields
- Charged
Particle in Electric and Magnetic Fields (B.Surendranath
Reddy)
Adjust components of v, E, and B; observe helical motion and ExB drift.
- Charged
Particle in Electric and Magnetic Fields (B.Surendranath
Reddy)
- Electromagnetism
- Rectangular
cavity modes (Paul Falstad)
- Rectangular
waveguide modes (Paul Falstad)
- Radiation
from an accelerating charge (Physics 1, CalTech)
- Rectangular
cavity modes (Paul Falstad)
- Electronics
- Electric
forces, fields, and potentials
- Optics
- Geometric/Ray
optics
- Ray
diagrams for lenses and mirrors
(Fu-Kwun Hwang)
- Ray
diagrams for lenses and mirrors
(Fu-Kwun Hwang)
- Physical/Wave
optics
- Diffraction
(Paul Falstad)
Fresnel diffraction from a variety of adjustable apertures with adjustable wavelength/size ratios
- Diffraction
(Paul Falstad)
- Geometric/Ray
optics
- Modern
Physics
- Relativistic physics
- Quantum physics
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