Eigendrum Real finite-element drum physics for anything you draw, including the 1992 proof that closed Kac's question
Finds
- Tether A ball on a string that bounces off your actual app windows
- If All the Water on Earth Disappeared The ships are the part you had not thought about
- The Wavy Window Paradox Why office glass ripples from outside and not from inside
- Falling Letters Type a sentence and watch it crumble, letter by letter
- Supersonic Trebuchet A medieval siege engine producing a very small sonic boom
- Eigendrum Draw a shape, hear the sound it would actually make
- Semiconductor Simulator Animations Watch electrons and holes move through a transistor
- The Nature of the Physical World Arthur Eddington's 1928 lectures on why the solid table under your hand is mostly empty space
- Firewood Splitting Simulator First-person 3D log-chopping with satisfying physics splits
- Fuel Efficiency of Launching Enemies into the Sun A physics analysis of disposing of objects via the Sun versus interstellar space
- Philipp von Jolly: "In physics, almost everything is already discovered" Quote Investigator traces the famous 'physics is finished' line — usually attributed to Lord Kelvin — to a paraphrase of Philipp von Jolly's advice to a young Max Planck.
- The Einstein, Newton, and Pascal Joke Three physicists, three counting strategies, one chalk square.
- The Pea, Lemon, and Potato Joke A shaggy-dog joke about three vegetables leaving a bar that earns its punchline through the differential rolling behaviour of legumes, citrus, and tubers.