iLabs Forces

About Forces · Physics

Physics you can drag, slide and measure

Free, open tools for students who learn better by seeing motion than by reading about it — eleven interactive sandboxes plus animated modern-physics explainers, all in the browser.

Forces — part of iLabs — is a free set of browser-based physics learning tools built for students: a mechanics playground (projectile motion, free fall, collisions, pendulum, spring-mass and circular-motion SHM with force vectors, energy bars and live graphs, and s-t graphs), a work, power & energy lab (work at an angle, the work–energy theorem on a rough slope, energy conservation on a loop-the-loop track and the power of a car and a motor), a Newton's laws & friction lab (force and motion, static and kinetic friction, a block on a rough incline, strings, contact forces and a person on a scale in a lift), a circuit builder (a custom series/parallel circuit of up to 15 resistors, bulbs and capacitors with live current/voltage readouts and an animated current-flow view), a refraction & prisms lab (Snell's law, total internal reflection, a prism with dispersion, an optical fibre and the lens-maker's formula with ray tracing), an optics lab (ray diagrams for mirrors and lenses), a waves & sound lab (standing waves, interference, the Doppler effect), a rotational motion sandbox (torque, a rolling-shapes race, angular momentum conservation), a thermodynamics visualizer (a kinetic-theory gas box with measured pressure, and a PV-diagram piston sandbox), and an electricity & magnetism lab (traced field lines, electromagnetic induction, an R-L-C phasor diagram), a logic gate lab (wire up to 10 AND/OR/NOT/NAND/NOR/XOR/XNOR gates and check the answer with a slow, explained reveal), plus animated modern physics explainers on the Bohr model, the photoelectric effect and semiconductor bands, alongside a learn section, mini-games, a quiz and a constants reference. No sign-up, works on any device, always free.

Why this exists

Physics gets taught as formulas to memorise long before students ever see the motion, the circuit, or the ray those formulas describe. Forces flips that: drag the pendulum, build the circuit, move the object past the lens — and watch the graph or the image form in real time, then connect it back to the equation.

Forces brings together eleven interactive labs, three animated explainers, ten practice games, a 151-question quiz and a constants reference — built the same way as Re-agents (iLabs' chemistry side): one real, verified simulation at a time rather than a big all-at-once promise.

Frequently asked questions

What is Forces?

iLabs' physics lab: eleven interactive labs (mechanics, work, power & energy, Newton's laws & friction, refraction & prisms, circuits, optics, waves & sound, rotation, thermodynamics, electricity & magnetism, logic gates), three modern-physics explainers, ten practice games, a 151-question quiz and a constants reference — for classes 9 to 12.

Is Forces free? Do I need an account?

Every tool is free with no account or sign-up.

Who is it for?

School students following classes 9 to 12 physics, and anyone who learns better by watching a simulation than by reading about one. Advanced topics are planned.

Is Forces part of something bigger?

Forces is iLabs's physics lab, alongside Re-agents for chemistry and Shunya for maths.