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Amusement Park Physics
How do physics laws affect amusement park ride design? design your own roller coaster and experiment with bumper car collisions.
www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics |
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An introduction to physics - Mechanics
An introduction to classical mechanics. suitable for students who are beginning the subject.
www.mcasco.com/p1intro.html |
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Block and Tackle
Colorful illustrated tutorial shows how a block and tackle (as well as levers and gears) works.
www.howstuffworks.com/pulley.htm |
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Central Forces with Java
A java applet to simulate orbits in four different central forces: gravity , yukawa , 1/r^4 and black holes
www.astro.queensu.ca/~musgrave/cforce |
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Chaotic Systems
A brief overview of chaos theory and applications in classical mechanics.
dept.physics.upenn.edu/courses/gladney/mathphys/subsection3_2_5.html |
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Classical Mechanics on About. com
Articles with practical advice and solutions for lots of topical problems.
physics.about.com/cs/mechanics |
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Classical Mechanics on Wikipedia
Free online encyclopedia with description of the theory and history of classical mechanics.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_mechanics |
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Derivation of basic gyroscope formula
Web page contains intuitive and clear , simple and intuitive derivation of gyroscope effect’s formula.
www.andrijar.com/gyroscope/gyroscope.htm |
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Freshman Problems in Mechanics
Links to various problem sets relating to 1 and 2 dimensional kinematics. easy mechanics problems and solutions.
zebu.uoregon.edu/~dmason/probs/mech.html |
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Gravity
If you want to learn about gravity come here.
www.angelfire.com/geek/alphabeta |
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Gyroscope
Graphics , related links and a video combine to show you how gyroscopes work.
www.howstuffworks.com/gyroscope.htm |
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How a Helium Balloon Works
Explanation of lifting capabilities of helium , hydrogen and hot air balloons , from how stuff works.
www.howstuffworks.com/helium.htm |
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Kepler's Laws
Summary of kepler's three laws.
www.go.ednet.ns.ca/~larry/orbits/kepler.html |
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Kepler's Laws
Article in the platonic realms. gives an novice's overview of kepler's laws.
www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/articles/kepler/index.asp |
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On a general Method of expressing the Paths of Light, and of the Planets, by the Coefficients of a Characteristic Function
An original paper by william rowan hamilton , dated 1833.
www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Hamilton/LightPlanets/LightPlanets.html |
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