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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.
See what you can never see in nature!
The most exiting feature of Virtual Physics is that you can perform and observe many experiments 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.
The program consists of 13 modules covering:
Diffraction
Dynamics
Electrostatics
Gravity
Kepler Laws
Kinematics
Kirchhoff Laws
Optics
Oscillations
Projectiles
Thermodynamics
Vectors
Waves
Preparing an experiment in a virtual laboratory you can start with the sample settings supplied with the program or set the parameters from scratches
Then you can run the simulations and observe the result in the windows. or - in some modules - also in full screen mode.
In the Gravity module, for example, you can investigate gravitational interactions of celestial bodies. You can define two, three or more objects like stars, planets, comets, space crafts etc.
The predefined samples will give you the whole Solar system at the state on Jan 1st, 2000, gravity catapults, the influence of Jupiter on the orbits of comets, the wobbling of stars caused by massive planets in tight orbits (one of the main methods of discovering extrasolar planets) etc. |
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