Virtual Physics
See what you can never see in nature!
Virtual physics is the collection of programs simulating physical phenomena. They can be used as demonstration tools at school or for individual studies and experiments at home.
The most exiting feature of Virtual Physics is that you can perform experiments and observe many phenomena you can never see either in nature or in the school laboratory, eg. stars moving on their orbits or the motion of the molecules of gas.
Preparing an experiment in a virtual laboratory you can start with the sample settings supplied with the program or set the parameters from scratches
The program consists of 13 modules:
- Diffraction
- Dynamics
- Electrostatics
- Gravity
- Kepler Laws
- Kinematics
- Kirchhoff Laws
- Optics
- Oscillations
- Projectiles
- Thermodynamics
- Vectors
- Waves
Gravity - full screen simulation. After setting all the initial parameters in a settings window you can run the simulation in full screen mode. You can still modify some parameters in a small window in the corner.
Gravity - settings window. You can investigate gravitational interactions of celestial bodies. You can define two, three or more objects like stars, planets, comets, black holes, space crafts etc.
Kepler Laws. This module simulates orbits of planets, comets or other objects in the Solar System according to geometric Kepler’s Laws in opposition to Newton’s Laws in the Gravity module.
Thermodynamics. With this module you can observe the motions and interactions of gas particles in one or two rooms. You can also see the Brown’s motions of one particle.
Electrostatics. With this module you can see what the electric field generated by a set of static charges looks like. You can switch between strength and potential visualization.
Waves. With this module, you can investigate waves and their interference patterns. You can even hear the sound optionally if you chose appropriate frequency, or frequency multiplier.
Diffraction. With this module you can observe diffraction of light waves passing through the slits. You can set the number of slits and the distance between them.
Vectors. This module can help you in understanding the operations of adding and subtracting many vectors by slow animation of the operations.
Kirchhoff. This module can help you in developing intuitions about basic notions that describe electric current as well as in understanding properties of simple electric circuits.