Extras

An approachable look at Fourier Transforms. Or, what sound waves, cool circular drawings, and jpegs have in commmon. Created by Jez Swanson.

Fun toy that shows what it would look like to have massive space objects floating over your town. Created by Daniel Wysocki and HanGyeol Suh.

A gravitational simulator that lets you fling planets and see what happens. Created by MinuteLabs.

Fight off diseases using microbiology. Created by Molecular Jig Games.

Flash interactive that shows a visualization of the curvature of spacetime. Created by Adam Trepczynski.

Various small simulations about chemistry and physics, created by Nerd Island Studios.

Simulates the flow of a fluid around a barrier. Created by Dan Schroeder.

Simulates the path of light around a black hole, and you can drag your view around. Created by Antonell.

A game that involves optics, aiming lasers and such, loosely based on physics. Created by PlayZilla.tk.

Evolving cars on a procedural racetrack. Created by Rafael Matsunaga.

If you’re looking to simulate the state of a qubit, and how quantum logic gates will affect that state, look no further! Created by saich08.

Game about quantum logic gates, where you use gates to direct falling balls. Build by rsoiffer.

An old (2001) virtual life sim where the creatures have digital dna and traits are passed down accordingly. Surprisingly complex. Created by Creature Labs.

A periodic table where you can drag various elements around, and see which ones interact with which. Created by the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

A complicated puzzle game where you’re building large molecules. Created by Zachtronics.

Flash simulation of an orbit that lets you control the parameters directly, and gives graphs and data showcasing how Kepler’s Laws relate to your setup. Built by the Nebraska Astronomy Applet Program.

Website that has tons of videos, simulations, and mathematical explanations of how to visualize relativity. Created by Ute Kraus and Corvin Zahn.

Super silly game about building circuit components, but instead of electrons moving, there are little 2d physics balls. Created by NoNotCar.

Simulation using SPH of a ball in water. Created by Hector Arellano.

Very complex evolution simulator where you can observe and interact with whole 3D ecosystems.

Explore adaptations in this museum-style interactive. Build fish and see how well they survive. Created by Shedd Aquarium.

Evolving creatures walk better and better. Created by Rafael Matsunaga

Lots – hundreds at least – of small physics applets, around a wide range of topics, separated out into two semesters of college physics. Motion, thermo, EM, waves, and optics all covered. Created by Andrew Duffy.

As the title says, a pretty basic, though visually interesting, simulation of an electric circuit. Helpful for understanding electron flow. Created by Electricity Explained.

A platformer game that includes some relativistic effects. By the SyllabusGames YouTube channel, in association with this video: https://youtu.be/bHGTDTIE23c

Classic web game about playing golf in space, having to take the gravity of various objects into account. Created by Funky Pear.

A classic flash game about cell biology, created by Phoenix00017, larsiusprime, and BGroupProduction.

Many, many pages explaining the history of microscopes and how they work. Occasionally has some interactive simulations mixed in. Created by Michael W. Davidson.

List of science games and interactives, pulled together by the SyllabusGames YouTube channel, in association with this video.

A little rolling marble game where you’re a nucleus slowly fusing and radioactively decaying as you march through the periodic table. Fair warning, in Portuguese, but not too many words. Created by Priscila Caimi.

Tic Tac Toe with quantum mechanical rules, for both web and mobile. Created by Evert.

If you’re looking for a game where you design physical computer chips, this PC game is for you. Pretty complex. Created by Elorth.

A tool for exploring and animating electromagnetic waves. Created by András Szilágyi.

Simple and pretty fluid simulation by Johann Troendle.

A long interactive blog post about how a wing works, simulating the movement of air and pressure. The post gets into lots of related physics along the way.

A game about evolving creatures, all the way to space if I’m not mistaken. Created by Maxis.

An absolute classic – guide an electric charge to the goal using only other electric charges. Created by PhET.

Simple simulation where you can control a wave. Built by Nerd Island Studio.

Particle physics puzzle game, based on the rules of the Standard Model. Version 1 is a bit hard to access now. Created by TestTubeGames.

Very simple online oscilloscope that you can fiddle the knobs and buttons on. Created by PhysicsZone.

Gravity simulation by the National Science & Tech Medals Foundation.

A full multimedia quark adventure, with videos, stories, and games. Created by a team led by Alice Bean.

Given a certain layout of positive and negative electrodes, this simulator will calculate and display the resulting electric potentials and fields. Built by Nathaniel Klemm.

A mobile explanation/game about qubits and quantum gates. Created by Dimosthenis Michailidis.

Explore the spacetime around a black hole in your rocket ship. Created by TestTubeGames.

An online quantum game. Created by Rohan.

Simulating evolution with little avocado-blobs running to get food. Built by MinuteLabs.

Interesting interactive web simulations, many of which are about fluids and flow. Created by a variety of developers.

A gravity simulator for the web. Created by apexearth.

Trippy game which takes place in a strange geometric world unlike our own. Two actually, one with de Sitter spacetime, and another with anti-de Sitter spacetime. Created by Zeno Rogue.

An interactive periodic table by PBS media, which includes a little mystery game to match elements to their descriptions.

A very neat downloadable java game about quantum mechanics. Created by Crispin Cooper.