Crocodile Clips
Simple Simulation Software
Crocodile Physics online training course
This training course offers a comprehensive introduction to using Crocodile Physics. It gives you information about how to use each area of the simulation, and covers a wide range of tips and techniques to help you get the most out of the powerful simulations.
Duration: approximately 45 minutes; course leader: Julie Gray
Electric Circuits
Shows how to build simple series & parallel circuits, including wiring, changing values and graphing
Easy, 4 mins 16 secs
Alternating Currents
Shows how to build circuits using AC, change source frequency, voltage and phase, rectify and smooth AC and graph alternating voltages - including plotting two graphs and using meters to measure RMS voltage.
Medium, 4 mins 47 secs
Motion
Shows how move and collide balls, add and edit gravity settings, slide objects down slopes, show force labels and apply forces to models, and graph motion quantities - including distance-time and velocity time graphs.
Easy, 9 mins 26 secs
Oscillations
Shows how to model a simple pendulum, use graphs - including graphing oscillating motion and energy of moving bodies and plotting two graphs simultaneously, use springs with masses and control simulation parameters using number parts.
Medium, 6 mins 17 secs
Optics
Shows how to simulate optical experiments add and edit light sources, use concave & convex lenses and mirrors and measure angles or light rays, investigate reflection and refraction, and experiment with prisms.
Easy, 7mins 17 secs
Ray Diagrams
Shows how to model optical systems on an optical axis, add pictures as objects for your optical system, view the images formed on a screen or with an eye and experiment with focus and intensity.
Medium, 4 mins 3 secs
Waves
Shows how to experiment with electromagnetic, sound and water waves, use point, plane and moving sources, add reflectors and obstacles to your simulation, take cross-sections of the wave experiment, investigate diffraction and interference using slits, graph wave properties.
Medium, 6 mins 1 secs
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