California Institute of Technology
Magnet Lab: Caltech Physics Applets
Although specifically designed for physics students at Caltech, anyone interested in learning more about electricity, magnetism or various other physical phenomena can benefit by exploring these interactive applets. A circuit tutorial...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Forces: Moving Charges in Magnetic Fields
Learners investigate moving charges in magnetic fields. Some topics explored in the activities are Lorentz force, motion of a charge, and magnetic fields. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, online textbook chapters,...
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Vector Addition Model
This Java applet simulation explores vector addition of two vectors in two dimensions. Given the magnitude and direction, students must determine the vector components.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Mass Spectrometry: How to Weigh an Atom
It's hard enough to weigh something as itty bitty as atoms or molecules. Factor in that they're careening by faster than Jeff Gordon on steroids, and you get an idea what scientists are up against. Using comet particles from NASA's...
Davidson College
Davidson College: Electronic Structure of Coordination Compounds
A list of five virtual chemistry topics with Java applets on the electronic structure of coordination compounds. Covers crystal field theory, CFT energy level splitting, color in gems, the spectrochemical series, and ligand properties.
Other
Matter Project: What Is Bond Energy?
Provides a Java applet that shows the change in energy of a bonded and a non-bonded atom.
Davidson College
Davidson College: Sizes of Atomic Orbitals
Using a Java applet, sets of atomic orbitals are compared with different quantum numbers in order to compare the orbital sizes.
Harvard University
Chandra X Ray Observatory Center: X Ray Pulsar
X-ray pulsars are explained. Features a Java applet that simulates a pulsar and allows the viewer to control the rotational speed.
Florida State University
Florida State University: Powers of Ten
This webpage from the Florida State University offers an applet with succeeding images, each "10 times bigger or smaller than the one preceding or following it," as a demonstration of exponential notation.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College: Chem Lab: Calorimetry 1 Enthalpy of Formation of Mg O
In this lab experiment students are asked to determine the standard molar enthalpy of formation of magnesium oxide, MgO. Students are asked to use Hess's Law and the enthalpy changes of several other solution reactions during this...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Simulating the Effect of Sample Size on Sampling Distribution of the Mean
Using a Java simulation tool, learners investigate how sample size is related to the amount of variability one sees in the sampling distribution of the mean. Increasing the sample size decreases the variability. Students are assigned...
Analyze Math
Analyze Math: Reflection Across a Line
Reflect any point, line segment, triangle, or any other figure over one or two lines using this dynamic applet. Points and lines are entered by point-and-click rather than by typing equations or ordered pairs. A very neat exercise to...