Physics Links
Units and graphs
Mars Climate Orbiter
Babylonian astronomers and the motion of Jupiter
Kinematics, forces, and frames of reference
Chameleons’ tongues
Vectors
Cosmic drill art
Frame of reference
Bowling ball accident
Projectile motion
Trap-jaw ants
Newton’s Laws links
USC Biomechanics Research Lab - The science of track and field
Linear momentum
2D collisions
Bouncing water droplets
Kittens vs. Newton’s cradle
How mosquitoes survive in the rain
Flyboarding
1
,
Flyboarding
2
Energy
How to store energy to run a city
Weightlesness
Hangtimer
Spraying and wringing out water on the space station
Rotations
Carousel
Newton's mountain
Kepler's laws
Construct your own planetary orbit
Satellite orbits
What is dark matter?
Figure skating spin
Japanese tops - a Fukuoka performance
Roller coaster
The physics of trapeze
Fight like a physicist
Fluids
Archimedes
Dip Transform for 3D Shape Reconstruction
Floating cannonball
Breakup of the Larsen Ice Shelf
Waves and sound
Tree-hole frogs
Hearing frequency range
Doppler effect
Extrasolar planets
Depth of Jupiter’s cyclones
Metronomes
Cymatics
Ultrasonic levitation - standing waves
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
Gas of hard spheres
Pressure of a gas
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
Your heart's electrical system
How power grids work
Solar winds/space weather
Frequently asked questions about lightning
Wheatstone bridge
(and a different kind
here
)
Magnetic fields
Electrical motor
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)
Electromagnetic waves
EM wave
Water molecules in a microwave field
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
Einstein: image gallery
Time dilation experiment on an airplane
Twin paradox
Seeing relativity
Special relativity and photography
Einstein's thought experiments
LIGO - discovery of gravitational waves
"
Dark Matters
" on PHD Comic
s
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
Rutherford scattering
The Bohr atom
The de Broglie atom
Build-an-atom
The
Orbitron
Direct view of atomic orbitals
Tom Lehrer – The Elements Song
The comics book periodic table
The internet database of periodic tables
Tunneling
Quantum tunneling
Tunneling effect and microscope
Scanning tunneling microscope
Lasers
Lasers
Laserium
: How a gas laser works
Ruby laser
Semiconductor laser
Nuclear physics
Nuclear fission
Fusion in the sun
The sun's power source
Sun facts
ITER
(
International
ThErmonuclear
Reactor
)
Live chart of nuclides
Stupid movie physics
American Association of Physics Teachers
ComPADRE
digital library
PhET
Interactive Simulations
Steven Vogel: Living in a Physical World