Subject entry8 topics62 concepts12 starter tracks1 bridge1700 min

Physics

Enter the current physics catalog through live motion, waves, fields, circuits, and modern-physics benches that still share one compact simulation-first product language.

Physics is still the broadest branch in Open Model Lab, but it no longer has to stand in for the whole product. Use this subject page when you want the main physics topics, starter tracks, and best-first concepts framed together before you commit to one branch.

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Starter tracks

Start with a bounded path before branching wider.

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Starter track3 concepts75 min2 checkpoints

Motion and Circular Motion

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Start with vector components, move into projectile paths, and then use circular motion to understand how velocity can keep changing direction.

ComponentsTrajectoriesCentripetal acceleration

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1Vectors and Components

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2Projectile Motion

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3Uniform Circular Motion

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Vectors and Components opens this track and sets up the rest of the path.

Start track Jump to Vectors

Starter track5 concepts135 min3 checkpoints

Gravity and Orbits

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Start with one source mass creating a field and potential well, then use that same gravity model to explain circular speed, orbital periods, and the escape threshold.

Inverse-square fieldPotential wellCircular-year timingEscape threshold

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1Gravitational Fields

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2Gravitational Potential and Potential Energy

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3Circular Orbits and Orbital Speed

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4Kepler's Third Law and Orbital Periods

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5Escape Velocity

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Gravitational Fields opens this track and sets up the rest of the path.

Start track Jump to Gravity fields

Starter track6 concepts160 min2 checkpoints

Electricity

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Start with source charges and voltage, then carry that same circuit story into current, power, branch behavior, and equivalent resistance.

Field causeVoltage bridgePower and energyBranch reduction

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1Electric Fields

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2Electric Potential

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3Basic Circuits

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4Power and Energy in Circuits

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5Series and Parallel Circuits

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6Equivalent Resistance

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Electric Fields opens this track and sets up the rest of the path.

Start track Jump to E-fields

Cross-subject bridge

Keep the bridge visible when it genuinely connects subjects.

Starter track2 concepts50 min2 checkpoints

Vectors and Motion Bridge

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Start with vectors as geometric objects on a 2D plane, then carry the same component language into the existing motion-facing vectors bench.

Magnitude and directionAddition and subtraction

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1Vectors in 2D

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2Vectors and Components

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Vectors in 2D opens this track and sets up the rest of the path.

Start track Jump to 2D vectors

Topics

Use topics when you want the subject shaped into a clearer map.

TopicPhysics15 concepts400 min3 starter tracks

Mechanics

Use vectors, balance and rotational cause, angular momentum, trajectories, gravity fields and potential, circular orbits, orbital periods, escape thresholds, impulse, conservation, and collisions to read motion and interactions on the same simulation-first surface.

Vector foundationsTwo-dimensional motionTurning effects of force

Best first concepts

Vectors Projectile

Open topic Start Vectors

TopicPhysics12 concepts310 min3 starter tracks

Oscillations and Waves

Follow repeating motion from one oscillator into traveling waves, sound as a longitudinal wave, pitch-versus-loudness cues, beats from nearby frequencies, Doppler shifts from motion, superposition, standing patterns, and driven resonance.

FoundationsEnergy in SHMCircular model

Best first concepts

SHM Wave speed

Open topic Start SHM

TopicPhysics6 concepts160 min1 starter track

Electricity

Move from source charges and voltage into simple loops, power, branch behavior, and equivalent resistance without leaving the same compact electricity path.

Field and forcePotential and voltageCircuits and Ohm's law

Best first concepts

E-fields Circuits

Open topic Start E-fields

Best first concepts

Start with one strong concept when you do not need the full path yet.

PhysicsMechanicsIntro25 minNot startedMastery: New

Vectors and Components

Rotate and scale a live vector, decompose it into horizontal and vertical parts, and watch those components drive the same straight-line motion and geometry.

MagnitudeAngle

Open concept

PhysicsOscillationsGood first conceptIntro25 minNot startedMastery: New

Simple Harmonic Motion

See one repeating system from displacement to acceleration and back again, with the math tied directly to the motion on screen.

AmplitudePhase

Strong first concept for getting into the current catalog.

Open concept

PhysicsElectricityIntro25 minNot startedMastery: New

Electric Fields

See how source-charge sign, distance, and superposition set the electric field at one probe, then watch a test charge turn that field into a force without changing the field itself.

Field directionSuperposition

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