Practice pages for scientific notation, the metric system, and rounding
Galilean relativity
Dropping a ball, as viewed in two different reference frames
Two-source interference
Young's experiment again, with explanation
Sound interference: beats
Optional:
More sound interference: noise canceling headphones and car mufflers
Week 2 review questions
Electromagnetic induction
Electromagnetic waves
Michelson-Morley experiment
Week 4 review questions
Photon clock
Tutorial on the photon clock and time dilation
Twin paradox
Pole-barn paradox
Week 5 review questions
Spacetime diagrams
Relativity of simultaneity using spacetime diagrams
Time dilation and length contraction as spacetime geometry: a simple paradox involving light and its resolution
Spacetime interval
Week 7 review questions
Animations about the equivalence principle and spacetime curvature
Equivalence principle and experimental consequences (don't worry about the math)
High-precision tests of the equivalence principle for individual atoms (complete with video
Einstein's rotating disk thought experiment (and the bending of light by gravitational fields)
Optional:
A 2004 atomic-scale test of the equivalence principle
Week 8 review questions
Brownian motion
J. J. Thomson and electrons
Blackbody radiation
Another blackbody page and an astronomical application
Pages one (follow the links) and two (follow the "next" link) on the photoelectric effect
Rutherford scattering experiment (keep clicking "next page")
Optional:
Another animation of the Rutherford gold foil experiment
Week 9 review questions
Spectra (follow the links)
Emission and absorption line spectra as inverses of each other
The Bohr atom and its explanation of emission and absorption lines
PBS's Science Odyssey on Rutherford and Bohr
Shockwave animation about the Bohr model of the atom
Bohr's explanation of the periodic table
Week 10 review questions
LasersWeek 12
Lasers and masers in space
Electron "de Broglie waves" and diffraction patterns
Comparison of X-ray vs. electron diffraction
Electron microscopes, including scanning electron microscopes
Neat pictures of tiny things (and here's a link for slow connections)
Neutron interference
Entire atoms can act like waves
Pictures of probability clouds
Animations of the Bohr model, the Schrödinger model, and electron clouds ("orbitals")
(Some of the preceding animations require the Shockwave plugin)
The periodic table explained via four quantum numbers
A summary of quantum numbers and orbital shapes
Week 13 review questions
Video of the electron double-slit experiment
John Gribbin on the weirdness of quantum mechanics
Schrödinger's original description of the cat paradox
PHY 110: Previous Links
Written by Chris Magri
URL: http://academic.umf.maine.edu/~magri/phy110e/prevLinks.html