Follow the step-by-step instructions on this interactive experiment to find out the effect bent light has on the way we read letters.
Help the Eskimo load bags of gold into the submarine to learn how force affects pressure.
Java applet simulates a Brownian motor and allows users to change the parameters while the motor is running. Includes a defining essay.
Applet demonstrates Buffon's Needle, a simple Monte Carlo method for the estimation of the value of pi.
Animated models depict how wave propagation is affected by the motion of the waves' source.
View Java applets that demonstrate straight-edge and single-slit diffraction.
Real-time, interactive gravity modeler demonstrates orbital dynamics. Includes a tutorial and several display options.
Applets provided by Syracuse University's extraterrestrial intelligence resource illustrate applications of Newton's laws to celestial mechanics.
View a simulation of Newtonian mechanics with gravity, and an interactive tutorial on the properties of the vector cross-product.
Navigate a monkey across a gully by controlling his initial angle, initial velocity and the gravitational acceleration as he swings on a vine.
Propel an Indian across a lake using a bow and weighted arrows in a simulation designed to illustrate momentum.
Interactive Java tutorial simulates planetary orbits. Includes zoom features and velocity, acceleration and orbit display options.
Experiment with an applet which diagonalizes the neutrino mass matrix and analyzes the consequences of neutrino mixing.
View a Java applet that simulates gravitating masses. Includes demos of Lagrange points and solar system stability.
Access a simulation of the Brownian diffusion of particles in a fluid. Includes downloadable source code.
Illustrates harmonic oscillation and resonance, parametric resonance, nonlinear dynamics and chaos. Includes lecture notes.
Click through applets, demos and simulations of physics principles such as heat diffusion, bifurcation, vector addition and wavelength.
Physics Java applets resource for the educator features tutorials, download instructions and example problems.
An object orbits a larger body. Use the gravitational force controls to see the changes in its behavior.
Use this interactive Java applet to generate all six of the quadric surfaces, as well as the cylinder.
Investigate the properties of light as it crosses from glass to air in this Java applet.
Link to various relativistic flight simulators, including downloadable versions, Java applications, QuickTime movies and MPEG animations.
Interactive and educational details on the concepts of sound, what it is, and how humans actually perceive it.
Demonstration of the propagation of spin waves on a two-dimensional lattice of precessing spins, or magnetization vectors.
Java applet illustrates an aspect of the theory of relativity with a spacetime diagram for the twin paradox.
Construct 3D superconductor structures with the provided interactive form. Requires the xtal-3d download.
Construct zeolite crystal structures with xtal-3d. Includes appropriate downloads and a set of customizable options.
See a depiction of simple harmonic motion in this animated Shockwave model.
Access an article and an animation that explains how lasers work.