Physics Links

• Units
• Mars Climate Orbiter
• Kinematics
• Vectors
• Linear momentum
• 2D collisions
• Weightlesness
• Hangtimer
• Rotations
• Newton's mountain
• Kepler's 3rd law
• Construct your own planetary orbit
• Satellite simulator
• Figure skating spins
• Understanding roller coasters
• Fluids
• Archimedes
• Breakup of the Larsen Ice Shelf
• Waves and sound
• Doppler effect
• Extrasolar planets
• Group velocity
• Australian beer symphony
• Math, physics, and engineering applets by Paul Falstad (scroll down to “Acoustics”)
• Temperature and heat
• Gallery of infrared images
• 1D, one atom, piston
• Gas of hard spheres
• Pressure of a gas
• Carnot cycle
• Diesel engines
• Electric charges and fields
• Charges and fields
• Fields and field lines
• Water molecule
• Vectors
• Math, physics, and engineering applets by Paul Falstad (scroll down to “Electricity and Magnetism”)
• Electric potential, electric energy, capacitors
• Charges and fields, building a capacitor
• Electric currents
• Ohm's law
• Electricity and the heart
• Solar winds/space weather
• Frequently Asked Questions about lightning
• DC circuits
• RC-circuit
• Magnetic fields
• Electrical motor
• How hybrid engines work
• Eddy current separation of recyclables
• Electromagnetic waves
• EM wave
• Water Molecule in a Microwave Field
• Math, physics, and engineering applets by Paul Falstad (scroll down to “Oscillations and Waves” and “Electrodynamics”)
• Geometric optics
• Flat mirror I
• Two flat mirrors
• A game with a mirror
• Fastest path
• Reflection and refraction
• Thin lens combinations
• Optics bench
• Physical optics
• Young's Two Slit Experiment
• Polarizing filter
• Diffraction on a round hole
• Diffraction on a slit
• Relativity
• Special relativity
• Relativity tutorial
• Einstein: image gallery
• Twin Paradox
• Fusion in the Sun
• Seeing Relativity
• Special Relativity and Photography
• Einstein's big idea (see the Animations box)
• Quantum physics
• Photoelectric effect
• Blackbody radiation
• Solar Sail

• Bohr's atom

• The de Broglie atom
• Quantum Corral

• Feynman's Two Slit Experiment
• Dave's Whizzy Periodic Table
• Electron configurations

• Quantum tunneling
• Scanning tunneling microscope
• How lasers work
• Isotope table
• Halflife
• Math, physics, and engineering applets by Paul Falstad (scroll down to “Quantum Mechanics”)
• Stupid movie physics