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Interactive Tools

Mathematical Physics

  • Graphing : You can plot functions online.  It allows you to check if your plots are correct

  • Online Integration: You can integrate several functions online facilitated by Wolfram Alpha, Can also install wolfram Alpha App on Mobile.

  • SciLab  is a free programming language for numerical computing like Matlab.  You can code for scientific applications such as data analyses plotting or numerical simulations.

  • Random  is a website that provides theory and simulation tools for a wide range of topics in probability, statistics, and stochastic processes.

Mechanics

  • The simulations developed by Erik Neumann include pendulums, coupled pendulum, mass-spring, collision, circular motion, Brachistochrone, molecule motion, etc. You can see the difference in the dynamics of processes by varying different parameters such as length, mass, gravity, etc. You may also read the physics equations used in the simulations. Click HERE to go to the simulations.

Oscillation & Waves

  • Refer to the simulations developed by Erik Neumann.  You may also read the physics equations used in the simulations. Click HERE to go to the simulations. 

Fluid Dynamics

  • PhET simulations Physics

  • Fluid flow simulation developed by Prof. Daniel Schroeder, Physics Department, Weber State University. You can visualize how fluid flows around objects of different shapes, for example, an aerofoil or spoiler. You may change fluid properties as well. Click HERE to go to the simulation. (It runs on Chrome, Firefox, and Opera browsers). Prof. Schroeder also teaches how to make such applets yourselves (CLICK HERE).

Advanced simulations for Projects

  •  Flowsquare is a free two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for unsteady, non-reactive/reactive flows. This software aims to provide a handy CFD environment so that more people can get to know what CFD is like and simulate flows for their educational and/or academic interests. 
  • OpenFOAM is an open-source software used as a platform to perform a steady-state and transient numerical simulation of fluid flow. The tutorials are also available for free.

Heat and Thermodynamics

  • PhET simulations Physics

  • Energy2D  is a free interactive multiphysics simulation software that models all three modes of heat transfer—conduction, convection, and radiation, and their coupling with particle dynamics. If you use Energy2D for your project work and present/publish the results, you should cite this article: Charles Xie, Interactive Heat Transfer Simulations for Everyone, The Physics Teacher, Volume 50, Issue 4, pp. 237-240, 2012.

Optics

  • Joptics is an ensemble of teaching resources for Physical Optics at the university level as part of physics or optics and optometry studies. It is developed by the University of Barcelona.

Electricity & Magnetism

  • PhET simulations Physics

  • Meep is a free and open-source software package for electromagnetics simulation developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You can simulate electric/magnetic fields around complex geometries.This advanced numerical simulation can solve Maxwell equations with the set boundary conditions even in the time domain. The tutorials are also given in the page.

Nuclear & Particle Physics

  • PhET Simulation on Nuclear Fission 

Atomic and Molecular Physics