Moti su traiettorie curvilinee: moto parabolico e moto circolare
Projectile Motion: Blast a Buick out of a cannon! Learn about projectile motion by firing various objects. Set the angle, initial speed, and mass. Add air resistance. Make a game out of this simulation by trying to hit a target.
Circular Motion is one of the fundamental building blocks for understanding the physical world because it is so common. This interactive lets you examine the basic ideas of kinematics and forces for objects moving in circular motion.
Frictional Forces and Circular Motion. The Banked Curve applet is designed to simulate a racecar traveling around a track in order to study inertia, centripetal force, and the impact of such variables as the incline of the track, velocity of the car, and friction.
Coriolis Force, an artifact of the earth's rotation. Sito di meteorologia, in inglese. Da un collegamento in fondo a questa pagina è possibile vedere un breve filmato che mostra gli effetti della forza di Coriolis su una piattaforma rotante.
Epicycles Demo: demonstrates that the heliocentric and geocentric models are equivalent for predictive purposes when limited to circular orbits; one can watch the same system in motion with different bodies held in fixed position.
Stellarium è un planetario gratuito Open Source che mostra un cielo realistico proprio come si vedrebbe a occhio nudo, con un binocolo o un telescopio. Anche in versione portabile.
Gravity and Orbits. Move the sun, earth, moon and space station to see how it affects their gravitational forces and orbital paths. Visualize the sizes and distances between different heavenly bodies, and turn off gravity to see what would happen without it!
My Solar System. Build your own system of heavenly bodies and watch the gravitational ballet. With this orbit simulator, you can set initial positions, velocities, and masses of 2, 3, or 4 bodies, and then see them orbit each other.
