Saturday, 28 April 2012

Physics Animations

Here are some Physics applets to play with to prepare for Ideas to Implementation and Quanta to Quarks.

They are presented in chronological order for the course:

IDEAS TO IMPLEMENTATION

1) Revise what an EM wave is here

2) Learn about standing waves - important for Hertz's experiment -  here

3) Learn about blackbody radition by clicking the image below:

Blackbody Spectrum
Click to Run

4) To learn about the photoelectric effect click here and/or on the image below:

Photoelectric Effect
Click to Run

5) Learn more about wave interference here and/or by clicking on the image below:

Wave Interference
Click to Run

QUANTA TO QUARKS

1) Learn about Rutherfords alpha scatteirng experiment by clicking on the image below:

Rutherford Scattering
Click to Run

2) Learn about Bohr's model of hydrogen by clicking here

3) Learn about further models of hydrogen by clicking the image below:

Models of the Hydrogen Atom
Click to Run

4) Learn about the Davisson-Germer experiment by clicking the image below:

Davisson-Germer: Electron Diffraction
Click to Run

5) Learn about alpha decay by clicking the image below:

Alpha Decay
Click to Run

6) Learn about beta decay by clicking the image below:

Beta Decay
Click to Run

7) Learn about nuclear fission by clicking the image below:

Nuclear Fission
Click to Run

On the topic of physics animations and games - Minecraft is amazingly cool retro-feel game. I wrote it off as garbage on first appearance but about 100 hours later - I can verify that it is fun and addictive.



What a feeling to be tunnelling deep into the Earth, carefully making my way past a lava pool, and finding my first diamond ore. It was right up there with defeating my first Enderman, getting my first Blaze Rod and killing a Ghast with its own fireball...


They are even making Minecraft LEGO!!!



On the topic of awesome games - a new level of Kingdom Rush has JUST been released on iTunes!