Wave 111 — 10 New Simulations

Wave 111 is live. Ten new interactive simulations span acoustics, biochemistry, neuroscience, climate science, crystallography, traffic engineering, quantum mechanics, epidemiology, geomorphology, and biophysics — plus 100 new UK content sections, 10 new articles, and 5 new blog posts.

Wave 111 arrives with the widest disciplinary spread of any release this year. From the way sound pressure waves radiate through a medium to the nanoscale forces that trap living cells in focused laser beams, this wave covers ten phenomena that share one feature: they are far easier to grasp when you can interact with them directly than when you read equations on a static page.

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The 10 New Simulations

🔊 Sound Propagation
Visualise pressure wavefronts expanding from a point source, reflection at boundaries, and the Doppler effect for moving sources.
🧬 Protein Folding
Watch a simplified amino acid chain minimise its energy through hydrophobic collapse and hydrogen bonding toward a stable 2D conformation.
🧠 Neural Oscillations
Simulate coupled Hodgkin-Huxley neurons, synchronisation phenomena, and the emergence of alpha, beta, and gamma frequency bands.
🌿 Carbon Cycle
Track carbon flux between atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, and lithosphere. Adjust fossil fuel emission rates and observe atmospheric CO₂ over centuries.
💎 Crystal Optics
Explore birefringence, polarisation rotation, and Bragg diffraction as light passes through anisotropic crystal structures.
🚦 Traffic Intersection
Model vehicle queuing, signal timing optimisation, and throughput at a signalised intersection using cellular automaton traffic rules.
⚛️ Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
Visualise energy eigenstates, wave functions ψₙ(x), probability densities, and zero-point energy for any quantum number n.
🦠 Epidemic Network
Run SIR and SEIR epidemic models on configurable contact networks. Vary R₀, vaccination coverage, and network topology to see outbreak dynamics.
🏜 Sand Dune Formation
Simulate aeolian saltation transport and the self-organisation of barchan, transverse, and star dunes under varying wind regimes.
🔬 Optical Tweezers
Trap and drag microscopic particles in a focused Gaussian laser beam. Explore gradient force, scattering force, and Brownian motion competition.

Content Update: 100 UK Sections, 10 Articles, 5 Blog Posts

Alongside the new simulations, Wave 111 ships the 100c content batch: 100 new UK-focused content sections added to existing simulation pages. These sections provide localised context — UK university curricula references, A-level and GCSE connections, UK research institution links, and worked examples using SI units and UK conventions. The batch spans every major simulation category from mechanics to quantum physics.

The wave also includes 10 new deep-dive articles in the Learning section, covering topics from quantum harmonic oscillator energy levels (with Hermite polynomial derivations) to the fluid dynamics of sound propagation and the statistical mechanics of epidemic spreading on networks. Each article is paired with its simulation and cross-linked to related content.

Five new blog posts accompany this wave: this devlog, a teacher guide on using browser simulations in class, a quantum mechanics simulation guide, and two further posts exploring the science behind specific simulations. All five are indexed in the blog archive.

Milestone context: Wave 111 is the 111th simulation release on mysimulator.uk. The platform now hosts over 1,100 interactive simulations covering physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, computer science, and earth sciences — all running in the browser with no installation required.

What Comes Next

Wave 112 planning is under way. Current targets include magnetohydrodynamics, topological defects in liquid crystals, Turing pattern formation with adjustable reaction-diffusion parameters, and a revisit of the double pendulum with Lyapunov exponent computation. The Ukrainian language layer continues to expand in parallel, with translations for all Wave 111 simulations queued.

All ten Wave 111 simulations are live now at mysimulator.uk. If you spot an issue or have a suggestion for a simulation you would like to see, the contact page is always open.