Physics Web Sites

AP Credit Policy Search: https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/getting-credit-placement/search-policies/course/38

AP Physics 1 Videos (Flipping Physics): https://www.flippingphysics.com/ap-physics-1.html

University of Colorado at Boulder: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics

Physics Flashlets: http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/more_stuff/flashlets/

oPhysics: https://ophysics.com/index.html

Physics interactives: https://sites.google.com/view/afreeparticle/interactives

The Physics Classroom (various physics topics): http://www.physicsclassroom.com/

Java Applets on Physics: https://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/

The Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project: http://astro.unl.edu/naap/

Mechanics Animations: http://www.schoolphysics.co.uk/animations/Mechanics%20animations/

HTML5 Physics Lab Simulations: http://www.thephysicsaviary.com/Physics/Programs/Labs/

Graphing Motion

Bike guy: http://zonalandeducation.com/mstm/physics/mechanics/kinematics/xvaVsTime/xVsTime.html

The moving man: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/moving-man

Position, velocity, acceleration graphs: http://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/acceleration_en.htm

Acceleration Due to Gravity

Bowling ball and feather in world's largest vacuum chamber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E43-CfukEgs

Hammer and feather on the moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5_dOEyAfk

Vector Mathematics

Despicable Me - "Vector": https://youtu.be/GKQdkS0qG3g

Vector addition: http://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/resultant_en.htm

Vector addition: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/vector-addition

Projectile Motion

Shoot the monkey: https://ophysics.com/k10.html

Projectile Motion: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/projectile-motion

Mythbusters - Soccer Ball Shot from Truck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLuI118nhzc | (animated gif)

Projectile motion (gif): https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6EhZ7Yi88wXiOCdi/giphy.gif

Dog in zero g (gif): https://i.imgur.com/7Z2NeTq.gif

Newton's Laws of Motion 

Inertia and leaves (gif): https://media.giphy.com/media/6gusGP3qBnwc0/giphy-downsized-large.gif

Inertia on the ISS (gif): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8mkhDJwpygHTkw2SkV4SUVVaVk

Atwood's machine: http://www.thephysicsaviary.com/Physics/Programs/Labs/AtwoodLab/index.html

Inclined Planes

Atwood's Machine and Inclined Plane with Friction: https://ophysics.com/f3.html

Pendulums

Simple pendulum applet: http://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/pendulum_en.htm

Spring pendulum: http://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/springpendulum_en.htm

Circular Motion

Centripetal acceleration: https://www.geogebra.org/m/SPTy7ZjG

Carousel: https://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/carousel_en.htm

The Conical Pendulum: https://ophysics.com/f4.html

2001 A Space Odyssey - artificial gravity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wJQ5UrAsIY

Pilot pouring water (gif): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8mkhDJwpygHcTFBRzRUV0dReE0/view?usp=sharing

Newton's Law of Gravity and Extra-Terrestrial Physics

Mars retrograde motion simulation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSU5VwIQTNI

Retrograde motion: http://www.lasalle.edu/~smithsc/Astronomy/retrograd.html

Ptolemaic system simulator: http://astro.unl.edu/naap/ssm/animations/ptolemaic.html

Three years of Saturn: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070407.html

Three years of Saturn (animated): https://people.highline.edu/iglozman/classes/astronotes/media/saturn_retro.gif

Views of the solar system: http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm

Kepler's first law: https://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/keplerlaw1_en.htm

Kepler’s first law: http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/more_stuff/flashlets/kepler6.htm

Kepler's second law: https://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/keplerlaw2_en.htm

Your age on other planets: http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/index.html

Your weight on other planets: http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/

The Physics of Weightless Flight featuring Emily Calandrelli: https://youtu.be/7v-viGyoZAU

Emily Calandrelli and the Vomit Comet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnLQTUnXMg8

Zero G In the Vomit Comet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y_L8pnDRvY

Dog in zero g (gif): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nQYKV4HP-vs_8IgA_bvy9E5xQyUtq7m6/view?usp=sharing

Juno's flight path to Jupiter: http://i.imgur.com/EHTN00d.gif

Newton's Cannon Demonstration: http://science.sbcc.edu/physics/flash/Newtons%20Cannon.html

Newton's Cannon: https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/software/NewtonsCannon.html

What if the Earth were hollow? - MinutePhysics https://youtu.be/jN-FfJKgis8

How Long To Fall Through The Earth?: https://youtu.be/urQCmMiHKQk

Binary Simulator: http://astro.unl.edu/naap/ebs/animations/ebs.html

Multiple Star Orbits: http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/orbits.html

Eclipse calculator for Miami: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/miami

Momentum

REAL golf ball hitting steel in slow motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00I2uXDxbaE

Tiger Woods' golf ball on impact: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3802/9050335983_79c51d524c_o.gif 

Understanding Car Crashes: It's Basic Physics: https://youtu.be/yUpiV2I_IRI

Ice and center of mass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9y84rm3ao

Energy & Work

Energy Skate Park: https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/energy-skate-park-basics/latest/energy-skate-park-basics_en.html

Pendulum applet: http://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/sci_lab/Simulations/phe/pendulum.htm

Using gravity to store energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHrlnnbJuDg

Energy Skate Park: Basics: https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/energy-skate-park-basics/latest/energy-skate-park-basics_en.html

Walter Lewin and Conservation of Energy: https://youtu.be/mhIOylZMg6Q

Torque and Rotational Dynamics

Torque: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/torque

Cheetah tail: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8mkhDJwpygHLUpxWnBDSVFuMXM/view?usp=sharing

Rotational inertia on the ISS: http://i.imgur.com/8gUNHWv.gif

Moments of inertia and objects rolling down incline: https://www.geogebra.org/m/ztUKm6QV

Rolling Down an Incline: Sphere vs. Disc vs. Ring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDvcIuNEgo0\

Inclined Plane (Hollow vs Solid Sphere): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEoQjYFUGBY

Toilet Paper Drop: https://ophysics.com/r10.html

OpenStax Angular Momentum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmnkQ2ytlO8

Conservation of Angular Momentum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6PuutIm5h4

Waves & Simple Harmonic Motion

Longitudinal wave (gif): http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/waves/Lwave-v8.gif

Longitudinal wave (gif): http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/waves/Lwave-Red-2.gif

Longitudinal wave (gif): http://28oa9i1t08037ue3m1l0i861.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Wave.gif

Cart on a spring: https://afreeparticle.com/shm.html

Simple harmonic motion animations: SHM Animation 1 | SHM Animation 2

Mass-Spring System in a Gravitational Field: https://afreeparticle.com/verticalspring.html

Simple Harmonic Motion - Mass on a Spring: https://ophysics.com/w1.html

Simple Harmonic Motion: Mass on a Spring: https://www.geogebra.org/m/pY4Hvugh

Waves: Transmission & Reflection at a Boundary: https://youtu.be/dNmlNzrMF2k

Wave reflection at a medium boundary: https://youtu.be/eLDIJvTEBhg

Standing waves: http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/microwaves/standing_wave2.html

Standing longitudinal wave: https://youtu.be/C1aBB3XRDNw

Standing water wave: http://physicsfootnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/standing-wave-seiche-sim-cropped-enlarged.gif

Audible Frequencies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_frequency

Doppler effect: http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/doppler/d.htm

Doppler effect: http://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/dopplereffect_en.htm

UC Sound Pages: http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/wave-on-a-string/latest/wave-on-a-string_en.html

Supersonic Flight, Sonic Booms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWGLAAYdbbc

Beats: http://mathlets.org/mathlets/beats/

Fluid Dynamics

Gas properties / balloons & buoyancy: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/balloons-and-buoyancy

Body surface area calculator: https://www.calculator.net/body-surface-area-calculator.html (1 atm = 101,325 N/m² = 22,764 pounds/m²)

Global atmospheric pressures: https://www.windyty.com/?pressure,16.953,-84.262,1

Opening a Soda on the Ocean Floor (2.5 atm): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJiUWBiM8HE

Improperly vented train tank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WJVHtF8GwI

Buoyancy: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/buoyancy

Scuba Diver (gif): https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6ZsZv49OnQnpAdUI/giphy.gif

Sulfur hexaflouride: https://youtu.be/1PJTq2xQiQ0 | https://youtu.be/XjCmwuGKR6g

Smarter Every Day: A Baffling Balloon Behavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8mzDvpKzfY

Bernoulli's principle: http://mitchellscience.com/bernoulli_principle_animation

Laminar Flow: https://youtu.be/p08_KlTKP50?si=lM_ZVC6CDQv-36EB

Science of Golf: Why Golf Balls Have Dimples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkaLsVOrBk0

Bernoulli's principle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuAUJPUupfE

The Magnus Effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OSrvzNW9FE

What Is The Magnus Force? https://youtu.be/23f1jvGUWJs

How to curve a ball backwards (the reverse Magnus effect): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akjQbPKKD7I

The Physics of sailing: https://youtu.be/yqwb4HIrORM

The Physics of floating screwdrivers: https://youtu.be/jAYP6pWrdkc

Hydrodynamic Levitation!: https://youtu.be/mNHp8iyyIjo

Flight

The Aerodynamics of flight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=5ltjFEei3AI&feature=endscreen

Physics in a Minute: How wings really create lift: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV06PgxarW0

Lift from flow turning: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/right2.html

FoilSim III Student Version 1.4d: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/foil3.html

How Do Airplanes Fly? https://youtu.be/Gg0TXNXgz-w

Electrostatics

Electric charges and fields: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/legacy/charges-and-fields

Electric field hockey: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/electric-hockey

Electric field lines in 2D and 3D: http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html

Electric field distribution of a parallel-plate capacitor: http://mw.concord.org/modeler1.3/mirror/electrostatics/capacitor.html

Candle flame in an electric field: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7_8Gc_Llr8

Coulomb's Law (gif): https://media.giphy.com/media/l4KhOq7ytSYD0HLXO/giphy.gif

Coulomb's Law: http://www.thephysicsaviary.com/Physics/Programs/Labs/ForceElectricMiniLab/index.html

Tesla coils and Faraday cage (One Republic's Secret in The Sorcerer's Apprenctice): https://youtu.be/sFgEXkYxGqI

Capacitor lab & dielectrics: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/capacitor-lab

Ferrofluid + Glow Sticks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtBtD0_KZ9o

Electrodynamics

Alessandro Volta and the electric battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgB-Qa0izf0

Voltaic Pile - The First Battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71LnKIOT3rY

Ohm's Law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jB6hDUqN0Y

Circuit Construction Kit: DC: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/circuit-construction-kit-dc

Magnetic field around a wire: http://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/magneticfieldwire_en.htm

Lorentz force (force on a current due to a magnetic field): http://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/lorentzforce_en.htm

Magnetic field in a toroid: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/magnetic/toroid.html#c1

Faraday's Law: http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/faradays-law/latest/faradays-law_en.html

Faraday's magnetic field induction experiment 1: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/faraday/

Faraday's magnetic field induction experiment 2: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/faraday2/

Lenz's law: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/lenzlaw/index.html

Neodymium magnet in FAT copper pipe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keMpUaoA3Tg

World's Simplest Electric Train (2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1MDOerruDU

Levitating Superconductor on a Möbius strip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPqEEZa2Gis

Eddy Currents - Science Theater 23: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK9LD1G6fX8

Arbor Scientific Homopolar Motor Kit: https://www.arborsci.com/products/homopolar-motor-kit

3 Part Homopolar Motor:  https://youtu.be/-DlEHfpjxCg?si=9vi57Q3Qrp23sOZD

AC/DC Generator: http://www.walter-fendt.de/html5/phen/goenerator_en.htm

Induction cooking: How it works: http://theinductionsite.com/how-induction-works.shtml

How things work: Magnetic induction cooktops: http://www.thetartan.org/2006/2/27/scitech/howthingswork

Transformers: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/transformer/

Radio waves & electromagnetic fields: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/radio-waves

Electromagnetic waves (~12-17 min): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2gOh39IyPM&feature=youtu.be&t=12m5s

What causes the aurora? (gif): https://media.giphy.com/media/xThuW8N6Ms2pgpqFGM/giphy.gif

NASA | Solar Wind Strips Martian Atmosphere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX5JCYBZpcg

Judith Edelman - Magnetic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqR5yz0dIQ

Optics

Concave mirror: http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~phy3054/light/mirror/applets/cavemir/Welcome.html

Convex mirror: http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~phy3054/light/mirror/applets/convmir/Welcome.html

Converging mirrors: http://www.batesville.k12.in.us/Physics/PhyNet/Optics/Curved%20Mirrors/ray_diagram_applet.htm

Thin lens (converging/diverging lens/mirrors): http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~teb/java/ntnujava/Lens/lens_e.html

Geometric optics--converging lenses: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/geometric-optics

Refraction and total internal reflection: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/bending-light

Refraction through a prism: http://www.ngsir.netfirms.com/englishhtm/RefractionByPrism.htm

Lens effect due to ripples: http://www.ngsir.netfirms.com/englishhtm/ripple.htm

Lens combinations: http://chair.pa.msu.edu/applets/optics/a.htm

Total internal reflection: http://physicsfootnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fibre-optic-cables.gif

Relativity

Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity: https://youtu.be/ev9zrt__lec

Twin Paradox in General Relativity: https://youtu.be/bjHLboK2M1g

Gravity's effect on the flow of time in General Relativity: https://youtu.be/1ENkP0h8nAg

Is Gravity an Illusion: https://youtu.be/NblR01hHK6U

How Gravity Makes Things Fall: https://youtu.be/Vkfobw_PSSE

Can a Circle Be a Straight Line?: https://youtu.be/D3GVVkPb3OI

Are Space and Time An Illusion?: https://youtu.be/YycAzdtUIko

Have Gravitational Waves Been Discovered?!? (PBS Space Time): https://youtu.be/1Tstyqz2g7o

LIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves! (PBS Space Time): https://youtu.be/gw-i_VKd6Wo

Gravitational Waves Hit The Late Show: https://youtu.be/ajZojAwfEbs

Ultimate Gravitational Waves Explaination: https://youtu.be/dw7U3BYMs4U

Gravitational waves explained a little deeper: https://youtu.be/Vkfobw_PSSE

Miscellaneous Videos

Slow Motion Flipping Cat Physics (Smarter Every Day): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtWbpyjJqrU

AK-47 Underwater at 27,450 frames per second (Smarter Every Day): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp5gdUHFGIQ

A Baffling Balloon Behavior (Smarter Every Day): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8mzDvpKzfY

Mind-Blowing Magic Magnets (Smarter Every Day): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IANBoybVApQ

World's Roundest Object! - The Kilogram: https://youtu.be/ZMByI4s-D-Y  (The kilogram gets a new definition.)

Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-f4gokRBs

Prince Rupert Drop and a Hydraulic Press: http://i.imgur.com/jG2Ias6.gifv

CD Shattering at 170,000FPS! - The Slow Mo Guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs7x1Hu29Wc

Space Oddity - Chris Hadfield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo

What Happens if Your Body is Exposed to the Vacuum of Space?: https://youtu.be/pm6df_SExVw

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg

NeverWet - Super-hydrophobic spray: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZrjXSsfxMQ

Common Physics Misconceptions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IM630Z8lho8

Japanese professor makes amazing 3D optical illusions: https://youtu.be/wrei1RavBfM

Learn the Skill of Barefoot Running: http://vimeo.com/12551218

Slow-motion slinky drop: http://physicsfootnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/slinky-slo-mo.gif

The floating slinky paradox: http://physicsfootnotes.com/floating-slinky-paradox/

Slinky drop answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCMmmEEyOO0

Mythbusters file # 3: Walking on the water?: https://youtu.be/-wiYtoG9kZE

Can You Walk on Water? (Non-Newtonian Fluid Pool): https://youtu.be/D-wxnID2q4A

How strong is Oobleck? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl0BHueSjvA

MIT Physics Demo: Conductivity of Ionized Water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf2mS4J0FNg

Astronauts left reflectors and other poop on the moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsRsap2_RAc

Can two phonebooks interleaved support a car? https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=18&v=sGBKZO_sEfU

The Magnus Effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OSrvzNW9FE

"I love box." (Boston Dynamics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAmyZP-qbTE

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass: https://youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w

OK Go - The Writing's on the Wall: https://youtu.be/m86ae_e_ptU

OK Go - The One Moment: https://youtu.be/QvW61K2s0tA

OK Go - Upside Down & Inside Out: https://youtu.be/LWGJA9i18Co

Physics in Hockey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YeaXoF776M

The Physics of Barefoot Running: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGFciLU9riI&feature=em-upload_owner