Amusement Park Physics - How do physics laws affect amusement park ride design? Design your own roller coaster and experiment with bumper car collisions.
Analytical Mechanics I - A course on classical mechanics with online lecture notes.
Block and Tackle - Colorful illustrated tutorial shows how a block and tackle (as well as levers and gears) works.
Central Forces with Java - A JAVA applet to simulate orbits in four different central forces: gravity, Yukawa, 1/R^4 and Black Holes
Chaotic Systems - A brief overview of chaos theory and applications in classical mechanics.
Classical Mechanics - A 33 page postscript file for a course on classical mechanics, including Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics.
Classical Mechanics Reviews - A complete set of lectures (via RealPlayer streaming video) on classical mechanics. This set includes the principle of least action, Lagrangians, and Hamiltonians.
Coupled Oscillations - This applet illustrates coupled oscillations of a linear chain of identical noninteracting bodies connected to each other and to fixed endpoints by identical ideal springs. All bodies start from rest, and their initial positions can be set either by sliding them along the track
D'Alembert, Jean
Damped Harmonic Motion - Mathematical Equations of Damped Harmonic Motion
Freshman Problems in Mechanics - Links to various problem sets relating to 1 and 2 dimensional kinematics. Easy mechanics problems and solutions.
Gravity - If you want to learn about gravity come here.
Gyroscope - Graphics, related links and a video combine to show you how gyroscopes work.
Hamilton, Sir William Rowan (1805-1865) - Responsible for Hamilton's Principle and the classical Hamiltonian
Hamilton, William Rowan - The Irish mathematician who laid the foundations for the classical and quantum mechanical equations which bear his name.
Hamilton-Jacobi Equations - A brief review of the Hamilton Jacobi equations of motion.
How a Gyroscope Works - Explanation of why a gyroscope should resist being turned in any direction perpendicular to its axis.
How a Helium Balloon Works - Explanation of lifting capabilities of helium, hydrogen and hot air balloons, from How Stuff Works.
Kepler's Laws - Article in the Platonic Realms. Gives an novice's overview of Kepler's laws.
Lagrange, Joseph Louis
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics - A set of web pages giving an introduction into Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, the most important aspects of classical mechanics.
Los Alamos National Library - A collection of papers on current research into classical physics.
Mechanics - A Harvard course with online lecture notes
Mechanics and Special Relativity - Introduction to Lagrangian mechanics, Noether's theorem, special relativity, collisions and scattering, rotational motion, angular momentum, torque, the moment of inertia tensor, oscillators damped and driven, gravitation, planetary motion, and introduction to cosmology
On a general Method of expressing the Paths of Light,and of the Planets, by the Coefficients of a Characteristic Function - An original paper by William Rowan Hamilton, dated 1833.
Oscillations - Gives a solution on a symmetric, linear, triatomic molecule problem.
Physics at Appleby College - A comprehensive collection of Java Applets on Waves, Sound and Light.
Physics of Sound - Rigorous derivation of sound wave equations from a molecular model of an ideal diatomic gas. General solution of the wave equations. Point source radiating in a moving medium.
Primitive Potentials and Newton's Laws from Symmetry - Symmetry of function. Finding of primitive without integration-summation. Newton's laws of any order. Mechanics of third order.
Rigid Bodies - Separation of motion of center of mass and rotation about a fixed axis.
Roller Coaster Physics - discussion on some of physics
Simple Harmonic Motion - Excellent Site for newbies on learning SHM.
Simple Harmonic Motion-A Graphical Interface - A good site with extensive graphical visualizations. Nice for people who aren't acquainted with advanced mathematics.
The Brachistichrone Problem - A java applet which demonstrates the Brachistichrone problem. This forms a good introduction to the calculus of variations which is important in classical mechanics.
The Controversy over Newton's Gravitational Constant - History of the gravitational constant.
The Lagrange Points - Overview of the Lagrange points of the sun-earth-system. Links to a detailed derivation.
The Physics and Math of Soccer - Dicusses shape of a soccer ball, spin effects, motion of projectiles.
The Principle of Least Action - A brief review of the mathematics and physics involved in the principle of least action.
The Simple Plane Pendulum - This applet illustrates the simple plane pendulum, with or without damping. The user enters the damping coefficient and initial conditions, and the applet animates the pendulum's motion and plots the angular velocity versus the angle. Such a plot is called a phase portrait.