MATHS WITH MATT • A-LEVEL PHYSICS
Interactive Physics Simulations
Explore the physics rather than just memorising it. Change the variables, watch what happens and connect the animation directly to the equations you need for A-Level Physics.
Waves & Oscillations
Standing Waves & Reflection
See how an incident wave and its reflection superpose to form nodes and antinodes. Compare fixed and free boundaries and change the wave conditions yourself.
Open simulation →Standing Waves: Strings & Air Columns
Explore harmonics in strings, open pipes and closed pipes. Link longitudinal particle motion to displacement and pressure nodes, antinodes, compressions and rarefactions.
Open simulation →Wave Motion Simulation
Compare transverse, longitudinal and water waves. Follow particle motion, compressions and rarefactions, and see why water waves are mixed transverse–longitudinal waves.
Open simulation →Wave Superposition
Watch two wavelets overlap and add vectorially. Explore super peaks, super troughs, cancellation, constructive interference and destructive interference.
Open simulation →Simple Harmonic Motion, Circular Motion & Transverse Waves
Watch one model morph between its SHM, circular, wave and 3D views. Change the spread, number, separation and amplitude to see that they are different ways of viewing the same motion.
Open simulation →Double-Slit Diffraction & Interference
Watch coherent wavefronts leave two slits, compare crest and trough arrival at a chosen point, and connect the moving picture to path difference, phase and fringe spacing.
Open simulation →Oscillations & Phase Difference
Compare phase-shifted oscillations, drag two points on a progressive wave and connect their separation directly to phase difference in degrees, radians and phasor form.
Open simulation →Atomic Physics
Mechanics
Golf Projectile Motion
Play a golf shot while changing launch speed, angle, mass, air resistance and backspin. Follow the SUVAT equations continuously, compare trajectories and explore a right-handed double-pendulum swing.
Open simulation →Newtonian Asteroids
Play an Asteroids-style space game with deliberately strict Newtonian mechanics. Explore inertia, thrust, torque, projectile recoil, changing mass, momentum and collisions, then switch on Physics View to see the vectors live.
Open simulation →Electricity & Magnetism
Series and Parallel Circuits
Follow coulombs of charge as delivery vans collecting joules of energy from the cell. Compare series and parallel rules, test Kirchhoff’s laws and solve Ohm’s law live.
Open simulation →Charged Particle & Velocity Selector
Launch a charged particle through electric and magnetic fields. Balance qE against qvB and prove the velocity-selector relationship v = E/B.
Open simulation →DC Circuit Construction
Build and test textbook circuits by dragging wires and components onto the grid. Explore current, potential difference, capacitance and real-time I–V and Q–t characteristics.
Open simulation →Built for revision, not distraction
Each simulation is designed around the ideas and equations students meet in AQA, Edexcel and OCR A-Level Physics. They are free to use and work directly in your browser.