Prof. C. Vijayan, Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras (Click to see website)

Animations/Simulations/Videos for UG Physics

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 Special: Physics Demo by Prof. Sow Chorng Haur, NUS,in 2016
 

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Physics Resources

Right-click on each link below

Some of these are video files and need some video player to be installed

               a) The nonlinear pendulum (takes time, wait and see)

           b) Cirular motion

           c)  Dynamics in 3D

          d) Understanding gradient

           e) Cylindrical Polar Coordinates video 

           f) Cylindrical and Spherical Polar Cooridnates

       g) Coriolis force: animation Britannica(SWF file, use browser or flash player to open)

          h) Textbook material on Phase trajectories

         i) Kepler orbits

         j) Textbook material on Planetary motion

         k) Bound and closed orbits

         l)  Flux, divergence, continuity

         j)  Notes on curl 

       k)  Notes on fluid dynamics 

       l)  Who is afraid of Vector Calculus?  Understanding Gradient and Divergence: Physics of Mountains and Fountains!

 

     Interactive Animations

You need to install the easy and free software 'Geogebra' version 5.0 on your computer to see these. (may not work well with other versions https://www.geogebra.org/ Install it and download these .ggb files. Only then you can  run the animations  below; also  explore, modify  and even create more such animations. 
Right-click on each link to download

use the slider bars in the animation to change parameters

          (a) Circular              

         (b) Helical3D   

          (c) Gradient   

          (d) Plot vector fields and equipotentials

          (e) Play with a 'nonlinear' pendulum! 

           (f) Underdamped oscillator 

           (g) Critical damping 

           (h) Play with orbits!

              

Send your comments/criticism/suggestions on this site to cvijayan(at)iitm.ac.in

 

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