Engineering

Design and tune systems the way engineers do: size components, find resonances, and see how feedback and structure shape behaviour.

20 live simulators

Screenshot of RC Circuit
LiveIntermediate

RC Circuit

Charge and discharge a capacitor through a resistor, change R, C and the supply voltage, and read the time constant from the exponential curves.

Engineering · Circuits & Electronics

Class 11–12 · College & beyondClass 12 Physics: Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

Launch simulator: RC Circuit
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LiveAdvanced

RLC Resonance

Drive a series RLC circuit with an AC source, sweep the frequency, and inspect current amplitude, phase and the sharpness of resonance.

Engineering · Circuits & Electronics

Class 11–12 · College & beyondClass 12 Physics: Alternating Current (resonance)

Launch simulator: RLC Resonance
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LiveIntermediate

Electromagnetic Induction

Push a bar magnet through a coil, change speed, turns and magnet strength, and connect the changing magnetic flux to the induced voltage.

Physics · Electricity & Magnetism

Class 11–12Class 12 Physics: Electromagnetic Induction

Launch simulator: Electromagnetic Induction
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LiveAdvanced

Fourier Synthesis

Build square, sawtooth and triangle waves by adding sine harmonics, inspect the spectrum, and see the Gibbs overshoot at jumps.

Mathematics · Calculus

College & beyondFourier series: college mathematics and engineering

Launch simulator: Fourier Synthesis
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LiveIntermediate

Magnetic Fields

Place current-carrying wires going into and out of the page, and visualise the magnetic field lines, strength and direction they create, including coils and parallel-wire forces.

Physics · Electricity & Magnetism

Class 9–10 · Class 11–12Class 10 Science: Magnetic Effects of Electric Current; Class 12 Physics: Moving Charges and Magnetism

Launch simulator: Magnetic Fields
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LiveBeginner

Logic Gates

Toggle inputs on digital circuits from single gates to a half adder, full adder and SR latch, trace signal propagation, and generate truth tables.

Computer Science · Algorithms

Class 11–12 · College & beyondClass 11 Computer Science: Computer Systems (Boolean logic)

Launch simulator: Logic Gates
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LiveBeginner

Solar Panel Geometry

Change latitude, date, time of day, panel tilt and orientation, and see the sun's path across the sky, the angle at which sunlight strikes the panel, and idealized daily energy.

Engineering · Energy Systems

Class 6–8 · Class 11–12Class 6 Social Science: Earth's motions and seasons; Class 11 Geography: Solar Radiation, Heat Balance and Temperature

Launch simulator: Solar Panel Geometry
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LiveIntermediate

Wind Turbine

Change wind speed, rotor size, air density and rotor control, and inspect a bounded power model with the cube law, the Betz limit, tip-speed ratio and a rated-power cap.

Engineering · Energy Systems

Class 9–10 · College & beyondBuilds on Class 9 Science: Work and Energy (kinetic energy)

Launch simulator: Wind Turbine
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LiveIntermediate

Battery Storage

Size an off-grid solar battery system, set load and generation profiles, and track state of charge, unmet demand and spilled energy hour by hour.

Engineering · Energy Systems

Class 11–12 · College & beyondBuilds on Class 12 Chemistry: Electrochemistry (batteries)

Launch simulator: Battery Storage
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LiveAdvanced

Grid Frequency

Trip a power station or add load, and watch a simplified grid's frequency fall and recover through inertia, governor droop and automatic generation control.

Engineering · Energy Systems

College & beyondCollege power systems

Launch simulator: Grid Frequency
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LiveIntermediate

Building Insulation

Choose wall and roof insulation, glazing and air-tightness for a two-storey house, set the weather, and compare U-values, the temperature profile through the wall, and idealized heat loss.

Engineering · Energy Systems

Class 11–12 · College & beyondClass 11 Physics: Thermal Properties of Matter (conduction)

Launch simulator: Building Insulation
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LiveAdvanced

PID Control

Tune proportional, integral and derivative gains on a mass–spring–damper, add a disturbance and actuator limits, and inspect overshoot, settling time and steady-state error.

Engineering · Control Systems

College & beyondCollege control engineering

Launch simulator: PID Control
Screenshot of Robot Arm
LiveIntermediate

Robot Arm

Set joint angles or drag a target for a two-link planar robot arm, and inspect forward and inverse kinematics, elbow-up and elbow-down solutions, reachability, and joint versus straight-line motion.

Engineering · Control Systems

Class 11–12 · College & beyondBuilds on Class 11 Maths: Trigonometric Functions

Launch simulator: Robot Arm
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LiveBeginner

Gear Trains

Change tooth counts in simple and compound gear trains, and inspect rotation direction, speed ratio and ideal output torque with animated meshing gears.

Engineering · Structures & Mechanisms

Class 6–8 · College & beyondBuilds on Class 6–8 Maths: ratio and proportion

Launch simulator: Gear Trains
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LiveAdvanced

Beam Deflection

Load a simply supported or cantilever beam with point and distributed loads, change span, material and cross-section, and inspect deflection, bending moment, shear and stress in the small-deflection Euler–Bernoulli model.

Engineering · Structures & Mechanisms

College & beyondCollege structural engineering

Launch simulator: Beam Deflection
Screenshot of Truss Forces
LiveIntermediate

Truss Forces

Load stable truss presets (A-frame, Pratt, Howe and Warren), change span, height and loads, and visualize tension and compression in every member found by the method of joints.

Engineering · Structures & Mechanisms

Class 11–12 · College & beyondBuilds on Class 11 Physics: Laws of Motion (equilibrium of forces)

Launch simulator: Truss Forces
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LiveAdvanced

Vibration Isolation

Mount a machine on springs and dampers over a shaking floor, change mass, stiffness, damping and excitation frequency, and compare transmissibility and resonance.

Engineering · Structures & Mechanisms

Class 11–12 · College & beyondClass 11 Physics: Oscillations (forced oscillations, resonance)

Launch simulator: Vibration Isolation
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LiveIntermediate

Digital Sampling

Change a signal's frequency and the sampling rate, observe aliasing, compare sinc and staircase reconstruction, and see how quantization bits limit precision.

Engineering · Signals & Data

College & beyondCollege signals and systems

Launch simulator: Digital Sampling
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LiveAdvanced

Audio Filtering

Adjust low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and notch filters, inspect their frequency response on a decibel scale, see what they do to hum, a tone and hiss, and optionally listen to the result.

Engineering · Signals & Data

College & beyondCollege signals and systems

Launch simulator: Audio Filtering
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LiveIntermediate

Image Convolution

Edit a 3 × 3 kernel and step through convolution pixel by pixel to see how blur, sharpening and edge detection transform a small test image.

Engineering · Signals & Data

College & beyondCollege image processing

Launch simulator: Image Convolution

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