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Family Profile Record Sheet
In this math instructional activity, students learn real world math applications for budgeting expenses in a simulated family. Kids make a family profile with profession choice and monthly income. Students then fill out detailed budgets...
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Vector Components Model
An interactive java applet model allows students to explore vectors. Students can practice finding the direction and magnitude of a vector given its x and y-components as well as practice finding the x and y-components given a vector's...
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Binomial Coefficient Model
Students explore binomial coefficients through this downloadable java applet. A table and graph is provided.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Circular Well Model
This downloadable java simulation models the 2D energy eigenstates of a particle trapped in a very deep two-dimensional circular well.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Vector Addition Model
This Java applet simulation explores vector addition of two vectors in two dimensions. Given the magnitude and direction, students must determine the vector components.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Scalar Field Gradient Model
Students investigate scalar and vector fields though a downloadable java simulation. The simulation explores the gradient of a scalar field using a numerical approximation to the partial derivatives.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Binomial Distribution Model
This downloadable mathematics java simulation explores the binomial probability distribution model. The probability and number of trials can be changed to see the effect on the distribution model.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Uniform Spherical Distribution
The java simulation demonstrates methods for picking a random point on a sphere. Both the incorrect method of a uniform random distribution as well as the correct weighted distribution are shown.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Random Number Generator Model
This downloadable java simulation is an interactive linear congruent random number generator model. Students use paper and pencil to calculate the first few terms and then use the generator to check their calculations.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Harmonics and Fourier Series
The downloadable interactive java simulation displays the sum of harmonics through a Fourier series to yield a new wave.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Special Functions Model
This downloadable java simulation shows a variety of special functions. Functions included are Legendre polynomials, Chebyshev polynomials, and Bessel functions.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Special Relativity on Rotated Graph Paper Model
A representation of Minkowski spacetime diagrams using graph paper that is rotated, showing the world lines of three stationary observers with light clocks.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Minkowski Diagram Model
Simulation examining simultaneity and causality in special relativity by manipulating the space and time coordinates of one or two events.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Lorenz Attractor Periodic Orbits
Simulation of a Lorenz attractor which is shaped like a butterfly. Manipulate the image and observe from all sides as the orbits about two fixed points are drawn.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Projectile Motion With Angry Birds
Analyze the path of a bird's flight as it attempts to obliterate pigs in the well-known game, Angry Birds. Comes with lab activities, a video, and a simulation. The latter requires software called Tracker, which is free to download.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Multiple Coin Toss Model
Students explore flipping multiple coins through this downloadable java simulation. The complete results of the tossing experiment is shown on a graph of the cumulative probability of heads.
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University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Least Squares Regression
Create your own scatter plot or use real-world data and try to fit a line to it. Explore how individual data points affect the correlation coefficient and best-fit line.
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Desmos: Charge!
In this interactive application of linear modeling, students make a prediction about the length of time it would take to charge a smartphone. They then work through a series of steps where they sketch their prediction, extend a table of...
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Four Bugs Problem: Step on No Pets
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this simulation has students model the Four-Bug Problem in order to see the general concept of pursuit curves. Each student takes on the role of a bug, and are placed at each corner of a...
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Data Tool Program
Use this online data analysis tool to build graphs and display results from scientific investigations. Data can be entered directly with the keyboard or imported from, and exported to spreadsheets.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Micrometer Model
Use this virtual model to simulate the basic operations and accuracy of a micrometer while manipulating the physical parts of the object.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Demo Package
Various computational physics models including interactive applications for practicing physics problems.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Galton Board Model
Simulate the binomial distribution of a Galton board as a ball is dropped into the device. Investigate the probability of the ball going to the right or to the left with each bounce off a peg.
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Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Multiplicative Process Program
The mathematics resource uses a downloadable java applet to simulate the outcome of a product of random numbers. Examples of multiplicative processes include the distributions of incomes and rainfall.