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Electricity and Magnetism demonstrations
A vast number of lecture demonstrations which cover a wide area.

Foil Simulation Applet
A complicated simulation tool showing how a planes wing works and the airflows over a number of surfaces.

Solenoid
A long straight coil of wire can be used to generate a nearly uniform magnetic field similar to that of a bar magnet. Such coils, called solenoids, have an enormous number of practical applications.

Nuclear Physics Applications
A very basic guide from the ThinkQuest competition covering a number of topics. Has no mathematics but good for reactor diagrams and the medicine topic covers treatments.

Every tornado across the United States since 1980
Explore tornado stats by year from the number of tornadoes, injuries, fatalities and amount of damage.


A Short History of Vacuum Terminology and Technology
A description of the relevant work of a number of scientists who are famous for work relating to gases or vacuums.

Magic Factory
Includes a number of games about light and colour - reflection, spectrum, speed of light, optical illusions and refraction. Teachers notes available.

Transformer
An adjustable picture of a transformer on which you can vary input voltage and the number of turns on each coil. Useful description of mutual inductance. Great for revision, or teaching without the ...

Changing Illusions
Certain patterns confuse your eyes and brain, causing you to misjudge the size of a circle, or the length of a line. This site contains shockwave demonstrations of a number of optical illusions.


How does GPS work?
More information on how GPS satellites calculate your location, from using accurate atomic clocks to ensuring enough coverage.