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Temperature and Absolute Zero
When an object feels hot, the atoms inside it are moving fast in random directions, and when it feels cold, they are moving slowly and when it gets cold enough they stop moving - this is called ...
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Refraction of Light Demonstration Applet
A Java applet showing moving light waves moving from one medium to another. Refractive indices and angle of incidence can be altered. Very useful for illustrating mechanism of refraction at a basic ...
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Moving Point source: Doppler effect and shock wave
An animation to illustrate the propagation of sound waves from a moving source. You can modify the wave speed, the source speed and wavelength.
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Cyclotron
The cyclotron was one of the earliest types of particle accelerators, and is still used as the first stage of some large multi-stage particle accelerators. It makes use of the magnetic force on a ...
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Angular momentum and area for a particle moving in a straight line
An animation to illustrate that a particle moving in a straight line conserves angular momentum and obeys Kepler's second law
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Time Dilation
A clock in a moving frame will be seen to be running slow, or "dilated" according to the Lorentz transformation.
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Squealing Wall
An often used demo using LASER light to produce an interference pattern by reflection off a moving surface.
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Generator Animation
An interactive animated applet which shows how AC and DC can be generated from a moving coil in a magnetic field
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Moving Machines
A worksheet for younger pupils. It describes a short activity to investigate the effect that the position of the fulcrum has on a see-saw.
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Why is the moon moving away from the earth?
An interesting piece explaining how the moon's motion, tides and the earth's rotation are linked.
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