Physics Links

• Units, graphs, and vectors
• Mars Climate Orbiter
• Babylonian astronomers and the motion of Jupiter
• Vector addition
• Kinematics, forces, and frames of reference
• Chameleons’ tongues
• Frames of reference
• Bowling ball accident
• Projectile motion
• Trap-jaw ants
• Peru’s slingshot spider
• Newton’s Laws links
• Mechanics in exercise
• USC Biomechanics Research Lab - The science of track and field

• Linear momentum
• Collisions
• Kittens vs. Newton’s cradle
• How mosquitoes survive in the rain
• Water rocket
• Crossed molecular beams
• Airplane door in the tree
• Flyboarding 1, Flyboarding 2

• Energy

• How to store energy to run a city

• Gravity and weightlesness
• Hammer and feather experiment on the moon
• Coin and feather experiment in the world's largest vacuum chamber
• Spraying and wringing out water on the space station
• Rotations
• Carousel
• Planetary model applets
• Satellite orbits
• Dark matter
• Figure skating spin
• The physics of aerial skiing
• Why a cat always lands on its feet
• Japanese tops - a Fukuoka performance
• Tennis racket theorem

• Roller coaster
• The physics of trapeze
• Fight like a physicist

• Fluids
• Pascal's barrel
• Archimedes
• The gigantic boat that can carry cruise ships
• Dip transform for 3D shape reconstruction
• Floating cannonball

• Waves and sound
• Tree-hole frogs
• Hearing frequency range
• Doppler effect
• Extrasolar planets
• Depth of Jupiter’s cyclones
• Metronomes
• Cymatics
• Ultrasonic levitation - standing waves
• The physics of the electric guitar
• Australian beer symphony
• Waves: An interactive tutorial
• Sound: An interactive e-book
• Math, physics, and engineering applets by Paul Falstad (scroll down to “Acoustics”)

• Temperature and heat
• Gallery of infrared images
• One dimension, one atom, one piston
• States of matter
• Gas properties
• Air pressure, egg and bottle
• Carnot cycle
• Diesel engines

• Electric charges and fields
• Charges and fields
• Electric fields
• Millikan's oil drop experiment
• Polar molecule
• Dolphins feel electric fields
• Helicopter high voltage cable inspector
• Math, physics, and engineering applets by Paul Falstad (scroll down to “Electricity and Magnetism”)
• Electric currents
• Electrical conduction system of the heart
• Nerve impulses
• The electric brain
• How power grids work
• Solar winds/space weather
• Frequently asked questions about lightning
• Wheatstone bridge (and a different kind here)
• Magnetic fields
• Pinch effect
• Z machine
• Electrical motor
• Cathode ray tube
• Aurora borealis (Northern lights)
• The Soccket
• How hybrid engines work
• Damping of magnet motion by a copper plate
• Eddy current separation of recyclables
• Magnetic levitation
• The Lexus Hoverboard
• Magnet Academy (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)
• Magnet projects and fun from K&J Magnetics

• Electromagnetic waves

• EM wave
• Water molecules in a microwave field
• How microwaving grapes makes plasma
• The field of a moving point charge
• Math, physics, and engineering applets by Paul Falstad (scroll down to “Oscillations and Waves” and “Electrodynamics”)

• Geometric optics

• Image formation in plane mirrors
• Bending light
• Lenses
• Fish bowl starting a fire
• Rainbows
• Optics of the human eye
• Ultrafast photography at one hundred billion frames per second

• Physical optics

• Wave interference
• The brightest part of a shadow
• Fresnel diffraction patterns
• Thin film interference
• Brewster’s angle
• Photonic crystals

• Relativity

• Michelson-Morley experiment
• American Institute of Physics digital collections
  
• Time dilation experiment on an airplane
• Twin paradox
• Seeing relativistic contraction
• Special relativity and photography
• Einstein's thought experiments
• What is gravitational lensing
• Supermassive black holes (PHD Comics)
• Gravitational waves (PHD Comics)
• LIGO - discovery of gravitational waves
• Dark Matters (PHD Comics)
• Spaceship scene from Einstein on the Beach

• Quantum physics

• Photoelectric effect
• Blackbody radiation
• Solar sail
• Quantum wave interference
• Hitachi double-slit experiment
• Quantum interference of single molecules: The movie
• A virtual laboratory for molecular interferometry at the Univ. of Vienna
• What is a flame?
• Math, physics, and engineering applets by Paul Falstad (scroll down to “Quantum Mechanics”)

• Atomic structure

• The building blocks of matter
• Rutherford scattering
• Bohr and de Broglie models
• Build-an-atom
• The Orbitron
• Direct view of atomic orbitals
• The "sounds" of atoms
• Tom Lehrer – The Elements Song
• The comics book periodic table
• The internet database of periodic tables

• Tunneling

o Tunneling and wave packets

o Tunneling effect and microscope

o Scanning tunneling microscope

o Why the sun keeps shining

o Tunneling in the smallest water droplet

o Band structure

· Lasers

o Lasers

o Laserium: How a gas laser works

o Ruby laser

o Semiconductor laser

· Nuclear physics

o Nuclear fission

o Nuclear chain reaction

o The sun's power source

o ITER (International ThErmonuclear Reactor)

o Live chart of nuclides

· Stupid movie physics

· American Association of Physics Teachers ComPADRE digital library

· PhET Interactive Simulations

· Walter Fendt's Physics Apps

· Math, physics, and engineering applets by Paul Falstad

· Steven Vogel: Living in a Physical World