In Indonesia, students explore PhET’s Balancing Act simulation. Muhammad Zulham, licensed under CC BY 4.0. It's hard to find a physics or chemistry teacher that doesn't use PhET Interactive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last fall, students nominated Physics Professor Ed Kinney for an ASSETT Award of Excellence for Outstanding Teacher for Technology in Teaching in Physics 1240 Sound and Music. Students wrote that the ...

Wieman played a crucial role in the physics department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and laid the foundation for PhET Interactive Simulations as a learning tool in the sciences.

We were intrigued to see such results even when the science would normally be considered too advanced. For instance, our non-science university students use PhET sims to learn the basic physics of ...

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 ...

BOULDER, Colo., May 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- PhET Interactive Simulations at University of Colorado Boulder, today, announced a collaboration with the adaptive learning company Smart Sparrow. The ...