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On-Line Demonstrations and Interactive Physics Programs

KSU Visual Quantum Mechanics http://bluegiant.phys.ksu.edu/vqm/
On-Line Physics Java Applets:  The Virtual Laboratory  http://physicsweb.org/TIPTOP/VLAB/
Interactive Physics Scenarios:  http://www.intranet.csupomona.edu/~ajm/myweb/index.ip.html
Simulations by R.W. Tarar:   http://www.saintmarys.edu/~rtarara/
Physics Applets:  http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Applets/Physlet_Demo.html
UnivNewOrleans 'Physics Illuminations':  http://www.uno.edu/~rgreene/illum.html

Harvard Mazur's Demonstration Video Clips (His Lecture Site: http://physics1.harvard.edu/)

Acceleration: Free fall under vacuum
Inertia:Eggs on plate.
Inertia: Table Setting.
Force and Pressure: Bed of nails.
Moving Reference Frames: Who's upside down?
Moving Reference Frames: Who's moving?
Moving Reference Frames: Acceleration vs. Velocity. (See how the level of the liquid tilts in this (noninertial) accelerated frame.)
Conservation of Energy: Scrambled eggs? (Like the Nose Basher)
Impulse: Dropping eggs (hard) and Dropping eggs (soft)
Impulse: Karate Dave
Motion in a Plane: Parabolic trajectory (3 Versions: Ball on a moving cart is dropped; Ball projected vertically from a horizontally moving cart: Shoot the Target)
Motion in a circle: Curve Ball (Ball is tossed between two people on a merry-go-round)
Motion in a circle: Rotational inertia
Torque: Rotational Inertia of extended objects.
Center-of-mass motion.
Torques on rotating objects.
Precession.
Gyro suitcase.
A wine glass driven at its natural frequency
Pulse propagation and Superposition (constructive and destructive interference)

North Carolina State University *
Physics Demonstrations at the University of Texas at Austin*
University of Maryland
Brown Physics Leture Demonstrations
University of California, Berkeley
University of Minnesota
Wake Forest University
Boston University

Astronomy Education Resources:

The Duke Astrophysics Home Page
Astronomy Picture of the day and the Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
Planet Finder
This Week's Sky at a Glance
Univ. of Tennessee Web Syllabus
Hands on Universe
Latest Hubble images
The Nine Planets by Bill Arnett, University of Arizona
Views of the Solar System by Calvin Hamilton, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Equipment Resources

Vernier Software
PASCO Scientific
Fisher Scinetific
Arbor Scientific

CENCO

Courses on the Web:
Musical Acoustics Course  http://www.phy.davidson.edu/dmb/PY115/MusTechF97.htm
PHY 120: General Physics (Text: Giancoli):  http://WebPhysics.davidson.edu/Course_Material/Py120/Py120.html  (This site includes Interactive Physlet Problems for a 1st semester physics course)
PHY 130: General Physics (Text: Serway):  http://WebPhysics.davidson.edu/Course_Material/Py130/Py130.html (This site includes Interactive Physlet Problems for a 1st semester physics course)

Physics Software & AV materials:

Vernier Software
Physics Academic Software
 
 

http://www.library.unt.edu/

http://cavern.uark.edu/depts/pira/

http://cavern.uark.edu/depts/pira/othrlink.html

http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/

http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/pams/physics/Edu_Resources/pirabib/demosite.html

http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/pams/physics/Edu_Resources/pirabib/mech.html

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/courses/astro201/evol_sun.htm

http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/courses/astro201/hr_diagram.htm

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

http://storm.ph.utexas.edu/~phy-demo/

http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~demog/resources.html

http://www.phy.duke.edu/~kolena/otherphys.html

http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/~dstille/

http://www.physics.umd.edu/deptinfo/facilities/lecdem/

http://www.physics.umn.edu/groups/demo/

http://www.physics.umn.edu/groups/rjones/

http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/pams/physics/Edu_Resources/pirabib/