Links
Let me know if you come up with more to add!
Useful, local links:
- Want to review Phys 3310? How about my webpage from last year?
- D2L: We have a page there with solutions to homework and exams, and your personal grade information (updated around midterm times)
- Have you tried the PhET simulations ? Project PhET: Physics Education Technology (CUs collection of simulations)
- Math Physics and Engineering Applets (an impressive collection of applet/simulations, these are a little less intuitive than PheT, but cover a lot more. Check out the visual differential equations solver under "miscellaneous"!).
- Here's a reflection of a simple wave sim (Note that it's old Java code - I had to go into my java security preferences (on a mac) and explicitly allow it to run!) Be patient - the wave does not "move" quickly, but that gives you more time to think about what is going on :-) Try both "fixed" and "free" ends, think about what you are seeing! That site has other nice physics sims too.
Mathematica links:
- We may be using Mathematica this term. If so, please visit this page!
- We have also created some sample pages to help you learn Mathematica. Here are some example notebooks: short version and long version
- Mathematica Integrator This is an online integrator, just type in your indefinite integral (in Mathematica's syntax, of course).
Just for fun links!
- Here's another collection of sims, (most are a little more "freshman level", but there are a few good ones for our course)
- Youtube video showing Lenz' law in action (really impressive eddy current demo)
- Sim for radiation produced by accelerationg charges. Our PhET team has also come up with an excellent radiation sim, check it out!
- Simulation of a radiating electric dipole. You can find movies of these simulations at this MIT link.
- Youtube video that demonstrates (sort of) the "retarded time" signal propagation in a fairly spectacular way, using a slinky. Here's the first answer and another followup "answer".
- Youtubes of Lenz' law in action: falling (but slowly!) objects, and levitating trains
- Check out MIT's web page for their E+M course Their impressive collection of flash and java simluations are here (They also have a link to 36 videotaped lectures ) Here's a nice MIT "falling magnet" simulation/video from that collection.
- The Mechanical Universe TV series is pretty cool. Check out episodes 42 and 43 on relativity! And, if interested, here are two documents (#1 and #2) created by a postdoc in my group to explain relativity at this course level... very pictorial, it's nice!
- Here is a little computer game (from MIT) in which the "physics engine" incorporates special relativity. They are including not just the Lorentz transformations, but also the stuff we have been ignoring: what you SEE (as versus what you "observe" or "measure"), so visual tricks arising from finite speed of light are also present. (That includes relativistic doppler shift effects that impact *color*, for instance) It's very cool, very clever - watch their short trailer (but I suggest you don't start playing it seriously till after your finals! :-)
- Steve Pollock's old Phys 1120 links
- Dubson's Phamous Physics Phaces
- Dubson's Phavorite Physics Places
- Some lightning info
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmC0ygr08tE, a short video showing pretty cool exp'ts with "pilot waves" and classical particles that (in some ways) behave analogolously to quantum systems.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l9gqTzAbXI, an ~8 min video explaining "fundamental units" (and how, soon, the kg will no longer be defined by the standard mass in Paris!) It's pretty cool. (We already don't "measure" the speed of light - it's defined!)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTvcpdfGUtQ, an entertaining video with some ideas relevant to our discussion of the speed of light: "What is the speed of Dark"