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OpenLab Science is a free browser-based virtual physics lab built for high school and college-prep physics classrooms. It covers eight modules — mechanics, circuits, optics, thermodynamics, waves, fluids, electromagnetism, and modern physics — with 137 guided investigations. Each investigation runs a live, manipulable simulation alongside real-time SI measurements (not just an animation), so students measure a quantity, compare it against a closed-form physics prediction, and record percent error — the same structured workflow across every preset. Every investigation includes a printable, 5E-model lab sheet with an automatically generated answer key, verified by regression tests against the underlying physics. The simulation sandbox is free forever, requires no student login, and runs in any modern browser with no install or plugin. UI is localized into 13 languages; lab-sheet content is currently English-only.

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