PhET Simulation: Ladybug Revolution

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This is an interactive simulation on the topic of uniform and nonuniform circular motion. It features a ladybug rotating on a rotating platform. Users can change the location of the ladybug, add a bug of larger mass, change the various initial kinematics quantities, display vectors and graphs of the kinematics quantities.

This item is part of a larger and growing collection of resources developed by the Physics Education Technology project.
SEE RELATED MATERIALS BELOW for a link to clicker questions developed by the PhET team to accompany the Ladybug Revolution simulation.

Please note that this resource requires Flash.

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/rotation

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - Motion in Two Dimensions = 2D Acceleration = 2D Velocity - Rotational Dynamics = Conservation of Angular Momentum	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Interactive Simulation

Intended Users	Formats	Ratings
- Learners - Educators	- application/java - text/html	Currently 0.0/5 Want to rate this material? Login here!

Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2006 University of Colorado, Physics Education Technology
Additional information is available.
Keywords:: angular acceleration, angular momentum, angular velocity, circular motion, rotation, simulation
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created October 28, 2008 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:: February 22, 2025 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: July 21, 2008

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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/introphys/items/detail.cfm?ID=8239">PhET. PhET Simulation: Ladybug Revolution. Boulder: PhET, July 21, 2008.</a>

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