Florida State University
Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Measuring With Shadows
You can use shadows and a meter stick to measure very tall objects from the ground--and before you try this experiment yourself, see how it works with a Java applet that measures the height of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Simple Plot
A java applet that helps a student to create a scatter plot using the coordinates and axes and given data.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Graph Predictions for Position, Velocity and Acceleration
Learners interactively create predictions of position, velocity, and acceleration graphs using java applets. The applets automatically classify student answers, so instructors can create graphs of student predictions.
National Earth Science Teachers Association
Windows to the Universe: Mythology Hangman
Test your knowledge of world mythology by playing Mythology Hangman, a Java applet and website that features images, maps, and descriptions for beginner, intermediate, and advanced students. It is a great resource to supplement mythology...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Electromagnetic Induction
Learners investigate electromagnetic induction. Some topics explored in the activities are Faraday's law of induction, superconductivity, and non-conservative fields. The resource consists of video clips, online textbook chapters,...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Forces: Current Carrying Wires in Magnetic Fields
Learners investigate current-carrying wires in magnetic fields. Some topics explored in the activities are forces, magnetic dipoles, and circuits. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, exam questions, java applets, and...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Electrostatics With Conductors
Learners investigate electrostatics with conductors. Some topics explored in the activities are electric shielding, conductors, and charging by induction. The resource consists of video clips, lecture notes, online textbook chapters,...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Real Time World Population Counter
This takes you directly to a world population counter, an excellent Learning Tool Java applet based on U.S. census bureau data that estimates the world's current population. Also allows users to enter their birthdate and shows the...
Curated OER
Zona Land: Transform of F(x) = 2^x
A java applet that lets you manipulate the function f(x) = 2^x and see the effects on the graph.
Curated OER
Polynomial Functions of the First Degree
A java applet that lets you graph a first degree polynomial and see how changing the coefficients changes the graph.
Curated OER
Zona Land: Right Triangle Solver 1
A java applet that will solve a right triangle when you provide information for angle D and its opposite side d.
Curated OER
Zona Land: Right Triangle Solver 2
A java applet that will solve a right triangle when you provide angle D and its adjacent side e.
Curated OER
Zona Land: Right Triangle Solver 3
A java applet that will solve a right triangle when you provide angle D and the length of the hypotenuse f.
Curated OER
Zona Land: Right Triangle Solver 4
A java applet that will solve a right triangle when you provide side lengths for d (long side) and e (short side).
Curated OER
Zona Land: Right Triangle Solver 5
A java applet that will solve a right triangle when you provide the lengths of side e (short side) and side f (hypotenuse).
Curated OER
Zona Land: Right Triangle Solver 6
A java applet that will solve a right triangle when you provide the lengths for side d (long side) and for side f (hypotenuse).
Curated OER
Trig Function Point Definitions
A java applet that relates the unit circle to the graphs of the six trigonometric functions, complete with the values of the functions.
Curated OER
Zona Land: Components of a Vector
An interactive Java applet where users can rotate a vector about its tail and view the components of that vector. Magnitude of the components is updated on screen as the vector is dragged.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Linear Inequality Graph
Learn Alberta offers an interactive Java applet to manipulate and view all types of graphs of linear equations and inequalities.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Linear Programming Graph
This interactive Java applet allows the user to construct up to 5 linear inequalities and view the graph of the soultion.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Physics 2000: Temperature and Absolute Zero
A thorough, multipage discussion of color and color television sets that explains how an image is formed on the television using red, green, and blue light. Understandable discussion, excellent graphics, and many interactive Java applets.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Physics 2000: Einstein's Legacy: Microwave Ovens
A series of pages that explain how microwave radiation is utilized by ovens to cook food. Includes several Java applets.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Build Your Own Solar System
This Java applet creates a model of a solar system with user-defined data. Users can create a solar system with up to four planets, choosing the star type at the center of the solar system, planet name, size, eccentricity of orbit and...
American Association of Physics Teachers
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.