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PHYSICS ZONE

MECHANICS

Physics experiment simulations - A selection of downloadable programs - good for grade 11 and above.

Potential energy - A java applet for a falling ball - good for grade 9 and above.

Energy skate park - a program where you can investigate the energy transfers on a skateboader - good for grade 9 and above.

The ramp - enables you to investigate forces and energy on a ramp with friction - good for grade 11 and above.

Newton's cradle - A java applet version of the famous toy - good for grade 6 and above.

Balancing - A java applet where you can balance a beam- good for grade 9 and above.

Equilibrium - A more complicated beam balancing java applet - good for grade 11 and above.

ladder - A java applet showing the classic ladder against wall problem. - good for grade 11 and above.

Constant acceleration - A java applet showing graphs for constant aceleration - good for grade 9 and above.

Uniformly accelerated motion - Plot your own v-t graph and see how the a-t and s-t graphs change. - good for grade 9 and above.

Newton's second law - A java applet showing an experiment to prove this law - good for grade 11 and above.

Roller coaster - an interactive site showing the energy principles behind a roller coaster - good for grade 7 and above.

Collisions - A java applet showing velocities, energy and momentum for collisions - good for grade 11 and above.

Elastic collisions - an online experiment showing condervation of momentum - good for grade 11 and above.

Equilibrium of forces - A java applet showing equilibrium of forces using pulleys - good for grade 9 and above.

Adding forces - A java applet adding forces using parallelogram rule - good for grade 9 and above.

Forces in 1D - A program where you can investigate forces, including friction - good for grade 9 and above.

Circular motion - A java applet showing circular motion - good for grade 11 and above.

vector addition - A java applet that show you interactively how to add two or three vectors - good for grade 9 and above.

vector addition (Phet) - A Phet java applet showing how to add vectors - good for grade 11 and above.

Horizontal projectile motion - A java applet for horizontal projectile motion - good for grade 11 and above.

Projectile motion - A java applet showing projectile motion - good for grade 11 and above.

Projectile motion 2 - A java applet showing projectile motion - good for grade 11 and above.

Micrometer - a shockwave program to show you how to read a micrometer - good for grade 10 and above.

Vernier calipers - a shockwave program to show you how to read vernier calipers - good for grade 10 and above.

Circular motion - an online experiment into circular motion - good for grade 11 and above.

Friction - an online experiment on coefficient of friction - good for grade 11 and above.

Inclined plane - an online experiment on coefficient of friction - good for grade 11 and above.

Work - measures the work done on several inclined planes - good for grade 9 and above.

Masses on springs - A program which enables you to stretch and oscillate different springs - good for grade 9 and above.

Moving man - A program which lets you explore distance, velocity and acceleration -time graphs - good for grade 9 and above.

The maze game - a good game to give you an appreciation of velocity and acceleration - good for grade 9 and above.

Man on the moon - A shockwave progam where you can plot the x,y coordinates for moon jumps- good for grade 11 and above.

Ships floating on nothing - A video showing a fun demonstration of floating on gas - good for grade 7 and above.