These labs were designed by Prof. Chris Orban for Physics 1250 at OSU Marion and they should be generally useful at the high school and college level. No calculus knowledge or prior programming experience is required.
The nice part about these programming labs is that there is no software to install. The compiling and executing and visualization is all done within your web browser! This is accomplished using a programming framework called p5js.org which is very similar to C/C++.
Prof. Orban is eager to collaborate with high school physics teachers! If you are a high school physics teacher please send an e-mail to orban@physics.osu.edu if you are interested in trying this out or getting some training on how to use these exercises in your classroom.
STEMcoding Object Tracker
Here is a paper describing the STEMcoding Object Tracker and how it works
Object Tracker Part 1. Track the Object
Object Tracker Part 2. Analyze Height vs Time
Object Tracker Part 3. Analyze Velocity vs Time
Fun Video on the Physics of Video Games and the motivation of the STEMcoding project!!
Introduction to the Programming Framework (Tutorial Video)
Move the blob
Intro Lab 1. Move-the-blob exercise (Tutorial Video)
Accelerate the blob
Pre-quiz for Accelerate-the-blob
Intro Lab 2. Accelerate-the-blob (Tutorial Video)
Post-quiz for Accelerate-the-blob
Just for fun: Force the Blob (Tutorial Video)
Apollo Moon Landing
Apollo Moon Landing (Tutorial Video)
Bird Launcher
Bird Launcher (Tutorial Video)
Introduction to Planetoids (Coordinate System)
Introduction to Planetoids (Angle System)
Lab 1. Planetoids game (Tutorial Video)
Lab 2. Lunar Descent game (Tutorial Video)
Lab 3. Bellicose Birds game (Tutorial Video)
Pre-quiz for Planetoids with momentum
Lab 4. Planetoids with momentum! (Tutorial Video)
Post-quiz for Planetoids with momentum
Pre-quiz for planetoids with torque
Lab 5. Planetoids with torque! (Video Tutorial)
Post-quiz for planetoids with torque
Pre-quiz for planetoids with a spring
Lab 6. Planetoids with a spring! (Video Tutorial)
Post-quiz for planetoids with a spring
Lab 7. Bellicose birds with energy!
8. Pong!
Lab 8. The Pong game! (Video Tutorial)
9. Bonk.io clone
Lab 9. Bonk.io clone! (Video Tutorial)
Night Sky Simulator! (Video Tutorial)
Slingshot with gravity (Video Tutorial)
Orbital Motion: Kepler's 2nd law
Escape velocity and Newtonian Black Holes (Video Tutorial)
Project Mercury (Part 1. Circular Orbit)
Project Mercury (Part 2. reentry)
Discussion of the unit system (protons have q = +1, m = 1)
Pre-quiz for particle accelerator
Lab 1. Particle Accelerator! (Video Tutorial for Part 1, Part 2 still in progress)
Post-quiz for particle accelerator
Lab 2. Particle Accelerator (with potential!)
3. Point charge repulsion (Video Tutorial)
Pre-quiz for point charge repulsion
Lab 3. Repulsion between two point charges
Post-quiz for point charge repulsion
Lab 5. Magnetic force (a.k.a. Mass Spectrometer) (Video Tutorial)
6. Wave interference (Tutorial Video)