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Isaac is a free website with 50 interactive 3D physics simulations for school and university, covering mechanics, waves, optics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, relativity, quantum and particle physics. Students change parameters such as gravity, speed or mass and the scene is recalculated at once from its equations, with live graphs. Every scene shows its equations and the conditions under which they hold, and the physics is tested against closed-form solutions, conservation laws and published values (292 tests, listed on the site). Teachers can combine scenes into a lesson with a question for each step and share it as a single link or QR code; students need no account. A lab mode adds measurement error for data fitting and lets a class compare its own measurements with the simulation, scenes can be printed as worksheets, and the site works offline after the first visit. Available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Chinese, Hindi and Arabic.

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