Our Physics section is a great place for the student trying to get ahead, catch up, or even the hobbyist curious to learn more about the amazing rules which govern existence. Here you'll find information on electromagnetism, to gravity, to quantum theory, and everything in between. Our ever growing list of animations, videos, lectures, and useful sources of information will ensure you can fully understand the depth and wonder of physics, weather you are a visual learner, or a kinetic learner, we will find the lesson that speaks clearly to you.

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Type: Interactive Applets

This website is run by Paul Falstad, who I believe is a professor, but I have had trouble finding definitive information on his personal life. His site contains many, many different Java applets that will visually demonstrate in 3D a variety of math, physics, and engineering concepts. These interactive Java applets are quite amazing, allowing you to visualize the results of extremely complex mathematical and physical systems, as well as adjust values and observe the results right before your eyes. These applets are a must for any hardcore engineering, math, or physics student, or any other discipline with a focus on high level math. Some of the concepts he covers are: Oscillations and Waves, Acoustics, Signal Processing, Electricity and Magnetism, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, Linear Algebra, Vector Calculus, Thermodynamics and still more! I will personally be spending quite a bit of time with these applets in one window, and Wikipedia in another. As someone who takes a great deal of interest in theoretical physics I find it disturbing that I understand so little about the Quantum Mechanics applets he has, I should be able to understand what each value is and, with the help of these amazing visualizations, build an intuitive sense of how each value affects the distributions. Remember, 30% of your brain is devoted to your eyes, there is nothing better than seeing the results in an interactive 3D environment.

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Type: Flash

These flash animation by David M. Harrison of the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto are excellent learning tools. Clearly designed for students to use as learning aids these 92 different animations clearly illustrate physics concepts and the math behind them. With 13 different categories of physics animations you are sure to the answers to your questions in simple, visual exercises. His animations have been such a popular learning tool that they've even been translated into four different languages ( Catalan, Spanish and Basque, and Greek) by volunteers who wanted to share then with their local community, I can think of no better compliment than that. All of the animations are small and most require flash 6 or higher, only one so far requires flash 7 or higher, nearly everyone should be able to play these animation on even much older computers.

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Type: Webpage

Easy physics is a great web page to really start getting into physics with, it may even remind you of a few old textbooks you might have had before. Easy Physics is broken up into 15 Chapters of material, each being a lesson including all of the mathematics, and questions built right into the web page to test your understanding as you go along. At the end of each chapter is even a short quiz to be sure you've retained everything you've read. This is an excellent compliment to other physics materials, and well go a long way towards teaching the mathematics behind the laws, which can often be the hardest part. Highly recommended for anyone studying physics looking for extra help, or to get ahead, or any hobbyist or theorist who needs a better grasp on the mathematics underlaying these important concepts.

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Type: Videos

This is an excellent Nova presentation now available for viewing online! The high production qualities, and attention to detail really shine in the mini-documentary on string theory, where it came from, what it means, and how it may solve some very big riddles about our universe. Hosted by Brian Greene, a published physicist with a talent for explaining extremely complex subjects in "plain English", they do an excellent job of walking you through some of the most important discoveries of our time, as well as explaining where we still have holes in out knowledge that string theory may help explain. This is a must watch for any physics fan, string theory may not be completely accurate, but it is potentially a new, and much more accurate way to describe our universe.

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