Private company

PhET Interactive Simulations

Non-profit open educational resource project

PhET Interactive Simulations, a project at the University of Colorado Boulder, is a non-profit open educational resource project that creates and hosts explorable explanations. It was founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

PhET Colorado Diffusion Simulation
Photo: PhET, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

PhET Interactive Simulations, a project at the University of Colorado Boulder, is a non-profit open educational resource project that creates and hosts explorable explanations. It was founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman.2

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3