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Physics Arcade

• Kinematics Castle: Treasure Trek Walk a path on a number line and compare distance, displacement, speed, and velocity. ▶ PLAY
• Kinematics Castle: Drag Race Use the kinematic equations to hit exact times, speeds, and stopping distances. ▶ PLAY
• Kinematics Castle: Catch the Cop A speeder blows past you. Choose your acceleration to catch it, using two-body kinematics. ▶ PLAY
• Kinematics Castle: Traffic Light Dash Braking distance and reaction time: how far does a car go before it stops? ▶ PLAY
• Kinematics Castle: Graph Runner Walk the graph, use area to predict displacement, and match motion stories to position-time and velocity-time graphs. ▶ PLAY
• Kinematics Castle: Free Fall Drop Drop objects from a tower: fall time, impact speed, and why mass doesn't matter. ▶ PLAY
• Kinematics Castle: River Crossing Steer a boat across a current: relative velocity, vector addition, and two reference frames. ▶ PLAY
• Kinematics Castle: Train Toss Throw a ball on a moving train and compare the rider's and the platform's descriptions. ▶ PLAY
• Kinematics Castle: Airplane and Wind Steer a plane through a crosswind: adding velocity vectors in two dimensions. ▶ PLAY
• Kinematics Castle: Cannon Command Aim and fire: predict where the projectile lands using independent horizontal and vertical motion. ▶ PLAY
• Kinematics Castle: Stunt Truck Jump Set the ramp angle and speed to jump the gap: projectile motion with a launch angle. ▶ PLAY
• Kinematics Castle: Basketball Free Throw Choose the launch speed and angle to make the shot: projectile motion. ▶ PLAY
• Dynamics Dungeon: Balance Beam Balance a beam by placing masses and the pivot: center of mass and torque. ▶ PLAY
• Dynamics Dungeon: FBD Builder Draw the free-body diagram: pick each force, drag its arrow, and get it checked. ▶ PLAY
• Dynamics Dungeon: Newton's Arena All three of Newton's laws: inertia, F = ma, and action-reaction, with predictions and challenges. ▶ PLAY
• Dynamics Dungeon: Elevator Ride Ride an elevator on a scale: apparent weight, free-body diagrams, and Newton's second law. ▶ PLAY
• Dynamics Dungeon: Atwood Machine Two masses over a pulley: acceleration, tension, and Newton's second law for a two-body system. ▶ PLAY
• Dynamics Dungeon: Tug of Two Blocks Two blocks joined by a string: acceleration, tension, and Newton's second law for a system. ▶ PLAY
• Dynamics Dungeon: Planet Hopper Weight, mass, and jump height on other worlds, and how surface gravity depends on mass and radius. ▶ PLAY
• Dynamics Dungeon: Moon Orbit Orbits around Earth: orbital speed, period, gravity at altitude, and the geostationary orbit. ▶ PLAY
• Dynamics Dungeon: Ramp Racer Slide a crate down a ramp: components of weight, friction, acceleration, and the critical angle. ▶ PLAY
• Dynamics Dungeon: Crate Push Push a crate and watch friction change: static friction matches the push until it slips, then kinetic friction takes over. ▶ PLAY
• Dynamics Dungeon: Spring Scale Hang masses from springs: Hooke's law, equilibrium, and springs in series and parallel. ▶ PLAY
• Dynamics Dungeon: Loop the Loop Send a cart around a vertical loop: centripetal force, speed at the top, and the normal force on the rider. ▶ PLAY
• Dynamics Dungeon: Banked Curve Centripetal force on a banked curve: bank angle, speed, and friction. ▶ PLAY
• Dynamics Dungeon: Swing the Bucket Swing a bucket of water in a vertical circle: minimum speed, string tension, and centripetal force. ▶ PLAY
• Energy Empire: Stopping Distance Kinetic energy, the work-energy theorem, and why speed matters so much in a crash. ▶ PLAY
• Energy Empire: Tow Rope Work done by a force at an angle and by a changing force: W = Fd cosθ and the area under a force graph. ▶ PLAY
• Energy Empire: Hill Roller Release a cart down a hill: track kinetic, gravitational, and internal energy, change the zero line and the system, and see what friction costs. ▶ PLAY
• Energy Empire: Spring Launcher Compress Hooke's Spring, launch the crate up the ramp, and see where every joule goes. ▶ PLAY
• Energy Empire: Power Race Power as the rate of energy transfer: lifting crates with motors and racing the clock. ▶ PLAY
• Momentum Mountain: Collision Lab Carts collide on a frictionless track: conservation of momentum, elastic and inelastic collisions. ▶ PLAY
• Momentum Mountain: Crash Test Impulse and crumple zones: the same change in momentum over a longer time means a smaller force. ▶ PLAY
• Momentum Mountain: Ballistic Pendulum A bullet embeds in a hanging block: momentum in the collision, then energy in the swing. ▶ PLAY