Physics for Poets (II)

Supplementary Notes and Illustrations

Some lectures will use supplementary notes or illustrations taken from external web sites. For some other lectures, I might write supplementartes myself. The links to those notes and illustrations will be posted here.

• Electric field lines (CNX web site).
• Electric resistivity (Wikipedia article).
• Magnetic field lines shown by iron filings:
  • bar magnet;
  • another bar magnet;
  • horseshoe magnet;
  • bar magnet versus solenoid;
  • breaking a magnet into 2 halves.
• Dot product and cross product of two vectors (Math-is-Fun articles).
• Ferromagnetism (HyperPhysics article).
• Magnetic torque on a loop of electric current.
• Interference, beats, and standing waves (my notes).
• Illustrations of EM waves, colors, and vision.
• Illustrations of complex waves: diffraction and interference.
• Mirrors and images.
• Refraction of light.
• Ray diagrams and optical devices.
• Early history of atoms (Michael Fowler's web page at UV).
• Timeline of atomic discovery (Lee Buescher's web page).
• Nuclear binding energy (HyperPhysics article).
• Brookhaven National Lab's chart of nuclides.
• Radioactive decay chains (Walter Fendt applet).
• Exponential decay (Walter Fendt applet).
• Chain reaction demo.
• Fission chain reaction.
• Spectral lines:
  • U Tennessy Astronomy page;
  • U Colorado web page and applet.
• Relative motion:
  Different frames of reference (Dr. Hwang's applet). Adding velocities: Boat & river (applet from ThePhysicsTeacher site).
• Dr. Matzner's notes on Relativity.
• Michelson–Morley Experiment (Wikipedia article).