PhET Balancing Act
Places masses on a plank to balance it and discover the lever principle.
Artifact by PhET Interactive Simulations (University of Colorado Boulder)
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Opens phet.colorado.edu in a new tab. Nothing to install.
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- Mass placement
- You get
- Balance state
- Account
- No sign-up needed
- AI
- No AI: a plain tool
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- Price
- Free to use
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- Open-source web app
- Source
- Open source
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- Answered on Oct 31, 2026
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Details
- Auth
- No auth
- License
- Open source
- Repository
- github.com/phetsims/balancing-act
- First seen
- Oct 31, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 31, 2026
- Source
- GitHub
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PhET Balancing Act: free online tool. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/artifacts/phet-balancing-act (last updated 2026-10-31)