Teach Engineering
Curb the Epidemic!
Class members use an applet on the Internet to simulate the spread of a disease. The simulation allows individuals to determine two nodes to vaccinate to limit the number of nodes infected. By running several simulations, scholars...
University of Utah
University of Utah: Java Area Applet
Nice site explaining how to find the area under a curve by using a Java applet. The applet computes the area of a figure made of rectangles which approximates the region under the given curve.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Square Root
This interactive Java applet allows students to visualize what a square root is and how to approximate it.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Estimate the Area Under a Curve
You can have a good time with this java applet that lets you place adjustable shapes under a curve and then sums the areas to approximate the area of the curve.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Slope of a Line Segment
This interactive Java applet allows visualization of line segments and their slopes. The slope and how it is found is given for each line drawn by the user.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: The Exponential Function
This interactive Java applet allows students to view numerous exponential functions by manipulating the constants in an exponential function.
Rice University
Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics: Sampling Distributions
This Java Applet lets you explore various aspects of sampling distributions.
Mathematics Archives
Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Tangent Lines
This is a detailed site concerning tangent lines to curves. The site gives the limiting definition of the slope of the tangent. This site has a link to a discussion and animation of the approaching secant line, a java applet for the...
University of Oregon
Virtual Laboratory: Thermodynamic Equilibrium
An interactive Java applet which depicts gas diffusion and emphasizes the importance of thermal equilibrium. Directions and challenges available.
University of Vienna (Austria)
Trigonometry: Law of Sines
This is demonstration of how the law of sines works. It uses Java applets to manipulate the triangle and allows the user to explore what happens to the values of the triangle as the sides are changed.
University of Vienna (Austria)
Maths Online: Recognize Functions 3
An excellent place to test your ability to recognize the graphs of sine and cosine and their various associated forms. A Java applet is also included to plot your own function.
Curated OER
Polynomial Functions of the First Degree
A java applet that lets you graph a first degree polynomial and see how changing the coefficients changes the graph.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Linear Inequality Graph
Learn Alberta offers an interactive Java applet to manipulate and view all types of graphs of linear equations and inequalities.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Linear Programming Graph
This interactive Java applet allows the user to construct up to 5 linear inequalities and view the graph of the soultion.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Multiplicative Process Program
The mathematics resource uses a downloadable java applet to simulate the outcome of a product of random numbers. Examples of multiplicative processes include the distributions of incomes and rainfall.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Graphing Parabolas
WebMath offers a java applet that allows you to input the equation of a parabola, in one of many forms, and gives you a graph of the parabola along with an explanation of how the graph was drawn.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Graph a Line
WebMath offers a java applet that allows you to input the slope of a line and a point on the line and gives you the equation, in slope-intercept form, of the line with the given slope that passes through the point. It also includes a...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Graph a Circle
WebMath offers a java applet that allows you to input information about a circle, in one of four forms, and gives you the graph of the circle.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Graphing Ellipses
WebMath offers a java applet that allows you to input information about an ellipse, in one of four forms, and gives you the graph of the ellipse.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Graphing Hyperbolas
WebMath offers a java applet that allows you to input information about hyperbolas in one of eight forms and gives you the graph of the hyperbola.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Find Equation of Line Given That You Know Its Slope and Y Intercept
WebMath offers a java applet that allows you to input the slope and y-intercept of a line and gives you the equation of the line in slope-intercept form. It also gives a detailed solution using the information that you provided.
NASA
Nasa: Goddard Institute for Space Studies: Time on Mars
This site provides a Java-based program called Mars24. You can download this to your computer to keep track of time on Mars.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Torus Math: Spherical Geometry Demo
A java applet on this site illustrates the principles or spherical geometry.
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
University of Saskatchewan: Composition of Functions
This unique site allows one to enter two functions from a list of options, graphs both functions and their composition, then allows the user to trace any of the three via the java applet.