Java Demonstrations

 

University of Iowa Bookmarked Sites

Quantum Mechanics:    

Wave Tank:

  • Waves - Various wave interference phenomena.
  • Project CLAW - Flash Simulations of Wave-like Behavior.

Math and Physics:

Space Physics:

Bohr Atoms:

Rutherford Scattering:

Group and Phase Velocity:

Newton's Cannon:

E & M Field Waves

Free Circuit Simulators

XYZ of Oscilloscopes

  • Go to Youtube and search "XYZ of Oscilloscopes by Textronix" to get a series of 97 videos.

Resistor Code

Periodic Tables

English, Metric, and SI Units

  • SI Guide - Includes information on the SI itself, its history in the U.S., an SI usage style guide, useful links, SI standards, and SI in several languages other than English.

Double Slit Diffraction

 

General

 

Minerals, Crystals, and Crystal Structure

 

Acoustics

 

Atmospheric Optics

 

Cool Videos

 

Electronics

Circuits Simulator Applet by Paul Falstad

 

Optics Sites

 

Chaos 

  • Bob DeSerio's Work - The Capacity Dimension of the Poincare Section and the Lyaponov Exponents of the attractor are computed.

 

Astronomy Sites

  • 3-D Early Per Worldmian - Run-time animation of a Pangea type super continent world.
  • A Sampling of Hands-On Astronomy Activities. - From Project ASTRO and the resource notebook series.
  • Can Stock Photo - Over 24,000 astronomy related pictures available for purchase or for free. 
  • Barewalls - Extensive collection of astronomy poster and prints.
  • Earth and Moon Viewer. - Astronomy Web site for Earth & Moon Views.
  • Fotosearch. - Fotosearch provides almost 30,000 images including photographs, illustrations, and footage.  Image galleries are free to view and useful for finding examples.
  • FreeArt.com - An extensive collection of free small astronomy posters and prints.  This selection of astronomy work from artists, photographers, and designers from around the world.
  • Go Graph - Go Graph Stock Photography offers over 18 million affordable royalty free stock photos, illustrations, vector clip art and royalty-free footage clips.  The database contains over 35,000 astronomy-related images. 
  • Saturn - On this Web site (which will expand in winter 2004), we'll explore Saturn and its environs, adding new images and information as they become available.
  • Saturn: The Cassini Mission - Scientific Explorations and Adventures with Paul Doherty. Explore the World, Do Experiments. Examine scientific images.
  • University of Oregon Virtual Laboratory - Features applets dealing with astrophysics, energy and environment, mechanics, and thermodynamics.