Phys 1002 Useful Links
Links will be added here as they are mentioned in class. Future links were once useful in the past, will update them as we get there, but if you want to poke around ahead, great!
The textbook's webpage.
A Moodle site: used as a place to put the clicker responses. You'll need to log in once to associate your clicker ID with your name. After that, you can check to see if your clicks are getting recorded.
How to trick the physics web servers into thinking you are on campus when you're really at home
The UMD Tutoring Center
UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) with the Physics Dept.
This class uses Mastering Physics. This hopefully came with your textbook, but if not it costs money. Register for this course, ID MPHABIG89885
A bunch of links (animations, tutorials, java applets) to help you understand many different things from electricity and magnetism
A cool electrostatics video from the space station.
A bunch more virtual experiments, including how a DC motor and a generator work.
A levitating superconductor doing neat tricks. The fact that it gets “locked” into place is the action of “levitation” on more than just the up/down axis.
An animation showing how voltage phasors work
Building simple radios using LC resonances, one link and another
A java virtual experiment to show the Doppler effect.
Measure the speed of light using your microwave!
A concave mirror melting stuff with sunlight.
An animation of how refraction works, and another.
Total internal reflection, one demo and another. Applications to optical fiber, diamonds.
Superposition of waves, one animation and another, and a nice slow motion one.
Diffraction stuff – Airy disk and Poisson Spot, on a straight edge (plus a nice one of a two-slit wave tank), and some differently shaped edges.
http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LIGO_web/about/stuff about how it works.
The Bad Astronomer's analysis of “retina display” advertising.
A video game with a slow speed of light.
How to pronounce De Broglie's name.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse, including embedded video. A standing wave resonance in action.
An online interactive periodic table of the elements.
Energy available from fission, in a cartoon.
Radioactive stuff around your house, and about those lantern mantles.
Calculate your own yearly radiation dose at this website.
Future links:
A good youtube video called “Imagining the 10th dimension”, about extra dimensions.
Neutrinos in the New York Times.
Particle properties and other neat stuff.
A way to isolate waste.
Live MINOS data.
The WMAP home page.
Dark Matter as explained by the CDMS people.