How to use: Drag the gold slider left or right to open/close the jaws.
Tap an object below to slide it between the jaws and take a measurement.
Object Library
How to read the vernier
Step 1. Read the main-scale cm mark to the left of the vernier zero. Step 2. Find the vernier division that lines up exactly with a main-scale tick. Step 3. Multiply that number by 0·01 cm and add it to step 1.
Micrometer Screw Gauge · Least Count 0·01 mm
drag thimble ↕
🔍 Magnifier — sleeve & thimble
Live Reading
Sleeve (main)0·00 mm
Half-mm visible?no
Thimble reading0
Thimble value0·00 mm
0·00mm
Controls
How to use: Drag the gold thimble up/down to rotate it. Each small division = 0·01 mm. A full turn advances the spindle 0·50 mm.
Object Library
How to read the micrometer
Step 1. Read the whole mm on the sleeve (below the datum line). Step 2. Check if a half-mm mark is visible (above the line). Add 0·50 mm if so. Step 3. Read the thimble where the datum line crosses it, × 0·01 mm.
Thermometers · CSEC Physics Thermal Section
drag the bulb ↑↓
Reading
24·0°C
Temperature control
0 °C100 °C
THERMOMETRIC LIQUID
About this thermometer
Click any labelled part on the diagram to see what it does and why it's designed that way.
⚖️ Moments Lab — the Balancing Act
Drag the brick stacks onto the plank. The columns hold it level while you set up — predict which way it will tip, then press Remove supports to test. It balances when the anticlockwise and clockwise moments are equal. Grey boxes A and B are unknown masses — tick Show moments · reveal ? to weigh them. A weight on the pivot has zero moment — try it, the beam won’t budge. g = 10 N/kg.
🧲 Hooke’s Law — the Spring Lab
Drag weights from the shelf onto the spring’s hanger. It stretches by e = F ÷ k, so each equal weight adds an equal stretch — until the elastic limit, where the line bends. The grey ? weights are unknown: hang one and the calibrated spring weighs it (W = k × e). g = 10 N/kg.
💧 Pressure Jets — the leaking-tank sandbox
Turn the tap on to fill the tank, then click the dashed right wall to drill a hole anywhere. Each jet leaves at v = √(2gh) and falls in a parabola — the deeper the hole, the faster it shoots and the further it lands. Click a hole again to plug it.
Liquid
Gravity
Tank W Tank H Hole size
For a fixed water level a hole at half-depth throws its jet the furthest — range = 2√(d·y).