Classical Mechanics Websites

How do physics laws affect amusement park ride design? Design your own roller coaster and experiment with bumper car collisions.

Discusses shape of a soccer ball, spin effects and the motion of projectiles.

Graphics, related links and a video combine to show you how gyroscopes work.

An original paper by William Rowan Hamilton, dated 1833.

Explanation of lifting capabilities of helium, hydrogen and hot air balloons, from How Stuff Works.

Colorful illustrated tutorial shows how a block and tackle (as well as levers and gears) works.

Provides several interactive physics simulations such as springs and masses, pendulums, molecules. Objects, mass, gravity, spring stiffness can be modified.

Provides definitions of gravity.

Free online encyclopedia with description of the theory and history of classical mechanics.

Web page contains a clear, simple and intuitive derivation of this formula.

Group at the Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, undertaking laboratory tests of gravitational and sub-gravitational physics.

Interactive visualisation of nonlinear mappings, a Java applet simulating the standard map and the Henon map.

Discussion of various forms of rotating motion in which the Coriolis effect plays a part, such as the Foucault pendulum and inertial oscillations. Illustrated with animations.

Tutorial on this topic.

Provides some solutions for wave equations.