Looking for Physics Animations

I'm looking for some good sites that have physics animations. What I've found is usually hit and miss. They seem to be either too simplistic or intended for college level. When possible, I prefer to download them to my laptop because the web filter used in my high school seems to block anything even remotely useful.

Any suggestions?

I'm starting to play around with the idea of making my own because I can't find exactly what I want. Flash seems to be a possibility.

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Permalink Reply by Varnika Kapoor on May 14, 2008 at 12:05am

Hi, Maybe this link would be of some help.
http://educatorslogin.com/flash_animations_for_illustrating_physics...

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Permalink Reply by Shuchi Grover on May 14, 2008 at 5:21am

The link is not working, Varnika. Looks like the link is incomplete.

Here is the complete link -
http://educatorslog.in/flash_animations_for_illustrating_physics_co...

-Shuchi

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Permalink Reply by Varnika Kapoor on May 15, 2008 at 3:20am

OOPS !!! Sorry, guess I got it wrong, thanks for the correction. Hope its of some help to Chris anyway.

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Permalink Reply by Danny Nicholson on May 14, 2008 at 12:11am

as a starting point, there's

http://www.freezeray.com/physics.htm

http://www.yenka.com/freecontent/

and also:

http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/

http://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/ca/Spotlight/Detail?tag=Enigma

http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/

Hoping some of these will be at the right level for you

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Permalink Reply by BJ on May 15, 2008 at 6:02am

You might find PHUN to be something you can use.
http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki

It's a 2d interactive physics simulator. Very easy to use and quite "ph"un!

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Permalink Reply by Danny Nicholson on May 15, 2008 at 6:09am

Phun is excellent - works great on a whiteboard

on a related note there's games that use "real" physics

the Magic Pen game, a bit like phun, but with a purpose
http://magic.pen.fizzlebot.com/

the roller coaster game
http://puzzling.caret.cam.ac.uk/game.php?game=roller

and Launchball
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/launchpad/launchball/

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Permalink Reply by Lynn Marentette on June 8, 2008 at 12:56pm

BJ,

Have you used PHUN? I'd like to try it on an interactive whiteboard. I posted about PHUN on my blog, which has a video-clip and links to the projects and free download of the application.

Engaged Learning and Social Physics: PHUN, an Interactive 2D Physi...

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Permalink Reply by Steve O'Connor on June 9, 2008 at 10:45am

Try Teachers' Domain.

A lot of stuff from PBS. It's an excellent resource. You must register. There is material for a wide range of science topics at many levels.