From Year 9 classrooms to university research labs, PHYSIX fits wherever physics needs to be seen and felt rather than just read.
PHYSIX is used in BINAS-linked Dutch secondary schools, IB schools, GCSE courses, and AP Physics curricula. Every preset is tagged to a specific curriculum concept.
Load a preset in 3 seconds and project it on the board. Students watch equations evolve in real time — the energy readout in the topbar shows E_kin, E_pot, and E_total continuously.
Assign students a PHYSIX experiment: "Find the launch angle that maximises range on the Moon." They adjust parameters, record results, and compare to formula predictions.
Every preset fires a notification with the relevant BINAS formula. Students can run the simulation and check that the numbers match their formula booklet — bridging theory and practice.
Share a link to a specific preset. Students explore it at home before the lesson and arrive with observations and questions instead of blank faces.
Use PHYSIX as a quick sanity-check tool before running full numerical simulations. The 4th-order RK integrator gives reliable short-to-medium timescale results for gravitational systems.
Demonstrate Coulomb scattering, cyclotron motion, and Lenz's law to first-year students visually, then have them derive the mathematics from what they see.
The double pendulum preset is an ideal classroom tool for demonstrating sensitive dependence on initial conditions without complex numerical tools.
The rocket body models Tsiolkovsky's equation directly. Students can dial in exhaust velocity and mass flow rate and see the resulting Δv in real time.
Prototype spring-mass-damper systems before writing any code. Tune k and damping coefficients visually until the response looks right, then transcribe the values.
Model restitution coefficients for packaging design. Load three spheres with different e values and drop them from the same height — see which material absorbs the most energy.
Some of the most creative uses come from people who aren't studying physics formally — they're just curious.