PRESENTATIONS & SIMULATIONS
CONTENTS
Mathematics,
Measurement & Material Properties
- Vectors & Other
Mathematics
- Solids Liquids & Gases
- States of matter - PhET - Watch different types
of molecules form a solid, liquid, or gas. Add or
remove heat and watch the phase change. Change
the temperature or volume of a container and see
a pressure-temperature diagram respond in real
time. Relate the interaction potential to the
forces between molecules
- BBC KS3 Bitesize Revision:
- Density
- Balloons
& Bouyancy - PhET - Experiment with a
helium balloon, a hot air balloon, or a rigid
sphere filled with different gases. Discover what
makes some balloons float and others sink.
- Density
Lab - Explore Science
- Floating
Log - Explore Science
Mechanics
- Force & Shape
- Stretching
Springs - PhET - A realistic mass and spring
laboratory. Hang masses from springs and adjust
the spring stiffness and damping. You can even
slow time. Transport the lab to different
planets. A chart shows the kinetic, potential,
and thermal energy for each spring.
- Linear Motion
- The
Moving Man - PhET - Learn about position,
velocity, and acceleration graphs. Move the
little man back and forth with the mouse and plot
his motion. Set the position, velocity, or
acceleration and let the simulation move the man
for you.
- Maze
Game - PhET - Learn about position, velocity,
and acceleration in the "Arena of
Pain". Use the green arrow to move the ball.
Add more walls to the arena to make the game more
difficult. Try to make a goal as fast as you can.
- Motion
in 2D - PhET - Learn about velocity and
acceleration vectors. Move the ball with the
mouse or let the simulation move the ball in four
types of motion (2 types of linear, simple
harmonic, circle). See the velocity and
acceleration vectors change as the ball moves.
- Ladybug
motion in 2D - PhET - Learn about position,
velocity and acceleration vectors. Move the
ladybug by setting the position, velocity or
acceleration, and see how the vectors change.
Choose linear, circular or elliptical motion, and
record and playback the motion to analyze the
behavior
- Motion
with constant acceleration - Fendt
- Bouncing
ball with motion graphs - netfirms
- Displacement-time
graph with set velocities - NTNU
- Displacement
& Aceleration-time graphs with set velocities
- NTNU
- Displacement
& Velocity-time graphs with set accelerations
- NTNU
- Football
distance-time graphs - eChalk
- Motion
graphs with tiger - NTNU
- Two
dogs running with graphs - NTNU
- Motion
graphs test - NTNU
- BBC AQA GCSE Bitesize Revision:
- Circular Motion
- Satellite
& Planetary Motion Presentations &
Simulations
- Ladybug
Revolution - PhET - Join the ladybug in an
exploration of rotational motion. Rotate the
merry-go-round to change its angle, or choose a
constant angular velocity or angular
acceleration. Explore how circular motion relates
to the bug's x,y position, velocity, and
acceleration using vectors or graphs.
- Motion
in 2D - PhET - Learn about velocity and
acceleration vectors. Move the ball with the
mouse or let the simulation move the ball in four
types of motion (2 types of linear, simple
harmonic, circle). See the velocity and
acceleration vectors change as the ball moves.
- Ladybug
motion in 2D - PhET - Learn about position,
velocity and acceleration vectors. Move the
ladybug by setting the position, velocity or
acceleration, and see how the vectors change.
Choose linear, circular or elliptical motion, and
record and playback the motion to analyze the
behavior
- Motion
produced by a force - linear & circular
cases - netfirms
- Uniform
circular motion - Fendt
- Carousel
- centripetal force - Fendt
- Relation
between speed and centripetal force - NTNU
- Vertical
circle & force vectors - NTNU
- Circular
Motion & Centripetal Force - NTNU
- Inertia
of a lead brick & Circular motion of a water
glass - 'Whys Guy' Video Clip (3 mins) (2nd
of 2 clips)
- Gravitational Force
- Gravitational
Fields Presentations & Simulations
- Free-fall
Lab - Explore Science
- Galileo
Time of Fall Demonstration - 'Whys Guy' Video
Clip (3 mins) - Time of fall independent of mass
- Leads slug and feather with and without air
resistance. (1st of 2 clips)
- Distance
Proportional to Time of Fall Squared
Demonstration - 'Whys Guy' Video Clip (3:30
mins) - Falling distance prortional to the time
of fall squared. (2nd of 2 clips some microphone
problems)
- Lunar
Lander - PhET - Can you avoid the boulder
field and land safely, just before your fuel runs
out, as Neil Armstrong did in 1969? Our version
of this classic video game accurately simulates
the real motion of the lunar lander with the
correct mass, thrust, fuel consumption rate, and
lunar gravity. The real lunar lander is very hard
to control.
- Moonlander
Use your thrusters to overcome the effects of
gravity and bring the moonlander safely down to
earth.
- BBC KS3 Bitesize Revision:
- BBC AQA GCSE Bitesize Revision:
- Frictional & Resistive
Forces
- Block
moving horizontally with friction - NTNU
- Friction
& Heating - PhET - Learn how friction
causes a material to heat up and melt. Rub two
objects together and they heat up. When one
reaches the melting temperature, particles break
free as the material melts away.
- BBC KS3 Bitesize Revision:
- BBC AQA GCSE Bitesize Revision:
- Centre
of Mass & Stability
- Energy Transfer
& Efficiency
- Heating
Substances
- Friction
& Heating - PhET - Learn how friction
causes a material to heat up and melt. Rub two
objects together and they heat up. When one
reaches the melting temperature, particles break
free as the material melts away.
- BBC KS3 Bitesize Revision:
- Gas Properties
- Gas
Properties -PhET - Pump gas molecules to a
box and see what happens as you change the
volume, add or remove heat, change gravity, and
more. Measure the temperature and pressure, and
discover how the properties of the gas vary in
relation to each other.
- Molecular
model of an ideal gas This has gas molecules
in a cylinder-piston set up. Volume, pressure
etc. can be varied - NTNU
- Gas molecule simulation of convection - falstad
- Simple
pV=nRT - 7stones
- Balloons
& Bouyancy - PhET - Experiment with a
helium balloon, a hot air balloon, or a rigid
sphere filled with different gases. Discover what
makes some balloons float and others sink.
- BBC KS3 Bitesize Revision:
- Forced
Oscillation & Damping
- Electromagnetic
Radiation
- Radio Waves
- BBC Bitesize Revision:
- Radio Waves & Electromagnetic Fields - PhET - Broadcast
radio waves from KPhET. Wiggle the transmitter
electron manually or have it oscillate
automatically. Display the field as a curve or
vectors. The strip chart shows the electron
positions at the transmitter and at the receiver.
- Simplified
MRI Scanner - PhET - Is it a tumor? Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI) can tell. Your head is
full of tiny radio transmitters (the nuclear
spins of the hydrogen nuclei of your water
molecules). In an MRI unit, these little radios
can be made to broadcast their positions, giving
a detailed picture of the inside of your head.
- Microwaves
- Microwave Ovens
- Colorado
- Microwaves - PhET - How do microwaves heat up your
coffee? Adjust the frequency and amplitude of
microwaves. Watch water molecules rotating and
bouncing around. View the microwave field as a
wave, a single line of vectors, or the entire
field.
- BBC AQA GCSE Bitesize Revision:
- Infra-Red
- Thermal Camera Pictures - falstad
- The
Greenhouse Effect - PhET - Just how do
greenhouse gases change the climate? Select the
level of atmospheric greenhouse gases during an
ice age, in the year 1750, today, or some time in
the future and see how the Earth's temperature
changes. Add clouds or panes of glass.
- BBC AQA GCSE Bitesize Revision:
- Ultra-Violet
- BBC AQA GCSE Bitesize Revision:
- Reflection (Plane
Mirror)
- Total Internal Reflection
- Electric Circuits
- Signal
Circuit - PhET - Why do the lights turn on in
a room as soon as you flip a switch? Flip the
switch and electrons slowly creep along a wire.
The light turns on when the signal reaches it.
- Charge
flow with resistors in series and parallel -
NTNU
- Circuit
Construction DC Only - PhET - An electronics
kit in your computer! Build circuits with
resistors, light bulbs, batteries, and switches.
Take measurements with the realistic ammeter and
voltmeter. View the circuit as a schematic
diagram, or switch to a life-like view.
- Circuit
Construction AC + DC - PhET - This new
version of the CCK adds capacitors, inductors and
AC voltage sources to your toolbox! Now you can
graph the current and voltage as a function of
time.
- Fifty-Fifty Game on Conductors
& Insulators - by KT - Microsoft WORD
- Hidden Pairs Game Circuit
Pairs Quiz basic circuit symbols with this
pairs game - by eChalk
- Hidden Pairs Game on Circuit
Symbols - by KT - Microsoft WORD
- Light bulb connected to a battery & switch Battery_bulb.ckt
- Crocodile Clip Presentation
- Two light bulbs connected in series to a battery
& switch Battery_series_bulbs.ckt
- Crocodile Clip Presentation
- Two light bulbs connected in parallel to a
battery & switch Battery_parallel_bulbs.ckt
- Crocodile Clip Presentation
- Selection of circuits for 3rd Year Electricity 3rdYearCircuits.ckt-
Crocodile Clip Presentation
- Electric
Current Quizes - by KT - Microsoft WORD
- Battery
Voltage - Colorado - Look inside a battery to
see how it works. Select the battery voltage and
little stick figures move charges from one end of
the battery to the other. A voltmeter tells you
the resulting battery voltage.
- BBC KS3 Bitesize Revision:
- BBC AQA GCSE Bitesize Revision:
- Resistance
- Charge
flow with resistors in series and parallel -
NTNU
- Battery-Resistor
Circuit - PhET - Look inside a resistor to
see how it works. Increase the battery voltage to
make more electrons flow though the resistor.
Increase the resistance to block the flow of
electrons. Watch the current and resistor
temperature change
- Light bulb being controlled by a variable
resistor VariableR_bulb.ckt
- Crocodile Clip Presentation
- Motor being controlled by a variable resistor VariableR_motor.ckt
- Crocodile Clip Presentation
- Electric
circuits with resistors - series &
parallel with meters - netfirms
- Variable resistor with an ammeter & a
voltmeter Resist.ckt
- Crocodile Clip Presentation
- Resistance
measurement demo - Molecular Expressions
- Resistance
combination - Fendt
- Resistors
in parallel & series - Multimedia
- Ohm's
Law - PhET - See how the equation form of
Ohm's law relates to a simple circuit. Adjust the
voltage and resistance, and see the current
change according to Ohm's law. The sizes of the
symbols in the equation change to match the
circuit diagram.
- Ohm's
Law - Fendt
- Thermistor Therm.ckt
- Crocodile Clip Presentation
- Light Dependent Resistor (LDR) LDR.ckt
- Crocodile Clip Presentation
- Resistance in a Wire - PhET - Learn about the physics
of resistance in a wire. Change its resistivity,
length, and area to see how they affect the
wire's resistance. The sizes of the symbols in
the equation change along with the diagram of a
wire.
- Resistance Wire Simulation - by KT - Designed for the GCSE
Investigation but can also be used to show the
affect of source resistance and to show power
supply maximum power. Introduction .
Worksheets for
GCSE investigation
- Conductivity
- PhET - Experiment with conductivity in metals,
plastics and photoconductors. See why metals
conduct and plastics don't, and why some
materials conduct only when you shine a
flashlight on them.
- Semiconductors
- PhET - Dope the semiconductor to create a diode
or transistor. Watch the electrons change
position and energy.
- Shunts
& multipliers with meters - netfirms
- Comparing the action of a variable resistor and a
potential divider VarRPotD
- Crocodile Clip Presentation
- Potentiometer
(potential divider) - Fendt
- Wheatstone's
Bridge - Fendt
- BBC AQA GCSE Bitesize Revision:
- Diodes
- Forward Biased Silicon Diode Diodef.ckt
- Crocodile Clip Presentation
- Reversed Biased Silicon Diode Dioder.ckt
- Crocodile Clip Presentation
- BBC AQA GCSE Bitesize Revision:
- Electrical Energy
& Power
- Generation
& Distribution of Electricity
- Magnets &
Magnetic Fields
- Bar
magnet field - Fendt
- Simplified
MRI Scanner - PhET - Is it a tumor? Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI) can tell. Your head is
full of tiny radio transmitters (the nuclear
spins of the hydrogen nuclei of your water
molecules). In an MRI unit, these little radios
can be made to broadcast their positions, giving
a detailed picture of the inside of your head.
- BBC KS3 Bitesize Revision:
- Electromagnetism
& Electromagnets
- The Generator
Effect
- Generation
of Electricity Presentations & Simulations
- Faraday
Electromagnetic Lab - PhET - Play with a bar
magnet and coils to learn about Faraday's law.
Move a bar magnet near one or two coils to make a
light bulb glow. View the magnetic field lines. A
meter shows the direction and magnitude of the
current. View the magnetic field lines or use a
meter to show the direction and magnitude of the
current. You can also play with electromagnets,
generators and transformers!
- Faraday's
Law - PhET - Light a light bulb by waving a
magnet. This demonstration of Faraday's Law shows
you how to reduce your power bill at the expense
of your grocery bill.
- EMF=BvL
experiment - netfirms
- Generator
- Fendt
- Transforners
- Transformer
- load can be changed but not turns ration -
netfirms
- Transformer
- eChalk
- Faraday
Electromagnetic Lab - PhET - Play with a bar
magnet and coils to learn about Faraday's law.
Move a bar magnet near one or two coils to make a
light bulb glow. View the magnetic field lines. A
meter shows the direction and magnitude of the
current. View the magnetic field lines or use a
meter to show the direction and magnitude of the
current. You can also play with electromagnets,
generators and transformers!
- Electrons
& Photons
- Photoelectric
Effect - PhET - See how light knocks
electrons off a metal target, and recreate the
experiment that spawned the field of quantum
mechanics.
- Photoelectric
Effect - NTNU
- Photoelectric
Effect - Fendt
- Neon
Lights - PhET - Produce light by bombarding
atoms with electrons. See how the characteristic
spectra of different elements are produced, and
configure your own element's energy states to
produce light of different colors.
- Lasers - PhET
- Create a laser by pumping the chamber
with a photon beam. Manage the energy states of
the laser's atoms to control its output.
- Conductivity
- PhET - Experiment with conductivity in metals,
plastics and photoconductors. See why metals
conduct and plastics don't, and why some
materials conduct only when you shine a
flashlight on them.
- Bohr
Atom - Fendt
- Bohr
Atom - 7stones
- Milikan
Oil Drop Experiment - NTNU
- Wave Particle Duality
- Quantum Mechanics - A Summary - Powerpoint presentation by Mrs Andrew
- July 2004
- Models of the Hydrogen Atom - PhET - How did scientists
figure out the structure of atoms without looking
at them? Try out different models by shooting
photons and alpha particles at the atom. Check
how the prediction of the model matches the
experimental results.
- Quantum
Wave Interference - PhET - When do photons,
electrons, and atoms behave like particles and
when do they behave like waves? Watch waves
spread out and interfere as they pass through a
double slit, then get detected on a screen as
tiny dots. Use quantum detectors to explore how
measurements change the waves and the patterns
they produce on the screen.
- Davisson-Germer
Electron Diffraction - PhET - Simulate the
original experiment that proved that electrons
can behave as waves. Watch electrons diffract off
a crystal of atoms, interfering with themselves
to create peaks and troughs of probability.
- Atomic Structure
- Atoms,
ions & isotopes (GCSE) - Powerpoint
presentation by KT
- Build
an atom - eChalk
- Atomic
Structure Quiz - by KT - Microsoft WORD
- Hidden Pairs Game on Atomic
Structure - by KT - Microsoft WORD
- Fifty-Fifty Game on What
particles are positive - by KT - Microsoft
WORD
- Rutherford
Scattering - PhET - How did Rutherford figure
out the structure of the atomic nucleus without
looking at it? Simulate the famous experiment in
which he disproved the Plum Pudding model of the
atom by observing alpha particles bouncing off
atoms and determining that they must have a small
core.
- Rutherford Scattering Experiment Thomson
Model of evenly distributed charge and Nuclear
Model - Michael Fowler
- Models of the Hydrogen Atom - PhET - How did scientists
figure out the structure of atoms without looking
at them? Try out different models by shooting
photons and alpha particles at the atom. Check
how the prediction of the model matches the
experimental results.
- Atomic
interactions - Phet - Explore the
interactions between various combinations of two
atoms. Turn on the force arrows to see either the
total force acting on the atoms or the individual
attractive and repulsive forces. Try the
"Adjustable Attraction" atom to see how
changing the parameters affects the interaction
- Bohr
Atom - Fendt
- Bohr
Atom - 7stones
- BBC AQA GCSE Bitesize Revision:
- Radioactivity -
Radioactive Decay
- Radioactivity - Half Life
- Activity
& Half-life (GCSE) - Powerpoint
presentation by KT
- Radioactive
decay law - half-life graph - NTNU
- Radioactive
decay and half-life - eChalk
- Half-life
with graph - Fendt
- Half-life
with graph - 7stones
- Alpha
Decay - PhET - Watch alpha particles escape
from a Polonium nucleus, causing radioactive
alpha decay. See how random decay times relate to
the half life.
- Beta
Decay - PhET - Watch beta decay occur for a
collection of nuclei or for an individual nucleus
- Dating
Game - PhET - Learn about different types of
radiometric dating, such as carbon dating.
Understand how decay and half life work to enable
radiometric dating to work. Play a game that
tests your ability to match the percentage of the
dating element that remains to the age of the
object.
- Half-Life
- S-Cool section on half-life and uses of
radioactivity including an on-screen half-life
calculation and an animation showing thickness
control.
- Hidden Pairs Game on Half
Life - by KT - Microsoft WORD
- BBC AQA GCSE Bitesize Revision:
- Radioactivity -
Uses & Safety
- Dating
Game - Phet - Learn about different types of
radiometric dating, such as carbon dating.
Understand how decay and half life work to enable
radiometric dating to work. Play a game that
tests your ability to match the percentage of the
dating element that remains to the age of the
object.
- Uses
of Radioisotopes (GCSE) - Powerpoint
presentation by JAA
- Andy
Darvill's Radioactivity Pages
- Understanding
Radiation - National Radiological Protection
Board - Useful starting point to get at useful
areas of the site.
- Radon
Gas - National Radiological Protection Board
- BBC AQA GCSE Bitesize Revision:
- Satellite &
Planetary Motion
Instructions for
using Power Point Presentations
Power Point Presentations that require Microsoft Power
Point 97, or later, to open.
- This program is available on the St.
George' College Network
- To open a presentation:
- Left click on the hyperlink
- In the 'File download' dialogue box
that appears select 'open this file from its
current location'
- Note: If you wish to save the
presentation to your own disc area then see
below.
- The presentation should open in
'slide view' on the title page.
- To save one of these presentations
into your own disc area:
- place the cursor over the
presentation required
- RIGHT click using the mouse
- select 'Save target as'
- in the dialog box following select
a place to save the file (usually in your own
network area)
- open the file in your own area
- The presentations are designed to be viewed
in 'slide presentation' mode. You may need to switch to
this mode when you open up a presentation.
Instructions for
using Crocodile Clip Simulations
- The Crocodile Clips program is available on
the St. George's College Network
- To open a simulation:
- Left click on the hyperlink
- In the 'File download' dialogue box
that appears select 'open this file from its
current location'
- Note: If you wish to save the
simulation to your own disc area then see below.
- To save one of these simulations
into your own disc area:
- place the cursor over the
simulation required
- RIGHT click using the mouse
- select 'Save target as'
- in the dialog box following select
a place to save the file (usually in your own
network area)
- open the file in your own area
- More information about this program can
found on the Crocodile
Clips Ltd. Web site