Supplemental Reading and Useful Links
Supplmental Readings:R. P. Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter R. P. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton & M. L. Sands, Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III (quantum mechanics Check out: Lecture 6: Probability and Uncertainty - The Quantum Mechanical View of Nature. |
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General Links
- PhET: Physics Educaiton Technology Project --- many of the simulations used in class
- Download units conversion program
- Electric Field Applet
- Mathcad Voltage mapper
- Wolfgang Christian Physlets
- More Physics Applets
- Giancoli's Physics web site (interactive applets, quizzes, MCAT example problems, etc.)
- CU directories
- Gamow Tower Weather Station
- Physics Question of the Month
- Fourier Synthesis Applet
- Download the Orbit Simulator Gravity4
- Download wave *.avi files
- ITS download page (download cc32e45.exe, Netscape 4.5, to get Java 1.1)
- My Java class homepage
- Newton's Orbit Thought Experiment
- Physics 2000 Homepage
- Official Atomic Clock Time (am I late for class?)
- Satellites visible from Boulder this week
- Prof. Steven Pollock's personal physics bookmarks
- Images of famous scientists
Optics Applets
Telescope/Space Science Web sites:
- Hubble Space Telescope Pictures.
- NASA NEAR Mission (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous)
- Download movie of rotating asteroid Eros.
- NASA TV (live coverage)
- Hear a Pulsar (rotating neutron star).
- 2001 The Movie: How was it done?
- Project Galileo - Jupiter Orbiter
- Chandra X-Ray Observatory
- Keck and other giant telescopes
- Spy Satellite Web page.