Available for Windows
Makarov Physics Suite
200 interactive modules span mechanics, waves, optics, electromagnetism, quantum phenomena, fluids and thermodynamics. Work with physical objects, inspect detailed 3D apparatus and connect the motion to live measurements.
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Physics / Math
Distance-field fractals
Surfaces with no mesh: a distance estimator and sphere tracing draw the whole thing.
Physics / Math
Deep zoom and the limits of precision
Zoom until the arithmetic gives out, then buy 22 more mantissa bits and watch the wall move.
Physics
The qubit: Rabi, Ramsey, decoherence
A two-level system you can drive and read, and the three times that ruin it. Rabi oscillations under a resonant field, the π pulse, the Ramsey fringe, T₁ relaxation, T₂ dephasing and the T₂* an ensemble's spread adds on top - all on the Bloch sphere, with sixty-four spins fanning out and the Hahn echo snapping them back. Every curve is measured against its closed form.
Physics / Math
Physarum networks
A slime-mould swarm grows an optimal transport network from local rules.
Physics / Math / Earth
Predator–prey (Lotka–Volterra)
An agent ecosystem: grass, herds, hunters - and Lotka–Volterra cycles.
Physics / Astronomy
Gravitational waves
A compact binary spirals in and its quadrupole wave crosses the plane at retarded time: the two-armed spiral tightens as the orbit decays, and the detector trace chirps.
Physics
Electromagnetic induction
Faraday's law live: a magnet falling through a coil induces a current, Lenz brakes the fall for real - plus the copper pipe, a transformer and a generator.
Physics / Engineering
Pulley systems
Count the rope segments and you have the mechanical advantage. The work does not change: a machine buys force with distance, never with energy.
Physics
Where is the block?
Random snapshots of a block on a frictionless track build a histogram - and it converges to 1/v, the classical shadow of |psi|^2.
Physics
From an LC circuit to a qubit
An LC oscillator has equally spaced levels, so nothing in it can be a two-level system. Swap the inductor for a Josephson junction and the parabola becomes a cosine: the levels crowd together by the anharmonicity α, so a drive on 0→1 leaves 1→2 alone. The other number, the charge dispersion, falls exponentially with √(E_J/E_C) while α falls only linearly - that trade is the transmon. Both numbers come out of the Hamiltonian diagonalised live, and a π pulse shows the leakage the anharmonicity allows.
Physics / Astronomy / Earth
Aurora (magnetosphere)
A charged particle on a real dipole field line: it either mirrors before reaching the atmosphere, or precipitates - decided entirely by its pitch angle.
Physics / Math
Neural descent
A neural network learns digits live, drawn as physics: the loss landscape in 3D, gradient descent as a ball rolling downhill, momentum as inertia and minibatch noise as temperature.
Physics / Math
Hopfield memory
Damage a stored memory with a brush, predict whether it comes back, and watch the network repair it one neuron at a time - each flip lowering the energy by 2|h| - or fall into another memory or a spurious mixture, named as such.
Some modules belong to more than one Suite. Shared experiments have one description here.