Is there an interactive physics training software?

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One can find hundreds of free and paid video lectures, articles and (e)books as physics learning materials and probably a few animations, but is there a complete training software to present you the laws of physics, their relations etc with interactive animations and interactive problems guiding and checking the student step-by-step? (I'm mostly interested on classical mechanics)

Judging from how difficult it is to find such training software (for any subject) vs the old-fashioned means, I think the power of interactivity and thus the power of interactive software as training medium is surprisingly, hugely underestimated!

I need to re-learn what I've learned in school decades ago (and never used up until now) but I don't want to spend years again, with inefficient, centuries-old methods. Is there a training physics software representative of our time?

Such a software would be the shortest path for that goal -and not just mine. The required technology exists. Does that specific software exist?
 
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Sum1 said:
One can find hundreds of free and paid video lectures, articles and (e)books as physics learning materials and probably a few animations, but is there a complete training software to present you the laws of physics, their relations etc with interactive animations and interactive problems guiding and checking the student step-by-step? (I'm mostly interested on classical mechanics)

Not that I'm aware of. Probably because what you call "old-fashioned" and "inefficient" happens to be flexible, reliable, and time-tested. Pick up a book, watch some lectures, and then try and do some problems. If you can't do them, that's a built-in feedback mechanism that says you haven't grasped the material.

Physics is difficult enough without being pigeonholed by a software-based platform.