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Category Archives: Flashscience.com
Rectification and smoothing
Explore the use of half and full rectifiers, changing capacitance and load. (View in full window) Downloads: Flash source file (.fla) Flash (.swf) Mac application (.app) Windows Application (.exe)
Stopping distance simulation
This animation shows how the braking distance of a car is determined by the speed of the car and the road conditions. Enter a speed from 0 – 120km/h & a reaction time from 0 to 2 seconds to calculate … Continue reading
Posted in Flashscience.com, How can motion be described and explained?, Simulations
Tagged Motion, Simulation
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Circuit calculations
(View in full window) This object shows the relationship between current & voltage when changing resistance The differences in current and voltage relationships can be seen. Drag the red sliders to change the resistance between 1 & 100Ω and change … Continue reading
Posted in Flashscience.com, How do electric circuits work?, Simulations, Unit 1
Tagged Electricity, Simulation
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Flashscience.com
Prior to developing this website, I worked on another project: Flashscience.com. This was a collection of various Flash based learning object that I had made for various classes. Some are still great, some looking bit dated. Since I started the … Continue reading
Kirchhoff’s laws
(View in full window) This learning object describes Kirchhoff’s laws of current and potential, and how current can be calculated in a multi-loop circuit. Downloads: Flash source file (.fla) Flash (.swf) Windows executable (.exe) Mac application (.app)
Posted in Flashscience.com, How do electric circuits work?, Simulations, Unit 1
Tagged Circuits, Electricity, Simulation
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Reaction time tester
(View in full window) Test your time to react to visual or audio cues. Downloads: Flash source file (.fla) Flash (.swf) Mac application (.app) Windows Application (.exe)
Logic gates
(View in full window) Logic gates form the basis of digital electronics. Logic gates are integrated circuits that have a voltage output (high, low or on,off) based on the input voltages & conditions. The basic types of logic gates are … Continue reading
Capacitor charging
(View in full window) This animation shows the charge and discharge of a capacitor. You can see how the time taken depends on the resistance & capacitance of the circuit. Use the sliders to change the values of battery voltage, … Continue reading
Diode IV curves
(View in full window) This animation shows the relationship between voltage and current for diodes. Downloads: Flash source file (.fla) Flash (.swf) Mac application (.app) Windows Application (.exe)
Posted in Electronics & Photonics, Flashscience.com, Simulations
Tagged Electronics, Simulation
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Radioactive decay & half-lives
(View in full window) The eventual decay of any particular radioactive atom is random – we can not know when it will decay. The half life of an isotope is the time that it takes for half of the atoms … Continue reading