This is a new simulation of a rotating disk being illuminated by a stroboscope. You can control the speed of the disk and the frequency of the stroboscope, and see how the white spot on the disk appears. You can check all the cases of stationary appearance and the slow-motion appearance.
This simulation models Newton’s tube experiment, showing how air resistance affects falling objects. By removing air from the tube and flipping it, users can observe how a feather and a pebble fall differently in air but identically in a vacuum—demonstrating that gravity accelerates all objects equally when air resistance is removed.
يوضح قانون نيوتن الثالث أن لكل فعل رد فعل مساوٍ له في المقدار ومعاكس له في الاتجاه. يستخدم هذا الفيديو مشهداً من فيلم جاكي تشان لتوضيح المبدأ: عندما يدفع جاكي شريكه (قوة الفعل)، يختبر دفعة مساوية إلى الخلف (قوة رد الفعل)، مما يسمح لكليهما بالهروب من الخطر. مثال إبداعي من الحياة الواقعية على أزواج قوى الفعل ورد الفعل.
Looking back, I wish I had access to tools like DeepSeek. During my development process. In my recent experimenting with this open-source AI model, I’ve found it provides structured, research-paper-like responses with meaningful technical information from the first interaction. This would have significantly streamlined my research phase. Definitely, DeepSeek wouldn’t have appeared if ChatGPT hadn’t existed in the first place. But the super abilities that DeepSeek came with as it came into existence, plus being open-source, makes it super competent to the existing AI tools.
This story always reminds me how much work we still have to do to bridge the gap in technological literacy among educators!
This experiment demonstrates that in the absence of air resistance, two freely falling bodies released from the same height reach the ground simultaneously. Both objects gain the same speed during their fall, proving they experience the same acceleration – the acceleration due to gravity. The demonstration explains why we typically observe heavy objects falling faster than light objects due to air resistance effects.
That moment stuck with me. It showed me how powerful simulations can be in breaking down complex ideas. It’s the reason I decided to learn how to develop science simulations to make learning easier for others.
Sometimes, all it takes is one moment to change your path!
