My name is Karol Krizka, and I am a undergraduate student at SFU where I study physics and computer science. In my free time, I write simple applications and play with my PSP.Physics Flash Animations
Karol Krizka @ March 4, 2008
PhysicsMany 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
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