Physclips: Mechanics with animations and video film clips.

Kinematics and dynamics are presented here in multimedia, at introductory and also at deeper levels. Individual video clips and animations are suitable for use by teachers, while students may use the whole package for self instruction or for reference.

Animations from Physclips require the Flash 6 Plugin. The multimedia modules have animations and film clips and are typically 3-5 Mb. The much smaller HTML versions have only text and images. (If your connection is slow, you might read some of the background links while the modules load.)

Related Links for each module:-

1. Introduction

• What is Physclips? What's it for? How can I use it?

2. Constant Acceleration

Related Links

• A simple introduction to calculus: Differentials and integrals
• Graphs, errors, significant figures, dimensions and units
• Vectors

3. Projectiles

Related Links

• Background material for projectiles
• Graphs, errors, dimensions and units
• The monkey and the hunter

4. Circular Motion

Related Links

• Background material for circular motion
• Vectors
• A simple introduction to calculus: Differentials and integrals

5. Simple Harmonic Motion

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• Background material for simple harmonic motion
• More about chladni patterns
• AC circuits
• What is a sound spectrum?

6. Newton's laws

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• Background material for Newton's laws.
• Inertial frames and the Foucault pendulum.
• What are coriolis forces?
• Other ways of writing Newton's laws
• Other units of force.
• Frames of reference for Newton's laws -- Galilean relativity.
• Frames of reference for Newton's and Maxwell's laws -- Einstein's relativity.

Related Links

• Wheels and rolling

9. Centre of mass

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10. Momentum

• Momentum, Newton's laws and collisions
• Collision examples and calculations
• Collisions in two dimensions

11. Rotation

Related Links

• Wheels and rolling

12. Gravity (available mid 2008)

• Background material on gravity