Physics simulations

The Physics Education Technology (PhET) project is an ongoing effort to provide an extensive suite of simulations for teaching and learning physics and to make these resources both freely available from the PhET website (http://phet.colorado.edu/ ) and easy to incorporate into classrooms. The simulations are animated, interactive, and game-like environments in which students learn through exploration. In these sims, the connections between real life phenomena and the underlying science are emphasised and the visual and conceptual models of expert physicists are hopefully made accessible to students.