Physics Links

Animations of Physical Processes
• Units
  • Mars Climate Orbiter
• Kinematics and frames of reference
  • Vectors
  • Bowling ball accident
  • Projectile motion
  • Trap-jaw ants
• Linear momentum
  • 2D collisions
  • Bouncing water droplets
• Weightlesness
  • Hangtimer
• Rotations
  • Carousel
  • Newton's mountain
  • Kepler's 3rd law
  • Construct your own planetary orbit
  • Geosynchronous satellite
  • UCLA Galactic Center Group
  • Figure skating spins
• Roller coaster 1 , Roller coaster 2
• Fluids
  • Archimedes
  • Floating cannonball
  • Breakup of the Larsen Ice Shelf
• Waves and sound
  • Tree-hole frogs
  • 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
  • The electrocardiogram
  • Electricity and the heart: History
  • 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
  • Magnetic levitation
• 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
  • Michelson-Morley Experiment
  • Special relativity
  • Relativity tutorial
  • Einstein: image gallery
  • Twin Paradox
  • Seeing Relativity
  • Special Relativity and Photography
  • Einstein's big idea (see the Animations box)
  • "Dark Matters" on PHD Comics
• Quantum physics
  • Photoelectric effect
  • Blackbody radiation
  • Solar Sail
  • Bohr's atom
  • The de Broglie atom
  • Quantum Corral
  • Double-slit applet
  • Hitachi double-slit experiment
  • Dave's Whizzy Periodic Table
  • Electron configurations
  • Quantum tunneling
  • Scanning tunneling microscope
  • How lasers work
  • Math, physics, and engineering applets by Paul Falstad (scroll down to “Quantum Mechanics”)
• Nuclear physics
  • Isotope table
  • Halflife
  • Fusion in the Sun
  • The Sun's Power Source
  • Sun facts
  • ITER (International thermonuclear reactor)

 

• Stupid movie physics