List of Director Movies

Developed By

Farhang Amiri & Bradley Carroll

Physics Department

Weber State University

Ogden, Ut 84408

SUBJECT	DIRECTOR ANIMATION
Kinematics	Velocity and acceleration in linear motion Position, Velocity, Acceleration Racing cars: distance, velocity, and acceleration Galileo's experiment Velocity and acceleration of a falling ball (new version) Falling objects with air resistance Racing balls: which one reaches the ground first? Projectile motion: monkey and the banana Horizontal and vertical velocities Trajectories and acceleration Trajectory of a ball with air resistance (new version)
Force & Newton's Laws	Hocky puck inertia Dogsled race Lifting and Newton's first law The normal force Force of friction Sliding cars and stopping distances Falling parachutes with air resistance Racing parachutes with air resistance Playing catch ball in space Rocket motion Static Equilibrium
Momentum & Energy	Playing catch ball in space Rocket motion Jumping from a cart and the law of conservation of momentum Collisions and the conservation of momentum Inelastic car collisions One-dimensional collisions KE, PE, and the total energy of a falling ball Simple pendulum Loop-the-loop Spring and mass system Car on an inclined plane Bouncing ball and the law of conservation of energy Bungee jump Frosty the skiing snowman
Circular & Rotational Motion	Circular motion of car traveling around a race track Circular motion - the sling The normal force Seesaw Center of mass Merry-go-round Static equilibrium
Gravity & Astronomy	Mass and gravitational force Satellite motion Geocentric and heliocentric solar systems Planetary motion and Kepler's laws (new version)
Fluids	Pressure in solids and liquids Mass, volume, density, and buoyancy
Thermodynamics	The three phases of water The ideal gas law Temperature, speed, and kinetic energy The distribution of speeds in a gas (new version) Mixing in a box of gas particles Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics
Electricity	Static electric charges on a pith ball Electric charges and the electroscope Electric field lines and vectors The trajectory of a positive test charge A light bulb and a battery Electric circuits and Ohm's law (new version) Series and parallel connections in electric circuits
Magnetism	The magnetic field of a bar magnet The magnetic field produced by an electric current Charged particle in a magnetic field -I Charged particle in a magnetic field -II A proton in Earth's magnetic field Magnetic force on a current carrying wire Electric dipole radiation
Waves	Simple harmonic motion for a spring Simple harmonic motion and uniform circular motion Resonance Normal modes Superposition of waves The superposition of traveling waves on a cord The superposition of sound waves Standing waves The Doppler effect and sonic booms Ripple tank interference The refraction of waves
Light	Fizeau's experiment Additive and subtractive mixing of colors polarization of light The refraction of light Image formation Lenses and mirrors Single-slit-diffraction Interference of waves from two slits Interference and diffraction of light
Relativity	The michelson-Morley experiment Relativity and simultaneity Special theory of relativity: Length contraction Special theory of relativity: Time dilation Relativistic train race
Quantum physics	The photoelectric effect Interference of electrons Models of the atom The quantum atom
Nuclear Physics	The atomic nucleus and Rutherford's experiment Radioactive decay
Chemistry	The nature of matter Ionic bonds Covalent bonds
Chaos and fractals	Chaotic pendulum Sierpinski triangle Pythagorean tree