Simulations

Cool phone app that can turn your device into a physics sensor, measuring things like sound, acceleration, light, etc. Created by Vieyra Software.

An evolution simulator heavily based in biology, built by Revolutionary Game Studio.

Have you ever wanted to evolve mold? Here, you can evolve mold. Created by erytau.

Simple tool for exploring the night sky at different wavelengths of light. Built by Lowe, Simpson, and North.

An evolving creature simulator where the creature are boxes stuck together into piles. Built by Evol Games.

Fling planets and change physics in this gravity sandbox. Available in browser and for download. Created by TestTubeGames.

Turn your phone into a physics lab. Graph things like acceleration, pressure, and magnetic field. Very powerful stuff. Created by RWTH Aachen University.

Very cool 3D astronomical simulations, running right in the browser. Created by Darrell Huffman.

Simulate solar eclipses, even on other planets and with other moons. Created by MinuteLabs.

Pixel based simulation of life, where each color represents a type of cell for the organism. Over time organisms evolve in their virtual environment. Created by Max Robinson.

Basically lets you recreate The Game of Life, but with emoji and any rules you’d like to put in. Created by Nicky Case.

A customizable toy of a double pendulum. Created by MinuteLabs.

A to-scale model of the solar system in a browser window. Created by Josh Worth.

An interactive explorable about the physics behind gears. Created by Bartosz Ciechanowski.

A simulated swing, with some tools for exploring the physics behind pumping your legs. Created by TestTubeGames.

Fascinating simulation where you can add and move objects in 4 dimensions. On mobile or pc, and created by mtb design works.

See a globe of earth, but back in history, millions of years ago. Watch the techtonic plates move, and see where in Pangaea your house was.

A simulation of falling sand and so much more, a surprising amount of physics built into this toy. Created by the R74n Collective.

Cool look at gravity of many, many bodies, calculated on a mesh. Looks neat, too. Created by Ricky Reusser.

Evolving creature simulator where the creatures are basically 3D sets of boxes. Built by Evol Games.

Draw the bones and muscles for your stick-figure creatures, and evolve them into better racers. Built by Keiwando.

Scroll up on this webpage and take yourself higher and higher, exploring “What’s up there?” with fun cartoony graphics. Created by neal.fun.

Long blog post about the physics behind bicycles. Full of interactives, and very cleanly done. Covers an absurd amount of mechanics. Created by Bartosz Ciechanowski.

A simulation of the spacetime around a Schwarzschild black hole where you can fling astroids and light to your heart’s content. Created by TestTubeGames.

The math of how Thai fireflies time themselves. Created by Nicky Case.

A nice interactive look at three-body orbits that repeat. Created by Ricky Reusser.

Investigate systems that interact, such as the predator-prey population dynamics and much, much more. Created by Nicky Case.

Build tons of 2D physics simulations with this free resource. Easy to check out, tons of cool stuff you can do with it. Created by Dimitris Xanthopoulos.

Electromagnetic wave simulation. Created by Falstad.

Basic and easy-to-use simulation for light curving around a black hole. Created by Thomas Müller.

Fascinating simulator that gives you a lot of power to change the rules of the world, adding in various forces, rules, and objects. Can create some interesting things. Built by lisyarus.

Fly through the universe near the speed of light, and experience the relativistic effects of length contraction and time dilation. Can you make it to Andromeda in one raptor’s lifetime? Built by TestTubeGames.

Simulation for investigating waves and interference, with a bunch of customizable physics options. Created by Falstad.

A look at the quantum mechanics behind Bell’s Inequality, using a casino as an example. Built as a long blog post with many interactives along the way. Created by Adam Becker.

App that lets you explore a tesseract, built by Lunar Skydiving.

An interactive book about geology and earth science, available for iPad and Mac. Created by Chaim Gingold.

Scrollable explorer where you can see what’s in the deep ocean, the deeper you go. By Neal.fun.

A slick simulation of particles flying around a black hole. Created by Ricky Reusser.

Investigating molecules bouncing around in a piston in various states of matter. Good thermodynamics simulations by PhET.

Web based oscilloscope, with a variety of settings to explore, among them the ability to use your microphone to input the wave pattern. Created by Neil Thapen.

Fun toy that lets you play with a Reaction Diffusion System, a simulation that easily makes interesting patterns and has a connection to how biological systems grow. Created by pmeila.

Have you ever wanted to walk backward into a black hole? Fly through a wormhole? Now’s your chance in this relativistic simulation. Based on the setup in the movie Interstellar, and created by sirXemic.

A beautiful simulation of a fluid that’s quite fun to play with. Mesmorizing… Built by Pavel Dobryakov.

Simple light color mixing simulation, by Alex Larioza.

An interactive video that lets you explore the math and patterns of virus structures. Created by Hamish Todd.

Particles bouncing around in a box, with lots of options for changing the setup. Includes thermodynamic quantities, too. Built by Falstad.

An interactive blog post about waves, their shapes, adding them together, and harmonics.

Simple simulation: draw an iceberg, and see how it will float in the water. Inspired by the idea that icebergs are often drawn incorrectly. Made by joshdata.

Downloadable space simulation that lets you smash planets together in a really cool way. Created by Giant Army.

Simple lens simulation by MinuteLabs.

Crawling stick figure creatures evolve before your eyes. Created by TestTubeGames.

Scroll down the page and explore what energies match what masses, according to the famous equation E=mc^2. Created by MinuteLabs.