AP Physics Websites All Links Are Live - As of 7/26/06
AP Physics Websites All Links Are Live - As of 7/26/06
Applet City! All of these sites offer an array of Java/Flash/HTML applets on a variety of topics. Should play on all browser
types.
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/web-pages/index.html - AP B site
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/web-pages/simulations-base.html
http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph11e/ - AP B site
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/activities/students/index.html
http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/
http://falstad.com/mathphysics.html
http://falstad.com/pong/
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/home.html
http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/sciweb/applets.html
http://surendranath.tripod.com/Applets.html
Demos
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/demobook/intro.htm - General
Graphing X-V-A (Simultaneous Graphing of displacement, velocity, and acceleration with student determined variables)
http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph11e/acceleration.htm
Demonstrations
http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/services/demos/mainindex.htm
Exploding Bananas
http://telcontar.net/Misc/Gorillas/
http://telcontar.net/Misc/Gorillas/readme.txt
Problems
http://webphysics.davidson.edu/
http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Applets/Applets.html
http://webphysics.davidson.edu/physletprob/default.htm
Electrostatics
http://www.arborsci.com/coolstuff/cool18.htm
All topics
http://www.arborsci.com/coolstuff/Archives.htm
Journals
American Physics Teachers http://www.aapt.org/
The Physics Teacher http://scitation.aip.org/tpt/
Answers to Questions
http://www.physicscentral.com/
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/Index.cfm
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Physics Demonstrations
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/demobook/intro.htm
Video – Powers of 10
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
A list of lists
http://www.phys.unt.edu/~klittler/unt_physics_applets_links.html
humor
http://www.darwinawards.com/
Semiconductors
http://jas.eng.buffalo.edu/
optics bench
http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Applets/optics4/default.html
history of physics
http://www.aip.org/history/
pendulum lab
http://monet.physik.unibas.ch/~elmer/pendulum/index.html
friction lab
http://monet.physik.unibas.ch/~elmer/flab/
Measurement
Motion Forces Motion in the Heavens Work & Energy
Temperature & Heat Oscillations Waves & Wave Effects
Optics Electricity & Magnetism
Atomic Physics Nuclear Physics
Measurement
Powers of Ten beginning from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersoften/index.html
Motion
Hot Wheels Track http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/mmedia/kinema/avd.html
Projectile Motion: Height vs. Distance Graph (You vary the init. velocity/ angle, mass; w/ or w/o air resistance)
http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/ProjectileMotion/jarapplet.html
Forces
Newton's 1st Law:
The Truck and Ladder http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/mmedia/newtlaws/il.html
Evaporative Cooling: See how evaporative cooling works, both in your coffee cup and in Bose-Einstein Condensation.
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/evap_cool.html
Water in a Microwave: This applet demonstrates how a microwave field makes a water molecule oscillate back and forth,
leading to heating in food. http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets/h2o.html
Pendulum: Plots displacement, velocity, (restoring) force, acceleration of a mass on a spring. You can vary the mass,
amplitude, and spring constant http://home.a-city.de/walter.fendt/phe/pendulum.htm
Coupled Pendula
http://home.a-city.de/walter.fendt/physengl/cpendula.htm
Electromagnetic Waves:
Propagation of electromagnetic wave http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/~hwang/emWave/emWave.html
Optics
Optical Accommodation of Eye Lens
http://users.erols.com/renau/eye_applet.html
Reflection/ Refraction:
Image Formation for Plane Mirrors http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/mmedia/optics/ifpm.html
Wave Interference: Stretch and shift two waves and see how they add together to interfere both constructively and
destructively. http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets/fourier.html
Ray Tracing Animations: You control object size and position, etc:
Mirror Ray Tracing: Concave or Convex http://www.physics.nwu.edu/ugrad/vpl/optics/mirrors.html
http://www.physics.nwu.edu/ugrad/vpl/optics/mirrors.html
Diverging Mirror: http://www.lightlink.com/sergey/java/java/dmirr/index.html
Color:
RGB Lighting: A set of three lights shine on a person and cast shadows of the person on a screen in the background. Turn
the various lights on and off and observe how the colors of the shadows
change.http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/shwave/lights.html
Electricity & Magnetism
Dipole Molecule in a Changing Field: See conceptually how the electromagnetic field of one charge will move a dipole
molecule (water) around like a compass needle. http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets/h2ob.html
Charging a Two-Sphere System by Induction: Using a Negatively-Charged Object
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/mmedia/estatics/itsn.html
Transformer http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/transformer/
Building A Transistor: How an individual Field Effect (FET) transistor is fabricated on a silicon wafer
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/transistor/
Atomic Physics
Absorption and Emission of Radiation (Photon) by an Atom
http://www.lightlink.com/sergey/java/java/atomphoton/index.html
Schrödinger & Bohr Atomic Models: A side-by-side comparison of the Schrödinger and Bohr models of the hydrogen atom
and how it absorbs and emits photons. http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets/schroedinger.html
Nuclear Physics
The Rutherford Experiment http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/rutherford/
The Particle Adventure: An interactive tour of quarks, antimatter, neutrinos, the fundamental force, dark matter,
accelerators, and particle detectors. http://ParticleAdventure.org/
Nuclear Science: The ABC's of nuclear science: antimatter, betarays, cosmic connection, and more.
http://www.lbl.gov/abc/