CCC Physics
Research Sites

To have some mirror fun CLICK HERE and select from the 'new applets' in the middle of the screen.
Click HERE to see a robot working up a sweat making waves (takes a minute or so to load)
How a CD PLAYER WORKS Want to know more about waves? Then click HERE!

The Cosmic Engine

For some excellent notes CLICK HERE

CURRENT TOPIC LINKS

HSC COURSE

Space

An interesting interactive about Galileo's experiments
Projectile motion interactives
Rollercoaster
Slingshot Effect Flashlet
Kepler Flashlet
GREAT SITE for the space topic

Michelson-Morley Experiment Flashlet
A clever animated show on relativity
Easy to watch explanation of relativity from UNSW
Lightclock Flashlet
Relativity - Time Dilation discussion/animation
Relativity - Time Dilation spaceship travel
Relativity - Relativistic length contraction
Relativity of Simultaneity
Length contraction is invisible!
Relativity - Time Dilation animation
Relativity - Twins Paradox

Motors and Generators

The magnetic field around a conductor

The Lorentz force (motor effect)

If you'd like to see a DC motor animation then click HERE (try changing the parameters)
What about a GENERATOR ANIMATION (try changing the parameters)
Electromagnetic Induction and Eddy Currents
A lesson on Eddy Currents
Energy losses in a transformer
Here's one of Faraday's experiments
How a SPEAKER WORKS
This one demonstrates how a transformer changes the voltage
Choose electricity from the menu at the top of LIVE THE PHYSICS when you get in -then TRY THE INTERACTIVE TEST.
There's more stuff on motors if you click HERE!

From Ideas to Implementation

To draw some electric field lines: CLICK HERE or HERE
To review motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field: CLICK HERE
THIS SITE has some very good interactives for charged particle motion in fields,
Thomson's e/m experiment, photoelectric effect, quantum physics and the Millikan oil drop experiment.
Crookes tube simulation nice and simple
Excellent! Choose Einstein's Legacy: TV Screens, Laptop Screens or Applet thumbnails for all sorts of good stuff here!
The 20th Century part of this site gives info on Cathode rays
A simple-to-use animation which demonstrates the photoelectric effect

A NICE, SIMPLE SOLAR CELL EXPLANATION CAN BE FOUND HERE
(Choose 'See the flash movie on photovoltaic cells')
Some good animations of electron hole flow

For band structures of conductors, semiconductors and insulators, this animated tutorial is quite good.
How superconductors work
Useful information on resistance and superconductivity
(mainly the first animation on conductivity and a bit at the end about superconductors)
Most useful information on SUPERCONDUCTORS
Superconductors are beautiful!

STILL WANT MORE? Lots more links can be found in research site 19 above...

Astrophysics

For some excellent notes CLICK HERE

Build your own star
Prac 14.2 The Australian Telescope Compact Array
Prac 15.1 Accessing Star Data
Prac 16.1 Eclipsing Binaries
Prac 16.2 Spectroscopic Binaries
Prac 17.1 Researching Stellar Objects

Interesting site on Star Life Cycles