Dispersion Software LLC provides interactive physics simulation activities for college-level introductory courses. Its platform is designed to strengthen students’ conceptual understanding and data-analysis skills through lab-like investigations involving data collection and interpretation. Rather than relying on idealized scenarios, the simulations reflect real equipment and experimental data, incorporating factors such as air drag, friction, instrument latency, and variation in experimental conditions.

This gives students different outcomes and opportunities to explore precision and accuracy. Activities combine simulations with carefully designed multiple-choice and short-answer questions guided by stated learning outcomes. Multiple-choice responses can receive immediate explanatory feedback, while short-answer prompts ask students to demonstrate their reasoning.

Instructors can select activities for their courses and use the platform to monitor student progress and provide individualized feedback. The materials can support pre-lab assignments, homework, classroom instruction, or online lab courses. Topics include motion, Newton’s laws, energy, collisions, torque, simple harmonic motion, and Archimedes’ principle; calorimetry is listed as coming soon.

Registration provides students six months of access to one course