Welcome to SimPhysics, a collection of 50 games with over 400 levels to help you deeply engage
with the physics behind rollercoasters, cannons, cars, cameras, lenses, mirrors, charges, magnets, electricity, free body diagrams, waves,
tires, helicopter blades, swings, gravitation, friction, towing and more!
Each game invites the player to tackle new challenges and figure things out. Whether
it is helping an eskimo get home or firing cannons to hit targets or playing ice-hockey with electric charges, students will have
plenty of opportunities to exercise their creativity, figure out what works and what doesn’t and build confidence in their abilities.
While the students are engaged in hands-on learning, SimPhysics tracks their interactions and allows teachers to see in real time how
the students are progressing.
SimPhysics was created by a team of engineers and physics
teachers. Our California based engineering team has spent over a decade building simulations for companies like Boeing, Toyota, GM and
Porsche. Our team of teachers has collectively spent many decades in classrooms in Massachusetts, California, New York, New Jersey, Iowa,
Texas and Mexico teaching physics to students ranging from elementary school to college level. Enjoy this free app and watch for future
updates as we add more insightful games.
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Understand the variables that make a cheerleading Basket Toss.
Create different pulses on a rope of the wave motion.
Use wave motion and superposition to pop bubbles.
Light a bulb by moving magnetic fields.
Draw free body diagrams for different scenarios and check if your diagram is correct.
Learn how to control the rotational motion of different types of the disks.
Fire a cannon to make the cannonball trace a circular orbit around the Earth.
Figure out the equation that governs the orbit of the Earth around the sun.
Find the forces that will keep the body in equilibrium.
Find the forces that will keep the body in equilibrium.
Control the rotational motion of a spinning tire with forces.
Visualize torque as a vector cross product while spinning a tire.
Find out what type of images are produced with a flat mirror.
A car is stuck in a ditch! Use power to tow the car out.
Find out how velocity depends on the observer’s frame of reference.
Learn how angular,linear speed & radius are related in roundabout.
Relocate the center of mass to match the target.
Play ice hockey with charges and learn about electric fields.
Learn how acceleration affects motion of a moving sled.
Understand the concept of vectors with displacement.
Discover how charged particles interact with one another under Coulomb’s Law.
Observe how different charge particles create different field lines.
Understand the invisible force of friction in this simulation!
Help Tommy escape the dungeon by understanding speed and time!
Try your skills in this virtual ice hockey arena and learn about centripetal force.
Control the cannon and observe its projectile motion as it travels in the air.
Go inside with a camera circuit to see what roles the different circuit elements play.
The current in a resistor is just like the water flow in a pipe. Let’s see this analogy in action!
Find out how a swing moves back and forth. Would it work the same way on the moon?
Apply dynamic forces to drive spring-mass system oscillations.
Synchronize a pendulum to a spring-mass system.
Discover the effects of forces applied on a spinning helicopter blade.
Sketch a velocity versus time graph from a given position versus time graph.
Velocity-Time Graph 2
Sketch a position versus time graph for constant velocity to match a given animation.
Sketch a velocity versus time graph for uniform acceleration to match a given animation.
Find out what type of images are produced with a concave mirror.
Find out what type of images are produced with a convex mirror.
Find out what type of images are produced with a concave lens.
Find out what type of images are produced with a convex lens.
Collisions are commonplace in our world. Discover the numbers at work when cars collide.
Put Newton’s third law to the real test in this simulation of Joey pulling a heavy cart.
Learn how to draw a free-body diagram of forces.
Study the oscillation of a spring-mass system.
Explore the intimate connection between simple harmonic motion and circular motion.
Control the rotational motion of a spinning tire with forces.
Spin a tire to give it angular momentum.
Keep the weights from breaking by balancing them on the beam.
Relocate the center of mass to match the target.
Get the particles into the goals by controlling them witn your finger.
Learn how to control the rotational motion of particles.
Learn how to control the rotational motion of different types of disks.
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