MERLOT Materials

WebTOP is a 3D interactive computer graphics system that simulates and visualizes optical phenomena. Instructors can use... see more

This web site contains a series of online presentations of physics topics that include videos, animations, and tutorial... see more

This page links to collections of physics problems created for teachers and education researchers by the University of... see more

This web site contains quantitative homework problems where students are helped through successive questions. The goal is... see more

This tutorial introduces the physics behind elementary particle research through interactive simulations, virtual... see more

The Assessing-to-Learn Physics (A2L) web site contains a library of questions and problems for classroom use. Questions... see more

This web site contains resources for an introductory graduate Solid State course. It contains lecture notes, background... see more

This course web site is a collaboration between engineering and art students demonstrating the intricacies of fluid... see more

This web site from the AIP Center for the History of Physics gives a history of the science of cosmology, and the... see more

This web page contains a series of animations and simulations related to magnetostatics. Topics include the magnetic... see more

This web page contains a series of animations and simulations related to Electrostatics. Topics include the fields and... see more

This web page contains a series of animations and simulations related to vector fields and vector calculus. Topics... see more

This web page contains a series of animations and simulations related to Faraday's Law. It is part of the MIT TEAL... see more

This flash simulation demonstrates the addition of vectors. An apparently unlimited number of vectors can be displayed... see more

This online Electromagnetism textbook starts with Maxwell's laws and gives a concise introduction to electromagnetic... see more

This extensive collection of scripted physlets covers introductory physics materials from kinematics through electricity... see more

This applet illustrates the propagation of electromagnetic fields from a transmitter to a receiver

This applet simulates some basic experiments in magnetism and magnetic induction.

This web tutorial provides an online text with imbedded applets for a statistical physics course. It uses a macroscopic,... see more

This comprehensive website on thermodynamics features an extensive set of “daemons”, thermodynamic calculators that can... see more

This "open source" project is designed to advance the teaching of statistical physics. It includes a collection of java... see more

This applet shows the results of a Kronig-Penney model of a crystal in 1D. Different periodic potentials are available... see more

This simulation shows states in a hard walled, circular quantum well in 2D. Linear combinations of energy eigenstates can... see more

This java applet displays the molecular wave functions (molecular orbitals) of the hydrogen molecular ion (H2+) in 3-D.... see more