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Physics Applets

Walter Fendt Applets

http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/

A useful collection of applets for physics teaching.

Applets by CKNg

http://ngsir.netfirms.com/englishVersion.htm

Useful applets from a Hong Kong physics teacher. 

Interactive Java Tutorials

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/

Great resources from the Molecular Expressions Website.

Physics 2000

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets/

These are the some of the more popular and fun applets in Physics 2000.

The Interactive Library

http://www.edinformatics.com/il/il_physics.htm

The Interactive Library is about "real interactivity".  The database contains hundreds of activities that make use of sophisticated java and shockwave programs.

Fowler's Physics Applets

http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/home.html

Newton’s Cannon, Rutherford scattering and more great applets from Michael Fowler at the University of Virginia.

General Applets

http://surendranath.tripod.com/Applets.html

Java applets on various topics in physics.

University of Oregon Physics Applets

http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/

Applets on astrophysics, mechanics, energy and heat.

Fun @ Learning Physics

http://thorin.adnc.com/~topquark/fun/fun.html

This site contains a colourfully illustrated electronic textbook, Java applets for interactive simulations of dynamical processes, non-interactive movies illustrating other topics and a multiple-choice tutorial.

Optics Bench

http://webphysics.davidson.edu/alumni/MiLee/java/Final_Optics/optics.htm

Simulated optics can be carried out here.

CERN LEP Applet

http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/masterclass/Acc_sim2/simulator.html

Realistic simulation of the collision of electrons and positrons in the LEP at CERN.

Powers of Ten Applet

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth.  Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude to reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida.  After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

Quark Applet

http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/q/q.htm

Put the correct combination of quarks and/or antiquarks together to make the resulting hadron.

Physlets

http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Applets/Applets.html

Physics Applets, are small flexible Java applets designed for science education.