Flash Animations for PHYS 1050

Shown here are Flash animations for illustrating Physics content in PHYS 1050. The animations are sorted by chapter and topic. The animations will appear in a separate window.

The Animations

Chapter: Topic	Title	Description/Comment
2-1 to 2-4: 1D Motion	Constant Acceleration	1-dimensional kinematics of a body undergoing constant acceleration. Includes visually integrating the acceleration and velocity graphs, and visually differentiating the position and velocity graphs.	View
3-1: Vectors	Adding 2 Vectors	A simple demonstration of adding 2 vectors graphically. Also demonstrates that vector addition is commutative.	View
3-1: Vectors	Adding 3 Vectors	A simple demonstration of adding 3 vectors graphically. Also demonstrates that vector addition is associative.	View
3-1: Vectors	Subtracting 2 Vectors	A simple demonstration that subtracting 2 vectors graphically is the same as adding the first one to the negative of the second one.	View
3-2: Vectors	Component Addition	A simple demonstration that to add 2 vectors numerically, just add the cartesian components.	View
3-2: Vectors	Unit Vectors	A simple animation of unit vectors and vector addition.	View
3-3: Vectors	Dot Product	A simple demonstration of the relation between the dot product of 2 vectors and the angle between them.	View
4-4: Projectile Motion	Dropping Two Balls Near the Earth's Surface	Two balls falling near the Earth's surface under the influence of gravity. The initial horizontal speed of one of the balls may be varied.	View
4-4: Projectile Motion	Projectile Motion	Firing a projectile when air resistance is negligible. The initial height and angle may be adjusted.	View
4-4: Projectile Motion	Kinematics of Projectile Motion	A visualisation exploration of the kinematics of projectile motion.	View
4-6: Relative Motion	Galilean Relativity	Illustrating Galilean relativity using this example of dropping a ball from the top of the mast of a sailboat.	View
4-4: Projectile Motion	The Monkey and the Hunter	An animation of the classic lecture demonstration.	View

AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, COPYING

These animations were written by David M. Harrison, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto , david.harrison AT utoronto.ca. They are Copyright © 2002 - 2011 David M. Harrison.

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