Building My Physics Intuition: Seeking Good Simulations

[normalmode25]

TL;DR Summary: Seeking good simulations to build my intuition

Hi everyone,

I am currently teaching myself classical mechanics, and am 3/4 of the way through "Vibrations and Waves," a textbook from 1971 which was used in the MIT course.

It's going okay - I feel like I have a decent grasp of the core concepts, and I've been doing a decent number of the problems, so that helps. I feel like I can get a good understanding of university level physics even though I am not studying it formally.

One thing, however, that I do believe I am missing out on through my informal study is simulations. I know that University of Colorado produces a few good free ones. Can anyone recommend other good simulations which are relevant for an introductory, university-level waves course?

Thanks!

 

[kuruman]

Try the open source physics simulations in Compadre. You must be able to run Java.

 

[Spinnor]

It could not hurt to sit in on some MIT intro courses from the past (via YouTube). See,



The series, skip the introduction for now,



From a YouTube search, "Vibrations and Waves in PHYSICS classroom demonstrations"

https://www.youtube.com/results?sea...and+Waves+in+PHYSICS+classroom+demonstrations

 

[robphy]

https://falstad.com/mathphysics.html

https://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/HTML5/