If your math / physics geek tendencies have not been properly addressed lately, you may want to have a look at these physics related flash animations. They run from basic kinematics through to relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos theory.
This method for evaluating the area of a circle as a limit is very intuitive. Lorenz attractors continue to confuse me, despite Wikipedia.
Author: Milan
In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. Between 2005 and 2007 I completed an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford. I worked for five years for the Canadian federal government, including completing the Accelerated Economist Training Program, and then completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto in 2023.
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Some of these are great.
Bunimovich Stadium really illustrates how small differences in initial conditions can have big effects.
The 3 body gravitational problem is very abstract and pretty. Try it with four planets and suns of quite different masses.
This Doppler Wave applet makes it easy to understand the physics of sonic booms.
Try setting it to 75, then 80, then 85. 80 is effectively the speed of sound in this system.
Here is a similar sort of site:
Physics Education Technology Project (PhET)
Also described here
See also:
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