Category Archives: Physics

Maths and physics visualizations

Lucas Vieira Barbosa: “Below is a mostly comprehensive gallery of all images — illustrations, diagrams and animations — that I have created for Wikipedia over the years, some of which have been selected as featured pictures, or even picture of the day. As you’ll probably notice, they’re mostly related to physics and mathematics, which are my main areas of interest.”

See for example the sine curve drawing process, cosine, sine and the unit circle, coupled oscillators. I often use these in my lessons, but have usually drawn them on the (chalk)board. My school is getting interactive whiteboards in more classrooms now, so these animations will come in very handy.

Matt Henderson publishes his animations on his Math and Science Blog matthen. Did you know that The focus of a rolling parabola traces out a catenary, the curve of a hanging chain held by its ends?

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Richard shared a photon with you!

MetaFilter: Let’s draw Feynman diagrams! (Part 1 of 20) You do not need to know any fancy-schmancy math or physics to do this! That’s right. I know a lot of people are intimidated by physics: don’t be! Today there will be no equations, just non-threatening squiggly lines. Even school children can learn how to draw Feynman diagrams (and, I hope, some cool science). Particle physics: fun for the whole family.
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Fly me to the moon

Apollo 17 – The Last Mission to the Moon
“A real-time journey through the Apollo 17 mission” – over 300 hours of audio, 22 hours of video, and 4,200 photos. You can start at one minute to launch or follow in real-time 43 years later to the second.

Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA’s Apollo program, launching on December 7th, 1972 and landing on Earth on December 19, 1972.

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