Physics Flash Animations
by Don Ion (ion@sbcc.edu)
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Astronomy:
Length of
Earth's Day and Night (371KB)
Mechanics:
example:
Atwood's Inclined Plane (18.8KB)
Oscilations and Waves:
Simple Harmonic
Motion
Heat engines:
The
2 Stroke Engine (17.0KB)
The
4 Stroke Engine (25.4KB)
The
Stirling Engine (43.0KB)
The
Carnot Cycle
Optics:
Electric field around an Oscillating Charge
Refraction
Object
Image Relationships for a Convex Lens (22.8KB)
Ray Construction for Concave Mirrors
Ray Construction for Convex Lenses
Ray Construction for Concave Lenses
example:
Virtual Object for a Two Convex Lens System (7.00KB)
Thin Film Interference 1
Double Slit Interference
Phasors
Double
slit phasors
Multislit phasors
Diffraction1
Quarter
Wave Plate / Circular Polarization
Materials:
The Science of the Silicon Solar Cell
Relativity:
The Michelson-Morley
Experiment
Simultaneity
Time Dilation
Length Contraction
Clock Synchronization
Clock Synchronization in Moving
Reference Frames