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Top links for Physics #1

Basic Introductory Courses

 

• Introductory Classical Mechanics

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/301/301.pdf

 

• Optics and Thermodynamics & Electromagnetism

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/316/316.pdf
2. http://seagull.ukzn.ac.za/~mukaror/
3. http://www.sicyon.com/resources/library/pdf/optics.pdf

 

 

• Waves and Oscilations

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/315/Waves.pdf
2. http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~bernd/F12MS3/
3. http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/152.mf1i.spring02/OscWavesIndex.htm

 

• Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/sm1/statmech.pdf
2. http://www.spms.ntu.edu.sg/PAP/courseware/statmech.pdf
3. http://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/Phys603/kelly/
4. http://stp.clarku.edu/notes/

 

• Electronics

1. http://openbookproject.net/electricCircuits/

 

• Computational Physics

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/329/329.pdf
2. http://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/CourseWare/EssentialMathematica/
3. http://www.cmth.ph.ic.ac.uk/people/a.mackinnon/Lectures/compphys/
4. http://math.fullerton.edu/mathews/numerical.html

 

• Introductory Quantum Mechanics

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/qmech/qmech.pdf
2. http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/home.html
3. http://walet.phy.umist.ac.uk/QM/QM.pdf
4. Video - http://physicsstream.ucsd.edu/courses/spring2003/physics130a/
5. http://quantummechanics.ucsd.edu/ph130a/130_notes.pdf

 

• Classical And Quantum Optics

1. http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~jones/ap216/lectures/lectures.html

 

UPPER DIVISION COURSES

 

• Classical Mechanics

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/336k/Newton.pdf
2. http://www.phys.psu.edu/~lammert/419/notes.html
3. http://www.physto.se/~ingemar/anmek.pdf
4. http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~rollinsr/phys605/
5. http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/dynamics.htm
6. http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~phys16/2004_lectures/
7. http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~golwala/ph106ab/ph106ab_notes.pdf
8. http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~maloney/451/

 

• Classical Electromagnetism

1. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/em.html
2. http://monopole.ph.qmw.ac.uk/~bill/emt/LecNotes.html
3. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/teach/module_home/px436/notes
4. http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~alan/MT3601/Fundamentals/Fundamentals.html
5. http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy122/Lecture_Notes/Index.html
6. Video of Landau Level -  http://vubeam.pa.msu.edu/lectures/phy962/962d/electrodynamics/

 

 

• Solid State physics

1. http://physics.unl.edu/~tsymbal/teaching/SSP-927/index.shtml
2. http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~nayak/solid_state.pdf
3. http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/LectureNotes.pdf

• Plasma Physics

1. http://physweb.bgu.ac.il/COURSES/PlasmaGedalin/introplasma.pdf
2. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/plasma/plasma.html

 

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Different modes of oscillation for a pendulum

The period of a simple pendulum is not a trivial thing, and it depends on the initial conditions.

Shown here are ten different modes of oscillation for the same pendulum. The only difference is the total amount of mechanical energy in the system.

As a result, each one has a completely different period of oscillation, unlike what the small-angle approximation (as taught in high-school) would suggest. They can’t be in sync. You may see some really interesting patterns based on the delay between them in your browser.

The red graph above each pendulum represents the phase portrait for the respective mode of oscillation, with the current state marked as a blue dot. The horizontal axis represents angle (hence why it wraps around the sides) while the vertical axis represents angular velocity.

Pendulums are very interesting dynamical systems, as they are relatively simple to understand but can produce surprisingly complex results in certain cases, such as the chaotic behavior of double pendulums and the odd behavior displayed by coupled pendulums.

thespacegoat:

Hubble Images are Produced, Not Taken

Images must be woven together from the incoming data from the cameras, cleaned up and given colors that bring out features that eyes would otherwise miss. In this video from HubbleSite, a Hubble-imaged galaxy comes together on the screen.