Phy 1011 Useful Links

Below are a collection of links mentioned in last semester's lectures. As we cover our own material this semester, this will get updated. For now, you might find these an interesting preview.

Generally Useful Links:

• UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) with the Physics Dept.

• Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Links mentioned in Lectures:

• Eratosthenes, one clever dude.

• Pseudoscience stuff from the Skeptic's Dictionary:

  • UFOs.

  • Astrology.

  • Creationism.

• Isaac Newton and alchemy.

• Wave motion animations, longitudinal, transverse, both, water waves.

• 2D wave interference: cartoon, ripple tank.

• On online, interactive periodic table.

• A good cartoon on why some pseudoscience probably doesn't actually work well.

• Flying clocks around the world – the Hafele-Keating experiment.

• Those pegs and marbles – a Galton Box.

• The Schroedinger Wave Equation hits MTV.

• Schroedinger's Cat.

• Justin's talk, full of links we didn't have a chance to explore.