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
• 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

• 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
• Group velocity
• Metronomes
• Cymatics
• Australian beer symphony
• 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
• Fields and field lines
• Water molecule
• Dolphins feel electric fields
• Helicopter High Voltage Cable Inspector
• Vectors
• Math, physics, and engineering applets by Paul Falstad (scroll down to “Electricity and Magnetism”)
• Electric currents
• Your heart's electrical system
• 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
• Eddy current separation of recyclables
• Magnetic levitation
• The Lexus Hoverboard

• Magnet Academy (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)

• Electromagnetic waves

• The field of a moving point charge
• 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
• Lenses
• Fish bowl starting a fire
• Rainbows
• Thin lens combinations
• Optics bench
• 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
• Special relativity
• Relativity tutorial
• Einstein: image gallery
• Twin paradox
• Seeing relativity
• Special relativity and photography
• Einstein's thought experiments
• LIGO - discovery of gravitational waves
• "Dark Matters" on PHD Comics
• Spaceship scene from Einstein on the Beach

• Quantum physics

• Photoelectric effect
• Blackbody radiation
• Solar sail
• Rutherford scattering
• The Bohr atom
• The de Broglie atom
• Direct view of atomic orbitals
• 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
• Build-an-atom
• Electron configurations
• What is a flame?
• Math, physics, and engineering applets by Paul Falstad (scroll down to “Quantum Mechanics”)

• 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
• PhET Interactive Simulations
• Steven Vogel: Living in a Physical World
• Animations of physical processes