PHYSICS MEDIA LIBRARY

Active Figures
 
Interactive Examples

1.6

Trigonometry and Cartesian Coordinates

2.5

Car Chase

1.7

Cartesian and Polar Coordinates

2.9

Not a Bad Throw for a Rookie

2.2

Position vs. Time

3.3

Take a Hike

2.12

Motion Graphs for an Accelerating Car

3.7

That's Quite an Arm

2.13

Match the Motion

3.10

Crossing a River

2.15

Acceleration and Slope

4.10

Atwood's Machine

2.22

Follow the Bouncing Ball

4.15

Two Objects Connected by a Cord

3.3

Vector Addition and Subtraction

5.5

Conservation of Mechanical Energy - Free Fall

3.14

Velocity Components in Projectile Motion

5.9

A Block-Spring System

3.15

Position and Time in Projectile Motion

6.3

The Archer

4.6

Gravitational Force

6.7

Two Blocks and a Spring

4.18

The Atwood Machine

7.7

Buckle Up for Safety

4.19

Static and Kinetic Frictional Forces

7.15

Keep Your Eye on the Ball

4.21

Acceleration Up and Down an Incline with Friction

8.7

Walking a Horizontal Beam

4.X

Contact Forces

8.8

Don't Climb the Ladder

5.5

Work Done Against Gravity

8.11

Angular Acceleration of a Wheel

5.15

Projectiles Launched at Different Angles

9.7

The Car Lift

5.20

Block-Spring System I

9.13

Torricelli's Law

5.29

Block-Spring System II

10.10

Heating a Spray Can

6.10

Perfectly Inelastic Collisions

11.10

The R Value of a Typical Wall

6.13

Perfectly Elastic Collisions

11.13

The Leaky Window

6.15

Collisions in Two Dimensions

13.10

Rescuing the Hiker

7.5

Rotation of a Rigid Object About a Fixed Axis

14.1

Sound Waves in Various Media

7.17

Gravitational Force

14.5

Doppler Submarines

7.21

Properties of Ellipses

14.6

Two Speakers Driven by the Same Source

7.21b

Elliptical Orbits

14.7

Guitar Fundamentals

7.22

Kepler's Second Law

15.2

May the Force Be Zero

8.25

Objects Rolling Down an Incline

15.9

A Spherically Symmetric Charge Distribution

9.3

Young's Modulus

15.10

A Sphere Inside a Spherical Shell

9.5

Shear Modulus

16.2

Motion of a Proton in a Uniform Electric Field

9.6

Bulk Modulus

16.8

Equivalent Capacitance

9.19

Buoyant Force for Different Object Densities

16.11

Rewiring Two Charged Capacitors

9.20

Buoyant Force for Different Object and Fluid Densities

17.4

The Resistance of Nichrome Wire

10.10

Thermal Expansion of a Metal Washer

17.8

Linking Electricity and Thermodynamics

10.12

Characteristics of an Ideal Gas

18.2

Three Resistors in Parallel

10.15

Maxwell Speed Distribution

18.5

Applying Kirchhoff's Rules

12.1

Work Done on a Gas

19.10

Bending an Electron Beam

12.2

PV Processes

20.8

An RL Circuit

12.9

A Heat Engine

20.10

Motional emf Induced in a Rotating Bar

12.12

A Heat Pump

20.11

Magnetic Force Acting on a Sliding Bar

12.15

The Carnot Cycle

21.4

Analyzing a Series RLC Circuit

13.1

Mass on a Spring

21.6

A Resonating Series RLC Circuit

13.8

Simple Harmonic Motion and Circular Motion Compared

22.1

The Double-Reflecting Light Ray

13.12

Simple Harmonic Motion with Different Amplitudes

22.4

Light Passing Through a Slab

13.13

Position vs. Time for a Block-Spring System

23.2

Images Formed by Spherical Mirrors

13.15

The Simple Pendulum

23.7

Images Formed by Thin Lenses

13.16

A Pendulum Compared to a Block-Spring System

23.9

Two Lenses in a Row

13.19

Damped Oscillation

24.1

Measuring the Wavelength of a Light Source

13.24

Sinusoidal Waves

24.3

Nonreflective Coatings for Solar Cells

13.26

A Sinusoidal Wave on a String

24.6

A Single-Slit Experiment

13.29

Superposition of Traveling Waves

   

13.32

Reflection of Waves

24.7

A Diffraction Grating

13.34

Pulse on a Rope - One Free and One Fixed End

26.9

The Pole-in-the-Barn Paradox

13.35

Pulse on a Rope - One Free End and Fixed-End Support

26.10

Relativistic Leaders of the Pack

14.2

Generating Longitudinal Sound Waves

27.3

Photoelectrons from Sodium

14.8

The Doppler Effect

27.6

Compton Scattering at 45°

14.10

The Doppler Effect for Two Stationary Observers

28.1

The Balmer Series for Hydrogen

14.18

Standing Waves on a String Fixed at Both Ends

29.3

The Activity of Radium

14.25

Beats

30.7

Detecting Proton Decay

15.6

Coulomb's Law

 

15.11

The Small Positive Test Charge

15.16

Electric Field Lines

15.21

The Millikan Oil-Drop Experiment

15.28

Electric Flux Through an Arbitrary Closed Surface

16.7

Electric Potential and Potential Energy

16.13

Parallel Plate Capacitors

16.17

Capacitors Combined in Parallel

16.19

Capacitors Combined in Series

17.4

Electron Drift in a Conductor

17.11

Ohm's Law and Electric Power

18.1

A Real Battery

18.2

Resistors Connected in Series

18.6

Resistors Connected in Parallel

18.16

Charging a Capacitor

18.17

Discharging a Capacitor

19.2

Magnetic Field of a Permanently Magnetized Bar

19.15

Torque on a Current Loop

19.17

A DC Generator

19.19

Motion of a Charged Particle in a Uniform Magnetic Field

19.20

A Charged Particle with a Helical Path

19.21

A Velocity Selector

19.22

The Mass Spectrometer

19.23

Magnetic Field Due to a Long Straight Wire

19.28

Force Between Long Parallel Wires

20.2

Magnetic Flux

20.4

Induced Currents

20.13

Motional emf

20.20

An AC Generator

20.22

A DC Generator

20.27

An RL Circuit

21.1

Resistors in an AC Circuit

21.4

Capacitors in an AC Circuit

21.6

Inductors in an AC Circuit

21.8

The RLC Series Circuit

21.13

Resonance in an RLC Circuit

21.20

A Transverse Electromagnetic Wave

22.4

Reflection

22.6

Refraction

22.7

Transmission Through Three Media

22.19

The Raindrop

22.25

Total Internal Reflection

22.29

Fiber Optics

23.2

A Plane Mirror

23.13

Spherical and Parabolic Mirrors

23.16

Images Formed by Flat Refracting Surfaces

23.25

Thin Lenses

24.1

Young's Double-Slit Experiment

24.16

Fraunhofer Diffraction Pattern for a Single Slit

24.20

The Diffraction Grating

24.21

The Diffraction Grating Spectrometer

24.26

The Linear Polarizer

25.7

The Compound Microscope

25.8

The Refracting Telescope

25.15

The Michelson Interferometer

26.4

The Michelson-Morley Experiment

26.8

Time Dilation

26.11

Length Contraction

27.2

Blackbody Radiation

27.3

Planck's Quantized Energy States

27.4

The Photoelectric Effect

28.6

Bohr's Model of the Hydrogen Atom

28.17

Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission

29.1

Rutherford Scattering

29.6

Radioactive Decay

29.7

Alpha Decay of Radium-226

30.2

A Nuclear Chain Reaction

30.10

Quarks