Open Directory - Science: Physics: Classical Mechanics
See also: This category in other languages: - How do physics laws affect amusement park ride design? Design your own roller coaster and experiment with bumper car collisions. - Colorful illustrated tutorial shows how a block and tackle (as well as levers and gears) works. - Free online encyclopedia with description of the theory and history of classical mechanics. - Web page contains a clear, simple and intuitive derivation of this formula. - Links to various problem sets relating to 1 and 2 dimensional kinematics. Easy mechanics problems and solutions. - Provides definitions of gravity. - Graphics, related links and a video combine to show you how gyroscopes work. - Explanation of lifting capabilities of helium, hydrogen and hot air balloons, from How Stuff Works. - Article in the Platonic Realms. Gives a novice's overview of Kepler's laws. - Splung.com provides educative material including distance, displacement, velocity, acceleration, linear motion, circular motion, momentum, Newton's laws of motion, simple harmonic motion, energy, work, power, gravitation, Kepler's laws, satellites and friction. - Interactive visualisation of nonlinear mappings, a Java applet simulating the standard map and the Henon map. - An original paper by William Rowan Hamilton, dated 1833. - Tutorial on this topic. - Kinematics and dynamics are presented in multimedia, at both introductory and deeper levels. Individual video clips and animations are suitable for use by teachers, while students may use the whole package for self instruction or for reference. - Discussion of various forms of rotating motion in which the Coriolis effect plays a part, such as the Foucault pendulum and inertial oscillations. Illustrated with animations. - Rigorous derivation of sound wave equations from a molecular model of an ideal diatomic gas. General solution of the wave equations. Point source radiating in a moving medium. - Symmetry of function. Finding of primitive without integration-summation. Newton's laws of any order. Mechanics of third order. - Separation of motion of centre of mass and rotation about a fixed axis. - Provides several interactive physics simulations such as springs and masses, pendulums, molecules. Objects, mass, gravity, spring stiffness can be modified. - Discusses shape of a soccer ball, spin effects and the motion of projectiles. - Provides some solutions for wave equations. - Group at the Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, undertaking laboratory tests of gravitational and sub-gravitational physics. - Overview of the Lagrange points of the sun-earth-system. Links to a detailed derivation. - A physics safety educational tool.
