Animations created by David M. Harrison

at the University of Toronto

 

Chaos Animation of Two Bouncing Balls

Three Body Gravitational Problem

Graphing Distance, Velocity and Constant Acceleration

Graphing Velocity With Constant (User Variable) Acceleration

Dropping Two Balls Near the Earth, One With Horizontal Velocity

View a Falling Ball in Different Frames of Reference

Projectile Motion, Variable Height and Angle

Position and Average Velocity Vectors in Projectile Motion

Monkey and Hunter Example

Racing Balls Along Different Paths

Racing Skiers Along Different Paths

Collisions on an Air Track

Newton's Cradle

Hooke's Law

Coordinate System for Circular Motion

Tension and Weight Vectors While Moving in a Vertical Circle

Forces on a Pendulum

Cycloid Path of a Point on a Rolling Disk

Right Hand Rule for a Screw

Angular Velocity Vector

Series of Animations to Explain Curling

Series of Animations Explaining Why a Cat Always Lands on Its Feet

Precession of a Spinning Top

Simple Harmonic Motion, Sine Wave and Circular Motion Tied Together

Simple Harmonic Motion on a Spring and Torsional Harmonic Motion

Damped Harmonic Motion

Driven Simple Oscillator

Coupled Harmonic Oscillators

Comparison of DC Current to Water Flow

Field Lines From a Point Charge

Operation of a Simple Buzzer

Electric Field of an Oscillating Charge

Electric and Magnetic Fields of an Oscillating Charge

Circular Polarization of Electric and Magnetic Fields

Path of a Positively Charged Spinning Object

Path of a Spinning Charge Through a Non-Homogeneous Magnetic Field

Measuring With a Micrometer

Reading a Micrometer

Boyle's Law Using a Piston

Derivative of the Sine Function

Area of a Circle as a Limit

Integration

Scattering Off a Circular Target

Nuclear Decay and Half Life

Pair Production and Annihilation

Interaction of X-Rays With Matter

Reflection From a Mirror Which Can Be Rotated

Reflection and Refraction at a Boundary

Object to Image Relationship With a Lens

Use of an Optical Bench

Time Base on an Oscilloscope 1

Time Base on an Oscilloscope 2

Time Base on an Oscilloscope 3

Voltage Control on an Oscilloscope

Trigger Level on an Oscilloscope

Bohr Model of Hydrogen

Wave Particle Duality of an Electron

Histogram of Double Slit Experiment

Visual of Double Slit Experiment as a Particle and a Wave

Why Michelson-Morley Experiment Works

Time Dilation

Length Contraction

Why Length Contraction is Invisible

Deriving Simultaneity

Twin Paradox

Foucault Pendulum and Mach's Principle

The Advance of Planetary Perihelion

Visualization of How Beats Are Created

Visualization of Doppler Effect

Visualization of How a Tuning Forks Produces Sound

Visualization of a Longitudinal Wave

Introduction to the Physics of Music

Visualization of Adding Two Vectors

Visualization of Adding Three Vectors

Visualization of Subtracting Two Vectors

Visualization of Adding Vectors by Components

Use of Unit Vectors

How The Dot Product Works

Visualization of the Cross Product

Traveling Wave

Reflection of Waves From a Barrier

Reflection of Waves From Two Barriers

Standing Waves With Nodes at the Ends

Standing Waves With a Node at One End