Physics Flash Animations

Many of you probably seen your physics professors show off simple Java applets to demonstrate simple principles. But something that I noticed is that they never show off animations made in Flash, so I always guessed that there aren’t any good ones. However that does not seem to be the case, as I just stumbled across a post on the Physics Forums blog that linked to an entire list of over 100 such Flash based physics simulations! Although I hate Flash due to its incompatibility with 64bit Linux, I do agree that it is a pretty good platform for creating user-interactive online animations.

Here is a list of my favourites:

• The Double Slit Experiments With Electrons
• The Double Slit Experiment – Wave vs Particle
• Three Body Gravitational Problem
• Two Balls Launched At Different Angles
• Dropping Balls In Two Inertial Frames
• Projectile Motion w/ Position Vector Arrow <- Creates pretty awesome pattern
• The Classical Shoot The Monkey Example
• Elastic Collision
• Coupled Harmonic Oscillators <- Needs some graph drawing
• Electric Field Around an Oscillating Charge
• Area of a Circle Using Polygons
• Scattering Bearings off a Target
• Random Radioactive Decay
• Travelling Waves
• Standing Wave Generation
• Doppler Effect