Using Physics Applets and Simple-to-use Web-based Materials
Compiled by Gerry Blake (IOP Teacher Network Coordinator in Norfolk and Suffolk)
for the ASE Annual Conference January 2009 at the University of Reading.
(Getting Practical; How to Make Science Teaching Come Alive!)
An electronic copy of this Word document is available free of charge @
www.iop.org >Schools and Colleges >Physics Teacher Network >Norfolk and Suffolk
If you know of or find any more excellent applets that are not on this list please email me @
gerryblake@2hollygrove.freeserve.co.uk
Top Applet Sites:
No.
Topic(Level)
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Elect/Mag
Energy(KS3/4)
Matter
Motion(KS3/4)
Atomic
Elect/Mag(KS4)
Quantum
Waves
Waves
Waves
Waves
Atomic
Atomic
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General
Motion
Matter(KS3/4)
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Light(KS3/4)
General
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Elect/Mag
Elect/Mag
Elect/Mag
Elect/Mag
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Matter
Waves
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Motion(KS4)
Waves
Waves
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Waves
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Motion(KS4)
Motion(KS4)
Motion(KS4)
Motion(KS4)
Motion
Motion
Light(KS3/4)
Quantum
Relativity
Waves(KS4)
URL
http://phet.colorado.edu/index.php
Generator/Faraday’s Electromagnetic Lab
Energy Skate Park
Gas Properties/Balloons & Buoyancy
Lunar Lander
Nuclear Physics
Ohm’s Law
Photoelectric Effect
Radio Waves & Electromagnetic Fields
Sound
Wave Interference
Wave on a String
Models of a Hydrogen Atom
Rutherford Scattering
http://jersey.uoregon.edu
Astrophysics - Elemental Spectra
Mechanics - Momentum
Thermodynamics - Balloon
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/tutorials
Refraction of Light
Powers of Ten
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java
Faraday's Electromagnetic Induction Expt
AC Generator Action
DC Generator Action
How a transformer works
www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets
Evaporative Cooling
The Doppler Effect: Source (and Observer)
www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e
Motion with Constant Acceleration
Standing Wave
Standing Longitudinal Wave
Reflection and Refraction of Light Waves
www.upscale.utoronto.ca/PVB/All.html
Motion Animation
Galilean Relativity
The Monkey and the Hunter
Racing Balls
Air Track Collisions
Simple Harmonic Motion I (& II)
Reflection and Refraction
The Double Slit Experiment 1
Deriving Length Contraction
Pressure and Displacement Waves
Comment
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Generate electricity with a bar magnet!
Conservation of energy with a skater dude!
Pump gas molecules into box.
Classic game simulating motion of a lunar lander.
Control energy production in a nuclear reactor!
The sizes of symbols change to match the circuit.
See how light knocks electrons off a metal target.
Oscillate the transmitter electron automatically.
This simulation lets you see sound waves!
Create an interference pattern with sound or light.
Watch a string vibrate in slow motion.
How a predicted model matches experiment.
Observe alpha particles scattered by nuclei.
Clicking on an element shows its line spectrum.
Explore conservation of linear momentum
Increase temperature and see particle velocities.
Change the media, angle and wavelength of light.
The Universe Within – macro to micro!
With two coils wound around a ring of soft iron.
Change the frequency at which the coil turns.
Change the frequency at which the coil turns.
Adjust input voltage and number of windings.
See how evaporative cooling works.
Two applets on the Doppler effect with sound.
Car with constant acceleration (a, v & x-t graphs)
Explanation by superposition with reflected wave.
Shows the harmonics in an open/closed tube. (And
www.physics.smu.edu/~olness/www/05fall1320/ap
plet/pipe-waves.html based on this.)
Explanation by Huygens’ Principle.
>Flash Animations for Physics.
A car with constant acceleration.
Dropping a ball from the top of the mast.
As the hunter fires the monkey drops a coconut!
Which ball will reach the end of the track first?
Elastic and inelastic collisions on an air track.
Circular motion maps simple harmonic motion.
Illustrating refraction and total internal reflection.
Feynman Double Slit Experiment for electrons.
Length contraction follows from time dilation.
Longitudinal and transverse waves compared.
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Waves
Waves
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Motion(KS4)
Motion
Motion
Waves
Waves
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Waves
Waves
Elect/Mag
Light
General
Motion(KS4)
Motion(KS4)
Motion
Light
Light
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Motion(KS4)
Motion
Motion(KS3/4)
Waves
Waves
Waves
Waves
Light
Light
Light(KS3/4)
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Matter(KS3/4)
Atomic
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Motion(KS4)
Elect/Mag
Waves
Motion(KS3/4)
Motion
Motion
Waves
Light
Elect/Mag
Quantum
Motion
Quantum
Waves
Energy
Waves
General
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Waves
Waves
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Motion(KS4)
Quantum
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92
Light
General
Waves
Matter
Reflections From a Barrier (From Two Barriers)
Standing Waves (Two applets)
www.ngsir.netfirms.com
Kinematics of 1 D uniformly accelerated motion
Inclined plane
Conical pendulum
Formation of beats
Interference of water waves I
www.surendranath.org/Apps.html
Spring Mass Oscillations
Beats and Hear the Beats
Moving Conductor in a Magnetic Field
Fermat’s Principle
Black Body Radiation
Apply the Brakes
Catch Up
Boat and River
Young's Double Slit Experiment
Single Slit Diffraction
www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/index.html
Reaction Time Measurements
Simple Harmonic Motion
Projectile/Satellite Orbits
Moving point source (Doppler effect…)
Superposition of Pulses
Fourier Synthesis
Transmission of Wave
Propagation of electromagnetic wave
Thin Lens / mirror
The world above the water surface (refraction)
http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist
Diver
Nuclear Chain Reaction
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com
Weight of a Person Riding in an Elevator
AC Transformers
Fourier Synthesis for Selected Waveforms
Free Fall on the Solar System Planets
Mechanical Work
Block on a Frictionless Inclined Plane
Superposition of Sound Waves
Cassegrain (Newtonian Reflecting) Telescope
AC Power Factor Principle
The Photoelectric Effect
Shooting a Bullet from a Car
Wave-Particle Duality in the Double-Slit Expt
Beats Working
Straight Cylinder Engine
Wave Interference
Inverse Square Laws
www.freezeray.com/physics.htm
Transverse and Longitudinal Waves
The Doppler Effect
www.stmary.ws/physics/home/animations3
Projectile Fired Horizontally & Vx
The Photoelectric Effect
http://chaos.nus.edu.sg/simulations
The Propagation of Light
Brownian Motion
Superposition of waves
Space elevator
Superposition as a wave reflects from a barrier.
With a Node on Both Ends (on One End).
>English
Via Mechanics page.
Via Mechanics page.
Via Mechanics page.
Via Light and Wave page.
Via Light and Wave page.
Via New Applets >Menu >Oscillations
Via New Applets >Menu >Waves
Via New Applets >Menu >Electricity
Via New Applets >Menu >Optics
Via New Applets >Menu >General
Via Kinematics page.
Via Kinematics page.
Via Kinematics page.
Via Optics page.
Via Optics page.
Via Mechanics page.
Via Mechanics page.
Via Dynamics page.
Via Waves page.
Via Waves page.
Via Waves page.
Via Waves page. (Huygens)
Via Electromagnetics page.
Via Light/Optics page.
Via Light/Optics page.
Click ‘applets.htm10-Sep-2003’
Via Rotational Motion, Statics
Via Nuclear Physics
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Change wavelength and amplitude.
Change speed of source.
Via Motion in a Plane
Via Modern Physics
…at the interface between two different media.
Brownian Motion!
Music synthesis.
How strong would the cable need to be?
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Quantum
Relativity
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Waves
Matter
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Waves
Space
Space
100+
200+ sims
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Motion
Motion
Motion
Matter
Light
Waves
Quantum
Waves(KS4)
Space
Space
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Elect/Mag
Elect/Mag
Elect/Mag
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115
Light
Light
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General
Motion
Space(KS3/4)
Space
Waves
Energy
Relativity
Light
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Various
General
General
Waves
Waves
Waves(KS3/4)
Matter
131
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Waves
Waves
Matter
Motion(KS3/4)
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Motion
Motion
Interference - Particles or Waves?
Mass is Relative
www.physicslab.co.uk
Two-slit interference
Gas Laws
http://physics-animations.com
Mechanics >Harmonic Oscillation
Mechanics >Satellite Motion
Top 10 >Cavendish's torsion-bar experiment
or Right click thumbnail > Save Image As
www.colpus.me.uk VPLab:free via IOP INSET
www.explorescience.com or
www.explorelearning.com or
(www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/explor
e/dswmedia/interact.htm)
Shoot the Monkey (Classic)
Inclined Plane (Simple Machine)
Fan Cart Physics (see reference 1 below)
Boyle’s Law and Charles’ Law
Ray Tracing (Lenses)
Doppler Shift Advanced
Photoelectric Effect
Earthquake - Determination of Epicenter
Star Spectra
H-R Diagram
http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D
(http://ephysics.physics.ucla.edu/MIT)
The Falling Magnet Applet (fallingmagnet.jnlp)
Two Point Charges (pcharges.jnlp)
Charging a Van de Graff… (vandegraff.jnlp)
www.int.pan.wroc.pl/gm/javaphysmath or via
www.otagophysics.ac.nz/Physics100 or
www.phys.hawaii.edu/~teb/optics/index.html
or www.physics.uoguelph.ca/applets
Single Slit Diffraction
Image Formation by a Converging Lens
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu
Einstein’s Explanation of Brownian Motion
Two-dimensional collisions
Newton’s Cannon on a Mountain
Jupiter Slingshot
The Doppler Effect
Carnot Cycle
Lightclock
Young’s Interference Experiment
www.7stones.com
Almost Full 7physics Tutorial Tool
7stones Graphing Calculator
7stones Graphing Calculator
Longitudinal and Transverse Wave Sums
2D Wave Interference in 3D
Longitudinal and Transverse Wave Lab
Pressure x Volume proportional to Temperature
www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/lab
Earthquake Epicenters
The Doppler Train
Viscosity Explorer
Galileo Drops the Ball
www.ngsir.netfirms.com/englishVersion.htm
Inclined plane
Drop an object onto a moving trolley
Is an electron a particle or a wave?
The mass of an object depends on its speed.
Download thumbnail ‘All programs in one’ or:
Click on the thumbnail for the download.
Click on the thumbnail for the download.
Download Physics Animations or
Show online (Right click >zoom >full screen) or
Show online (Right click >zoom >full screen) or
Show online (Right click >zoom >full screen) or
Then PowerPoint > Insert >Picture >From File
Click Simulations >Quick Tour (or Screen Shots)
(Limited free use – few per day & 5 min time-out)
Browse Gizmos
(For free access to some ‘Classic Gizmos’)
Classic Gizmos (near bottom of page)
>Grade 9-12 Physics >Motion and force
>Grade 9-12 Physics >Motion and force
>Grade 9-12 Physics >Fluids
>Grade 9-12 Physics >Waves, sound, and light
>Grade 9-12 Physics >Waves, sound, and light
>Grade 9-12 Physics >Waves, sound, and light
>9-12 Earth & space science >Earth’s surface…
>9-12 Earth & space sc. >The solar system…
>9-12 Earth & space sc. >The solar system…
Via Faraday’s Law
Via Electrostatics
Via Electrostatics
Click ‘index.html’
(>Simulations/ >Gamelan/)
(>Intro_physics/ >kisalev/)
Change light colour and slit width
Move the object
Via Applets!
Via Applets!
Via Flashlets!
Via Flashlets!
Via Flashlets!
Via Flashlets!
Via Flashlets!
Via Flashlets!
Click ‘Math/Science’
7stones Virtual Physics
Scientific calculator with a twist!
Under ‘Calculator’ at bottom of page
Under ‘Waves’
Under ‘Waves’
Under ‘Waves’
Under ‘Thermodynamics’
Click ‘Virtual Lab’ at bottom of page
2000 earthquakes between 1999 and 2003
Click picture for simulation
Click picture for simulation
Click picture for simulation
Via ‘Mechanics’ page
Via ‘Mechanics’ page
http://www2.biglobe.ne.jp/~norimari/science/
JavaApp/e-JavaP.html
137 Motion
Docking with a space station
And ‘Moon landing’
138 Matter
Billiards of Molecules
What’s the difference – gas, liquid, solid?
139 Waves
The relations between circular motion, SHM…
Bottom left to change speed
140 Waves
Stationary wave
Bottom left to change speed
141 Waves
Huygen’s principle
Bottom left to change speed
(http://canu.ucalgary.ca) or via
(Start)
(www.ucalgary.ca/~alphy/MAP/workinprog)
(>CalgaryApplets.html)
Go to sample MAP applets
http://turing.kingsu.ca/~map/project
142 Motion
Man on a Ladder
Conditions of stability involving torques and forces
143 Light
Multiple Slit Interference
One-many slit interference
144 Quantum
Hydrogen Atom
Simulation of the S-states of the Hydrogen atom
145 Waves
>Feeling brave? >Waves – Wave phase
Under Sample Applets
146 Relativity
>Feeling brave? >Relativity – Photon Clock
Under Sample Applets
(http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Applets)
Physlets
but better selected @
http://qbx6.ltu.edu/s_schneider/physlets/mai
n/index.shtml
147 Motion
Police Car / Speeder - Part 1a (onscreen), & 3
Via Physics 1: Kinematics – 1D Motion
148 Motion
Falling through a hole in the Earth?
Via Physics 1: Gravity , sweet sweet Gravity
149 Light
Lens/Mirror Optics Bench
Via Physics2: Optics
150 Light
Nearsighted (and Farsighted) Vision model
Via Physics2: Optics
http://falstad.com/mathphysics.html
151 Waves
Ripple Tank (2-D Waves) Applet
‘Oscillations & Waves’ (Change ‘setup’)
152 Elect/Mag
3-D Magnetostatic Fields Applet
‘Electricity & Magnetism’ (Change ‘Field selection’)
> Interactives
http://highered.mcgrawhill.com/sites/0070524076/student_view0 or
(www.mhhe.com/physsci/physical/giambatti
sta)
153 Matter
c15 Thermodynamics…
The Law of Thermodynamics and Heat Engines
154 Elect/Mag
c 20 Induction
Induction, Electromagnetic Fields and Generators
http://mutuslab.cs.uwindsor.ca/schurko/ani
mations
155 Matter
Molecular Weights, Pressure and …
In c1 Gases
156 Matter
Heat Capacity of Metal
In c2/3 First Law of Thermodynamics
http://www.vjc.moe.edu.sg/fasttrack/physics
157 General
Micrometer
For practice before use
158 Motion
Elastic collision
Re conservation of momentum
159 Light
Young’s double slits
Vary parameters
160 Atomic
Radioactivity
Compare decay graphs
161 Waves
Standing waves
Models standing sound waves
162 Elect/Mag
Velocity selector
Deflect a proton/electron in E and B fields
1. See the related ‘Teaching with Gizmos’ movies @ http://explorelearning.blogs.com/help/2005/05/creating_the_ah.html
Other excellent Applets/Animations
URL
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168
169
170
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172
Atomic
www.eas.asu.edu/~holbert/eee460/pwr.html
www.iop.org/activity/education/index.html
Electricity/Magnetism
www.csupomona.edu/~pbsiegel/www/idm/oscope.html
http://www.virtual-oscilloscope.org/simulation.html
www.article19.com/shockwave/oz.htm
Energy
http://weblogs.asp.net/rajbk/pages/silverlight-four-stroke-enginedemo-page.aspx
www.uwsp.edu/physastr/kmenning/flash/AF_2212.swf
www.keveney.com/Engines.html
http://comp.uark.edu/~jgeabana/mol_dyn/KinThI.html
http://mutuslab.cs.uwindsor.ca/schurko/animations
Comment
Pressurised Water Reactor
>Teaching Radioactivity >Animations
Oscilloscope Simulation
Virtual Oscilloscope
Ohm Zone
Four cylinder four stroke engine
Otto engine cycle
Animated Engines
Kinetic Theory
Ideal Atmosphere (in Chapter 1: Gases)
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General
www.jcrystal.com/steffenweber/JAVA/jpt/jpt.html
www.webelements.com
Light
http://ephysics.physics.ucla.edu/physlets/eblackbody.htm
http://ephysics.physics.ucla.edu/physlets/optics.html
www.shermanlab.com/science/physics/optics/ThinLens.php
http://vsg.quasihome.com/interfer.htm
www.ba.infn.it/~zito/museo/esp71/Specchio.html
www.dartmouth.edu/~chemlab/info/resources/applets.html
Matter
www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/atom
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/Slessons.php
Motion
www.jsheducation.com/4p1.html
www.stoppingdistances.org.uk
www.funderstanding.com/k12/coaster
www.et.byu.edu/~wheeler/benchtop/sim.php
Quantum
http://lppp.lancs.ac.uk
Relativity
http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/APPLETS/20/20.html
Space
www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/universcale/index.htm
http://4d2u.nao.ac.jp/english/4d2unav.html
www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth/action?opt=-p
http://janus.astro.umd.edu/SolarSystems
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/cosmic
www.mhhe.com/physsci/astronomy/applets/Hr/frame.html
www.mhhe.com/physsci/astronomy/applets/Blackbody/frame.html
http://bcs.whfreeman.com/universe6e
Waves
http://id.mind.net/~zona/mstm/physics/waves/waves.html
www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/doppler/doppler.html
www.eserc.stonybrook.edu/ProjectJava/WaveInt/index.html
www.cs.brown.edu/exploratories/freeSoftware
http://cnyack.homestead.com/files/modulation/modam.htm and
http://cnyack.homestead.com/files/modulation/modfm.htm
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html
Periodic Table
Periodic Table
Blackbody Radiation
Optics Work Bench (alternative link to 149 above)
Thin Converging Lens
Young’s Double Slit Interference
Reflected image
See Atomic Spectra
Hydrogen atom to scale
>Gas Particles in Motion >Student Labs
Sudden stop, no seat belt, no air bag
Try the Simulator
Roller Coaster
Water Rocket
Lancaster Particle Physics
>c ?
Universcale – From the nanoworld to the universe
4D2U Navigator – Plus images and movies
Earth View
Solar System Visualizer
The Cosmic Distance Scale >Begin
Stellar Evolution and the H-R Diagram
Blackbody radiation and stellar luminosity
See Animations and Videos
>Standing Wave >Standing Waves 1-On a string
Click image of sonic boom and see MPEG movie
Interference of Sinusoidal Waveforms
> Signal Processing > Nyquist Limit
- Amplitude Modulation
- Frequency Modulation
Test your own hearing (What is a decibel?)
Extras:
URL
Fun and Games
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/launchpad/launchball
www.miniclip.com/games/magic-pen
http://fantasticcontraption.com
www.noradsanta.org
www.intuitor.com/moviephysics
www.fun-motion.com
www.fun-motion.com
www.fun-motion.com
www.n.ethz.ch/student/mkos/pinguin.swf
http://improbable.com/ig/winners
Images
http://nasaimages.org
www.rense.com/general72/size.htm
www.cpepweb.org
www.pp.rhul.ac.uk/hep/hep_handouts.html
http://fusedweb.llnl.gov/CPEP
http://skymaps.com/downloads.html
www.schoolphysics.co.uk
www.countingthoughts.com
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod
http://hubblesite.org/gallery
www.sciencephoto.com
Programs
www.physclips.unsw.edu.au/site_map.htm
www.worldwidetelescope.org
cripe03.rug.ac.be/Vidshell/Vidshell.htm
www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker
www.visualsimulations.co.uk/simulations.php
www.shatters.net/celestia
www.stellarium.org
http://public.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/CLEAhome.html
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html
www.adamauton.com/warp
http://klub.chip.pl/mpytel/spek_eng.htm
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
www.enzim.hu/~szia/emanim
http://bridgecontest.usma.edu
www.officeofroadsafety.wa.gov.au
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/lifecycles/stars.html
Revision
www.s-cool.co.uk
www.antonine-education.co.uk
www.schoolphysics.org
www.bbc.co.uk/schools
Tools
www.chutedesign.co.uk/design/stat.htm
http://incompetech.com/graphpaper
www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/paper_rulers
Tutorials
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html
www.particledetectives.net
www.crocodile-clips.com/absorb/AP5/sample/020301.html
www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/schools
www.isvr.soton.ac.uk/SPCG/Tutorial/Tutorial/StartCD.htm
http://edu.larc.nasa.gov/connect/machine.html
www.wonderville.ca
http://home.clara.net/darvill
Comment
Launchball
Fun game
Another fun game
Tracks Santa
Stupid Movie Physics
Crayon Physics
Bridge Builder
Armadillo Run Demo
Smack the Pingu!
Ig Nobel Prize winners
Copyright free images
The size of our world
jpeg & pdf charts are free
Particle Physics posters
Fusion Energy Education
Monthly Sky Maps
Great diagrams
>Free resources >Physics images
Astronomy Picture of the Day (Click ‘Index’)
Click Education… for http://amazing-space.stsci.edu link
Science Photo Library
Physclips >Downloads (Zip) (www.physclips.unsw.edu.au)
Free Microsoft program
Video analysis
Video analysis
AtomScope
Celestia space simulation
Stellarium
Project CLEA
Orbiter – Space Flight Simulator
Relativity Simulator
Spektrus emission spectra
Audacity
E-M wave animations
West Point Bridge Design – Click ‘Download’
Search ‘Braking Distance Game’
Download PowerPoint Life Cycles of Stars (with notes)
Select level then subject
Click on the logo to enter the site
Revision Physics
>Secondary Science >Bitesize
Graph paper/protractors
More graph paper
Some printable paper rulers
HyperPhysics
LHC Project Simulator (See also www.lhc.ac.uk )
EMF and Internal Resistance
Sounds Amazing
Sound Waves
NASA Sound Machine
Wonderville!
Andy’s Science Site
www.windpower.org/en/tour.htm
www.kungfuscience.org
www.newscientist.com/specials.ns
http://schools.matter.org.uk/a-level.html
www.phy.bris.ac.uk/allegory
http://particleadventure.org
www.colorado.edu/physics/2000
www.astronomynotes.com
www.thirteen.org/hawking
www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight
www.classroomspace.org.uk
http://www.globalwarminginteractive.com
www.insidestory.iop.org
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/star_life/starlife_main.html
http://lgfl.skoool.co.uk
http://jvsc.jst.go.jp/find/rikigaku/english/index.htm
www.crocodile-clips.com/en/Physics
http://science.discovery.com/interactives/interactives.html
Videos
www.physclips.unsw.edu.au
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html
http://eepybird.com/dcm1.html
http://embryo.soad.umich.edu/resources/morph.mov
www.photron.com
www.iihs.org/videos
www.dft.gov.uk/think
http://www.redlake.com/gallery/videos/VIT.aspx
www.collidingparticles.com
http://dingo.care2.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience
www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips
www.gyroscopes.org/1974lecture.asp
www.planet-scicast.com
www.ted.com
http://bcs.whfreeman.com/tiplerphysics5e
www.hep.uiuc.edu/home/mats
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/wop.htm
www.teachers.tv
www.stmary.ws/physics
www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com
www.metacafe.com
www.vidipedia.org
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs
http://rt210.sl.psu.edu/phys_anim/Phys_anim.htm
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/physics/physics/index.htm
www.atomicarchive.com/mediamenu.shtml
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/science
www.periodicvideos.com
Useful extras
www.scienceonstage.ie/resources.html
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics
Wind energy guided tour
Kung Fu Science
New Scientist Specials
A-level tutorials
Physics by Allegory (Quantum, Particle Phys, Cosmology)
The Particle Adventure (Also see Interesting Physics Sites)
Physics 2000
Nick Strobel’s Astronomy Notes
Stephen Hawking’s Universe
Einstein Light
>Modules >Optics
Global Warming Interactive – CO2Fx
Inside Story: Physics in Medicine
Star Life Cycle
See KS4 Physics and Physics Toolkits
The Physics of Amusement Parks
Absorb Physics for GCSE/A-level. See ‘Sample units’.
Science Channel Interactive Library
> Site map & downloads (See Programs above)
Search ‘Video/Demo Index’
Diet Coke & Mentos video
The first 8 weeks! (See also http://embryo.soad.umich.edu )
High speed video
Understanding Car Crashes – Watch the trailer
Road Safety – Click ‘See our ads’
See ‘Barrier crash test’
LHC movies from STFC
The Galaxy Song – Eric Idle
Search ‘Top 8 LHC’ ‘All Wired’
Search ‘Top 10 amazing’ ‘All Wired’
BBC Learning Zone Clips
RI Christmas lecture
Short films
Some great talks
See Demonstrating & Applied Physics (Plus the 6e edition)
Mats Selen – ‘Whys Guy’
Clint Sprott’s Demos
Search ‘Demonstrating Physics’ particularly
Videos (& animations)
Search ‘Rollerblade bottle’
Search ‘Radioactive phone?’
Search ‘Large Hadron Rap’
Search ‘Dr Quantum’ (Flatland and Double Slit Experiment)
Search ‘Candle Cannon’
Search ‘Ship floating on nothing!’
Search ‘Sound sources - high speed film’
Search ‘Earth to America!’
Search ‘Powers of Ten’ (Eames’ original video)
Science & Tech videos
Another video site
Nova videos
Penn State – Animations for Physics and Astronomy
MITOpenCourseWare AP Physics
Atomic Archive Videos
Ask an Astronomer Videos
See Physical Science
The Periodic Table of Videos
Best of Science on Stage
Simple Wiki
www.mutr.co.uk (5% discount for SEP/TEP ‘associates’)
www.vendian.org/mncharity
www.sciencesigns.ac.uk
www.teachersdomain.org
www.practicalphysics.org
www.sciencelearningcentres.org.uk
www.issen.org.uk/cd.htm
www.npl.co.uk
www.schoolscience.co.uk
www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/toc
www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk
www.jlab.org/~cecire/garden
http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum96/interdisc/sheila3.html
http://faraday.theiet.org
www.iop.org/activity/education/index.html
http://advancingphysics.iop.org
www.ase.org.uk
www.scienceinschool.org
www.sciencelearningcentres.org.uk
www.planet-science.com
www.exploratorium.edu
http://cern.ch (>LHC2008 >What is the LHC)
www.teachingmedicalphysics.org.uk
http://btc.montana.edu/ceres
www.stemdirectories.org.uk
www.aps.org/studentsandeducators/index.cfm
www.abc.net.au/science/surfingscientist/teachstuff.htm
www.upd8.org.uk
www.sep.org.uk and www.tep.org.uk resources
Various: on the scale of things
Science sign language
See ‘Science’ >
Practical Physics
See Physics resources
Inclusive Science & SEN
See ‘Educate + Explore’
ASE links to resources
Kaye & Laby Tables
Maths (>MEP >A-Level)
Fermi Problems
Fermi Questions Library
IET Faraday
Institute of Physics
Click ‘Support Materials’
The Association for Science Education
Download Science in School issues
Science Learning Centres
With links to resources (incl. www.sycd.co.uk Science Year)
Click ‘Educate’ (Also search ‘auroras’)
See also >Education >Teaching Resources
Medical Physics Teaching Materials
CERES Project >Educ Activities eg Expanding Universe
Download The STEM Directory Science 2008/9
PhysCentral, Phys to Go, comPADRE(>K-12>Phys Front)
Surfing Scientist
Contemporary activities – worksheet based.