Physics you can change and observe.
Maxwell includes interactive Physics across 14 areas of the GCSE and International GCSE course. Students change a variable, watch what happens, and connect the behaviour to the equations they are learning.
Don’t just read physics. Change it.
Try one Maxwell interactive Physics example. Adjust the impact duration and watch the force, graph and physical response change together.
Connected to student learning and teacher-assigned work across 14 interactive areas: Mechanics, Energy and Matter, Electricity and Magnetism, Waves and Light, and Modern Physics.
For the same change in momentum, increasing the impact duration reduces the average force. Here, Δp = 12 kg·m/s stays the same while Δt changes.
Understanding, not just watching
Each interactive area is built around a change a student can make. The point is not animation for its own sake, but seeing which quantity stays the same and which one changes.
- Change a variable and observe the result
- Read the graph alongside the motion
- Link the behaviour back to the equation
- Return to the same simulation from assigned work
Fourteen interactive areas
The interactive areas follow the structure of the course rather than a separate list of demos.
- Mechanics: Motion and Vectors, Momentum, Stopping Distance, Moments, Forces and Newton's Laws, Hooke's Law
- Energy and Matter: Energy, Particle Model
- Electricity and Magnetism: Electricity and Circuits, Magnetism and Electromagnetism
- Waves and Light: Waves, Light
- Modern Physics: Radioactivity, Space Physics
A full interactive preview of every area is available inside Maxwell during Early Access.
Simulator-linked assignments
Teachers can assign investigations that use an interactive area directly, so exploration and assessed work stay in the same environment.
- Worksheet task
- Open simulation
- Change variable
- Record observation
- Return response
- Submit for review