Exploration of Physics

Comprehensive software library of physics simulations and labs covering a full year of introductory physics – Mechanics, Waves, Heat, Fluids, Optics, and Electricity & Magnetism. Adopted by over 1500 schools, Exploration of Physics: Simulation Library Vol. I has earned the reputation of being the most comprehensive and in-depth physics simulation software package available! The 64 highly interactive stand-alone simulations and labs cover a full year of introductory physics – mechanics, waves, heat, fluids, electricity & magnetism, and optics are all given extensive treatment. The software program utilizes a simulated lab approach allowing students to perform in-depth investigations. Each simulation employs its own powerful engine that accurately recreates the physical world. Experimental parameters are easily manipulated using an assortment of slider controls; physical behaviors are brought to life using animated graphics that respond to user input; and physical quantities are displayed using digital readouts, graphs, and histograms. Each simulation has a readily accessible help screen providing information on using the simulation, along with a discussion of the underlying physics principles. The vast collection of simulations and labs may be used in a variety of ways: (1) as an instructor lecture aid for demonstration purposes in front of the classroom, (2) for student use as a computer-based lab activity. Exploration of Physics simulations can be used to introduce a physics concept, or serve nicely to reinforce and extend a lab (involving apparatus) that has already been performed. The ready-to-run simulations and highly intuitive interface allows first time users to immediately use the simulations and begin exploring with no preliminary time investment – essentially providing a ready-to-go lab experience. New Features in version 3.0 15 New Exciting Simulations Higher Screen Resolution - 1024 x 768 Runs Natively on Mac OS X		Position, Velocity, Acceleration: Having input various accelerations over four separate regions, students link the animated motion to the motion graphs.
		Standing Waves: Students explore which frequencies produce standing waves in both open and closed tubes of a selected length.
		Microscopic Heat: After selecting the initial energy for a variety of atoms, students study the concept of statistical probability and heat transfer.
		Resistive Circuits: Students can investigate a variety of basic circuits with variable resistors hooked in parallel, series, and a combination of the two.

Simulations Contained in Vol. I:
Mechanics Position, Velocity, Accel Vector Properties Free Fall Laboratory Projectile Motion Force Table Inclined Plane Connected Masses on Two Inclines Centripetal Force Gravitational Orbits Cavendish Experiment Center of Mass Air Track 2D Collisions Basic Torque Spring & Pendulum Damped Oscillator Two Mass Oscillator 2D Oscillator Heat Microscopic Heat Thermal Conduction Calorimetry Gas Flow 1st Law Thermodynamics Ideal Gas Adiabatic/Isothermal Compression Carnot Cycle	Waves Wave Addition Waves on a Rope Standing Waves Interference Patterns Thin Film Interference Multiple-Slit Interference Resolution: Diffraction at a Circular Aperture Intensity of Sound Tone Beats Doppler Shift 1 Doppler Shift 2 Lissajous Figures Optics Color Addition Color Subtraction Basic Prism Snell’s Law Lenses Fermat’s Principle Polarization	Electricity & Magnetism Coulomb Forces Electric Fields Magnetic Fields Trajectory in E & B Fields Cathode-Ray Tube Lenz’s Law Motion of Charge Carriers through Conducting Wire Capacitor Properties Resistive Circuits Capacitor Circuits RC Circuits Fluids Density Lab Buoyancy Lab Pressure & Depth U Tube Bernoulli’s Equation Torricelli’s Law Flow Around a Wing (New in version 3.0 shown in red.)