Useful links, 2020

Some useful (or just fun) links for this course:

Here is a Lovely lens applet!

Giancoli's web site. (Giancoli, 5th edition)
Practice problems, MCAT preparation and lots more good stuff!

Physics 2000 Applets of direct relevance to material we're covering:

Electric Force Applet

Electric Field Applet

Polarization of Water Applet

How an LCD display works (with an applet about controlling molecules with E fields, a nice "visualizing E field" demo)

Here are lots of nice Quicktime Movies showing field lines (including the demo of the "eddy currents" I showed in class) from MIT.

Old course pages

Prof. Roger's 2020 home page from last year (with e.g. old exams and solutions)
Prof. Dubson's 2020 home page from 2 years ago (with e.g. old exams and solutions)
Prof. Cinquini's 2020 home page from 2 years ago (with e.g. old exams and solutions)
My last semester's 2010 home page

Other useful or interesting links

Physics 2000. Modern physics ideas, simply presented, with some nifty Java applets.
How things work. Introductory physics taught from a different point of view.
(Also has a wonderful "answers to physics questions" section)
A recipe for success in Physics 2020.

And, just for fun...

Some metric humor.
Hubble Space Telescope Pictures.
Official atomic clock time (Am I starting lectures too late?)
Flashing Iridium (and other) satellites visible from Boulder, this week!
Can you find where you live on this spy satellite picture?
My own personal set of physics/science links.

Physics 2020 home page. Prof. Pollock's home page. Physics Dep't
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