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Virtual laboratory experiments

Six laboratory experiments. All of them have been rewritten from scratch in JavaScript: they work in any browser and on a phone, and nothing needs to be installed.

Under each one the original has been kept — the very Flash in which the experiments were made at the end of the 2000s. It is played by Ruffle, a Flash emulator built in WebAssembly; it weighs fourteen megabytes and loads only when you press the button. This is emulation and not Flash: the old experiments may not start completely, may run slowly, or may show something other than what they showed fifteen years ago. The originals are kept for comparison, not for use.

Atwood's machine. Testing Newton's second law

The original in Flash

An experiment from the 2000s, shown through an emulator. Faults are possible.

Download the original file (Newton.swf, 5 KB)

A study of the damped and undamped oscillations of a simple pendulum

The original in Flash

An experiment from the 2000s, shown through an emulator. Faults are possible.

Download the original file (Mayatnik.swf, 16 KB)

A study of the damped and undamped oscillations of a spring pendulum

The original in Flash

An experiment from the 2000s, shown through an emulator. Faults are possible.

Download the original file (Prujin.swf, 20 KB)

Determining the coefficient of internal friction of a liquid by Stokes' method

The original in Flash

An experiment from the 2000s, shown through an emulator. Faults are possible.

Download the original file (Stox.swf, 6 KB)

A study of the transformer

The original in Flash

An experiment from the 2000s, shown through an emulator. Faults are possible.

Download the original file (Transf.swf, 16 KB)

Relations between quantities in rotational motion

The original in Flash

An experiment from the 2000s, shown through an emulator. Faults are possible.

Download the original file (Turn.swf, 9 KB)