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A free collection of about 30 interactive, browser-based animations for physics and engineering education. Students change parameters with sliders, buttons or drag-and-drop and see the effects in real time. Topics include thermodynamics (ideal gas changes of state with p-V and T-S diagrams, heat pump, refrigerator, four-stroke, two-stroke and Wankel engines, steam engines), mechanics (mechanical work, forces on a wedge, crank mechanism, four-bar linkage), fluid mechanics and energy (airfoil lift, wind turbines, Pelton turbine, marine propeller, combined cycle power plant), electricity and electronics (law of induction, RLC circuits, voltage divider, transistor characteristics, induction motor, solar cell charge carriers) and control engineering (PID controller). Most animations come with an explanatory page on the underlying physics and formulas. Runs in any modern browser, nothing to install, no ads, no login. Suitable for projection (fullscreen, lossless zoom). Most animations are published under the MIT licence with source code available. All content is available in English and German.

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