It's hard to find a physics or chemistry teacher that doesn't use PhET Interactive Simulations, a free online science and math simulations platform founded at the University of Colorado Boulder.

PhET, which originally stood for “Physics Education Technology,” was started in 2002 by Carl Wieman, a former CU Boulder physics professor and one of five Nobel Laureates from the university, when he ...

Congratulations to the CU PhET program for being selected as the winner of the $50,000 Microsoft Education Award at the 2011 Tech Awards banquet in San Jose, California. The Tech Awards: Technology ...

Setting up an RC circuit in PhET simulator. Posted: May 16, 2025 | Last updated: May 16, 2025. Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving ...

PhET Interactive Simulations (aCC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Tugging a small toy with your dog can be a lot of fun—but it’s also a great way to experiment with forces acting on an object. Forces are what ...

PhET Interactive Simulations Rating: Excellent Strong Points: Simulations run well; all simulations are free to use and cover a wide variety of topics. One of the easiest ways to demonstrate novel ...