Saturday, August 12, 2006

Flash Animations for Physics I'm often amazed at the high quality of free online resources available for education. These animations are extraordinary--worth sampling, even if you are not a physics instructor or student, just to appreciate the fascination of the displays. Textbooks simply can't compete with graphic animations like these. For example, one of the animations (Bunimovich Stadium) to illustrate chaos theory shows the pathways of two balls, a red and a blue, as they bounce about within a stadium--amazing. The site also includes a tutorial on using Flash to do physics animations. The animations were created by David Harrison at the University of Toronto Dept. of  Physics and are available under a creative commons license. (Thanks to Ray Schroeder's Educational Technology for this reference.) _____JH ______ 8:31:04 AM    COMMENT []