Balancing Chemical Equations
(View Complete Item Description)How do you know if a chemical equation is balanced? What can you change to balance an equation? Play a game to test your ideas!
Material Type: Simulation
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Ladybug Revolution (AR)
(View Complete Item Description)Join the ladybug in an exploration of rotational motion. Rotate the merry-go-round to change its angle, or choose a constant angular velocity or angular acceleration. Explore how circular motion relates to the bug's x,y position, velocity, and acceleration using vectors or graphs.
Material Type: Simulation
Alpha Decay
(View Complete Item Description)Watch alpha particles escape from a polonium nucleus, causing radioactive alpha decay. See how random decay times relate to the half life.
Material Type: Simulation
Resonance
(View Complete Item Description)For advanced undergraduate students: Observe resonance in a collection of driven, damped harmonic oscillators. Vary the driving frequency and amplitude, the damping constant, and the mass and spring constant of each resonator. Notice the long-lived transients when damping is small, and observe the phase change for resonators above and below resonance.
Material Type: Simulation
Nuclear Fission
(View Complete Item Description)Start a chain reaction, or introduce non-radioactive isotopes to prevent one. Control energy production in a nuclear reactor! (Previously part of the Nuclear Physics simulation - now there are separate Alpha Decay and Nuclear Fission sims.)
Material Type: Simulation
States of Matter
(View Complete Item Description)Watch different types of molecules form a solid, liquid, or gas. Add or remove heat and watch the phase change. Change the temperature or volume of a container and see a pressure-temperature diagram respond in real time. Relate the interaction potential to the forces between molecules.
Material Type: Simulation
Isotopes and Atomic Mass
(View Complete Item Description)Are all atoms of an element the same? How can you tell one isotope from another? Use the sim to learn about isotopes and how abundance relates to the average atomic mass of an element.
Material Type: Simulation
Build an Atom
(View Complete Item Description)Build an atom out of protons, neutrons, and electrons, and see how the element, charge, and mass change. Then play a game to test your ideas!
Material Type: Simulation
Build a Molecule
(View Complete Item Description)Starting from atoms, see how many molecules you can build. Collect your molecules and see them in 3D!
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Vector Addition (AR)
(View Complete Item Description)Learn how to add vectors. Drag vectors onto a graph, change their length and angle, and sum them together. The magnitude, angle, and components of each vector can be displayed in several formats.
Material Type: Simulation
Isotopes and Atomic Mass (AR)
(View Complete Item Description)Are all atoms of an element the same? How can you tell one isotope from another? Use the sim to learn about isotopes and how abundance relates to the average atomic mass of an element.
Material Type: Simulation
Bending Light
(View Complete Item Description)Explore bending of light between two media with different indices of refraction. See how changing from air to water to glass changes the bending angle. Play with prisms of different shapes and make rainbows.
Material Type: Simulation
Charges and Fields (AR)
(View Complete Item Description)Move point charges around on the playing field and then view the electric field, voltages, equipotential lines, and more. It's colorful, it's dynamic, it's free.
Material Type: Simulation
Membrane Channels (AR)
(View Complete Item Description)Insert channels in a membrane and see what happens. See how different types of channels allow particles to move through the membrane.
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Membrane Channels
(View Complete Item Description)Insert channels in a membrane and see what happens. See how different types of channels allow particles to move through the membrane.
Material Type: Simulation
Rutherford Scattering (AR)
(View Complete Item Description)How did Rutherford figure out the structure of the atom without being able to see it? Simulate the famous experiment in which he disproved the Plum Pudding model of the atom by observing alpha particles bouncing off atoms and determining that they must have a small core.
Material Type: Simulation
Density
(View Complete Item Description)Why do objects like wood float in water? Does it depend on size? Create a custom object to explore the effects of mass and volume on density. Can you discover the relationship? Use the scale to measure the mass of an object, then hold the object under water to measure its volume. Can you identify all the mystery objects?
Material Type: Simulation
Gravity and Orbits
(View Complete Item Description)Move the sun, earth, moon and space station to see how it affects their gravitational forces and orbital paths. Visualize the sizes and distances between different heavenly bodies, and turn off gravity to see what would happen without it!
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Gravity and Orbits (AR)
(View Complete Item Description)Move the sun, earth, moon and space station to see how it affects their gravitational forces and orbital paths. Visualize the sizes and distances between different heavenly bodies, and turn off gravity to see what would happen without it!
Material Type: Simulation
My Solar System (AR)
(View Complete Item Description)Build your own system of heavenly bodies and watch the gravitational ballet. With this orbit simulator, you can set initial positions, velocities, and masses of 2, 3, or 4 bodies, and then see them orbit each other.
Material Type: Simulation