Physics Virtual Lab

Physics Virtual Lab provides fun interactive, research-based science simulations

1. Atomic Interactions. Investigate how the relationship between attractive and repulsive forces govern the interaction between atoms.

2. Balancing Act. Play with objects on a teeter totter to learn about balance. Explore how to balance the plank using various objects.

3. Balloons and Static Electricity. Explore static electricity concepts such as transfer of charge, induction, attraction, repulsion, and grounding

4. Bending Light. Explore physics of bending of light between two media with different indices of refraction.

5. Build an Atom. Build atoms and determine how the identity, net charge, and mass of an atom or ion is determined.

6. Capacitor Lab Basics. Explore the relationship between capacitance, plate separation, and plate area.

7. Charges and Fields. Explore electrostatics as they arrange positive and negative charges space and observe the resulting electric field, voltage, and equipotential lines

8-9. Circuit Construction Kit: DC dc. Build circuits with batteries, light bulbs, resistors, and switches, conductors and insulators.

10. Color Vision. Investigate color perception and color subtraction.

11. Coulomb's Law. Visualize the electrostatic force that two charges exert on each other, and adjust the charge magnitude and separation to see how they affect the force.

12. Energy Forms And Changes. Explore how heating and cooling adds or removes energy. See how energy is transferred between objects.

13. Energy Skate Park. Explore and investigate the relationship between the kinetic energy, potential energy, and thermal energy of the skater.

14. Faradays Law. Investigate how a changing magnetic flux can produce a flow of electricity.

15. Forces and Motion Basics. Investigate the difference between balanced and unbalanced forces as pullers compete in a tug-of-war.

16. Friction. Observe what happens on an atomic level when you rub two objects together, and explore how friction causes a material to heat up.

17. Gravity and Orbits. Move the Sun, Earth, Moon and Space Station to see how it affects their gravitational forces and orbital paths.

18. Gravity Force Lab. Visualize the gravitational force that two objects exert on each other, and adjust the properties of the masses to see how it affects the gravitational attraction

19. Hookes Law. Explore the relationships between applied force, spring force, displacement and equilibrium.

20. John Travoltage. Explore physics of static electricity including transfer of charge, repulsion, and grounding.

21. Masses And Springs. Play with one or two mass-spring systems and discover which physics variables affect the period.

22. Molecules And Light. Explore how light interacts with molecules in our atmosphere

23. Ohm’s Law. Explore how changing the voltage or resistance influences current in a circuit

24. Pendulum Lab. Play with one or two pendulums and discover which physics variables affect the period.

25. Plinko Probability. Guess which bin a ball will fall into, compare multiple trials, switch between a concrete and abstract representation.

26. Projectile Motion. Investigate the physics factors that affect a projectile’s trajectory, such as angle, height, initial speed, and air resistance.

27. Resistance In A Wire. Explore how changing the resistivity, length, and area of a wire affects its resistance.

28. Rutherford Scattering. Observe the physics behavior of alpha particles as they travel through a thin layer of atoms.

29. States Of Matter. Heat or cool atoms and molecules and watch as they change between solid, liquid and gas phases.

30. Under Pressure. Explore pressure under and above water, as change fluid density, gravity, container shapes, and volume is varied

31. Wave Interference. Make waves with a dripping faucet, speaker, or laser. Adjust the frequency and amplitude, and observe the changes in the wave.

32. Wave On A String. Create waves and explore wave concepts such as amplitude, frequency, damping, tension, speed, reflection, and interference