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Physics |
Steve Carabello |
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General Resources Similar Courses Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 |
Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 |
Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 |
| General Resources | Rating | Description |
| Physics at Penn State Harrisburg | ? | The Instructor's web pages. |
| The Learning Center | *** | The Learning Center at PSH, located in Olmsted C-216. A peer physics tutor is available there. |
| Hyperphysics | **** | A very well laid out Web site with descriptions of a wide variety of physics concepts. Very useful as review material. |
| Physics Animations | ***** | Useful animations for any physics course. Some specific ones are also linked in the chapter-specific sections below. |
| Our textbook | *** | Includes Objectives, practice questions, Physlet problems, etc. |
| Student Resources for the 10th Edition of Young and Freedman's University Physics | **** | Includes some good multiple choice problems, etc. |
| Self-Assessment Tests | *** | from the Cutnell and Johnson text |
| Tippens Physics, 7th Edition | *** | Includes online quizzes, interactive applets, etc. |
| Physics Evolution | **** | An applet showing some of the historical evolution of physics, through key people and places. |
| The Scientific Revolution | ** | Excerpts from Brooklyn College's course "The Shaping of the Modern World" |
| A View from the Back of the Envelope | *** | Teaching tools using approximation |
| My Links page | ? | Many links covering many general physics areas. |
| Similar Courses | Rating | Description |
| Physics at University Park | ***** | Note: Click the link for Physics 251 |
| Syllabi and Sample Exams | *** | from Dr. Michael R. Gallis, professor of physics at Penn State Schuylkill. |
| All Physics Undergraduate Courses | ** | from Purdue University. Look at the course titles to find those similar to ours. Most include practice exams, lecture notes, useful links, applets, etc. |
| MIT OpenCourseWare | ***** | Several of the courses include sample exams, and actual given exams, with solutions. Some also include video files of the lectures themselves. Scan through the course titles to find ones similar to this course. |
| Physics 102 | From the University of Illinois. Very similar to Physics 151. Much of the information is password-protected, but the Practice Exams are still accessible, and they also use Interactive Examples that are very good (and aren't linked from the first link). | |
| Sample exams from Physics 2 at the University of Florida | Roughly analogous to our Physics 151 course. | |
| Physics 208 | From the University of Delaware. Quite similar to Physics 212 (the calculus-based electricity & magnetism course here at PSH), including several sample exams under the "Exams" link, plus some very useful "Study Tips" for any physics course. | |
| PHY 3021: Electromagnetism and Optics | From the University of Texas at Austin. Includes only lecture notes, but those are very extensive, and include a number of worked problems for each topic. | |
| Optics 200 | Some decent lecture notes (look under "syllabus"), useful for our Physics 151 or Physics 214. | |
| Lecture notes for PHYS1008: Elementary University Physics II | At Carleton University (Ottawa): rather well-done, and useful for Physics 151. | |
| Physics 231 | At Michigan State University: pretty similar to Physics 150 plus Physics 151 put together. |
| Chapter 10: Temperature and Kinetic Theory | Rating | Description |
| Physlets | *** | Applet: a simplified view of atomic motion. Under "Version 3" click on "Molecular" then click on "Start" or "Mixture" |
| 3D simulator | * | Applet: masses on springs, with quite a bit of damping. Somewhat useful for showing motions of solids. |
| Bimetallic strip | ** | Video Clip: the changes in shape with temperature of a bimetallic strip. |
| Track Systems Research | ** | Images: heat can cause railroad tracks to buckle. |
| Gas law Physlet problems from the textbook's web site | **** | Applets and Problems |
| Boyle's Law | ***** | Flashlet |
| Charles' Law | ***** | Flashlet |
| Ice Bomb | ** | Video clip: shows that water expands when forming ice, leading to huge pressures. |
| Crushing cans and steel drums | ** | Video clips. Also see a video of a "Cartesian Diver" |
| Various animations etc. of molecular systems | * | A set of links to various animations etc. of molecular systems. I thought "JSpringies applet" was a rather good one. |
| Molecular Model of Ideal Gas | **** | Applet |
| Molecular Model of Ideal Gas 2 | *** | Applet. Shows the particles rather well, along with a speed distribution. |
| Chapter 11: Heat | Rating | Description |
| An Extension of the Imploding Can Demonstration | **** | Demonstration description: click on the link for "An Extension of the Imploding Can Demonstration" under May 2006. |
| Chapter 12: Thermodynamics | Rating | Description |
| The Otto cycle in a Four Stroke Engine | *** | Animation |
| The Carnot cycle | *** | Applet |
| Combustion Engines | ** | Applets |
| Diesel Engine | *** | Animation and Description |
| Chapter 15: Electric Charge, Forces, and Fields | Rating | Description |
| Electricity and Magnetism Animations | *** | Animations: In this chapter, we will use the "Electric Field Lines" animations. |
| Static Electricity | ** | Course Content: A pretty good description of static electricity and Van de Graaf generators |
| Static Electricity (Comprehensive) | **** | Course Content: A comprehensive description of most of the phenomena associated with static electricity. |
| Van de Graff Generator | *** | Video and Description: 4 different activities, including the puffed wheat demo described in class. |
| 3-D Electrostatic Fields | ***** | Applet |
| E-field lines | ** | Applet: showing continuous electric field lines (static charges only) |
| Charges in motion, E-field plotting | ***** | Applet: showing how charges tend to move when near other charges. E-fields and "walls" may be turned on or off. |
| More E-field/equipotential plotting | ** | Applet: uses a more traditional depiction of E-field lines, but is most useful only for static charges. |
| E-field Lines Physlet Exercise | *** | Applet |
| Interpreting Electric Field Lines | *** | Applet and Problem: Click "Guest Access" then "Enter" |
| E-field plotting for dipoles | ** | Applet: You can change the strengths of each charge, as well as their separation distance, very easily |
| Chapter 16: Electric Potential, Energy, and Capacitance | Rating | Description |
| Charges in motion, E-field plotting | ***** | Applet: same link as in Ch. 15, but note that you can also turn on/off equipotential lines. |
| Electrostatic Potential Applet | *** | Applet: Place point charges on the screen, and observe a nice high-resolution plot of electric potential. |
| Ranking Electric Potential | *** | Applet and problem |
| Electric fields, field lines, and equipotential curves | *** | Applet |
| 2-D Electrostatics | *** | Applet: Shows E-fields and equipotential lines for various configurations |
| 2-D Electrostatic Fields Applet | ***** | Applet: Shows electric potential using perspective views of the topographic map analogy. |
| Equipotential lines, electric fields, etc. | *** | Applets and Problems |
| Drawing Equipotential Lines and Interpreting them - 1 | *** | Applet and Problems |
| Applet and Problems: Drawing Equipotential Lines and Interpreting them - 2 | *** | Applet and Problems |
| CAPACITOR COMPLAINTS | **** | Information: a very useful way of visualizing capacitors, together with several discussions of many common misleading statements of many textbooks (including our own). |
| Chapter 17: Electric Current and Resistance | Rating | Description |
| Resistor Color Codes and Examples | ** | Course Content: From "All About Circuits," there's useful information about all the electrical concepts we cover. |
| Resistor Caclulator script | *** | Script: Simple but slick, showing resistors visually, along with their values. |
| Chapter 18: Basic Electric Circuits | Rating | Description |
| Charging a Capacitor | * | Applet: Adjust the resistance and capacitance that are in series with an EMF and a switch. Observe a graph of the potential difference across the capacitor, or the current through the resistor, as a function of time. |
| Chapter 19: Magnetism | Rating | Description |
| Electricity and Magnetism Animations | **** | Animations: In this chapter, we will use the "Motion of a Charge in a Magnetic Field" and "Sources of Magnetic Fields" animations. |
| Vector Animations | *** | Animations: In this chapter, the "Right Hand Rule" animations may be useful. |
| Motion of charges in E and B fields | *** | Applet |
| Lorentz Force | ** | Applet: Firing a charge to the right, into a region where the field is perpendicular to the screen. Adjust the initial velocity, and the strength of the magnetic field. |
| Moving charges using magnets in a TV tube | **** | Applet and discussion |
| 3-D Magnetostatic Fields | ***** | Applet |
| Magnetic Field for Wire, Cylinder, Coaxial cable | ** | Applet |
| B-fields | ** | Applets: Follow the link on the left to "BField" and try the different options. |
| Another World Record in Magnet Development | * | News Story: 21.1 Tesla, Superconducting NMR Magnet for Chemical and Biomedical Research |
| Magnetic fields are used by birds | * | News Story: Such birds appear to calibrate their "internal compasses" at sunset. |
| Ferrofluid | ** | Video |
| Geomagnetism Links | *** | Course Content: NOAA links to many useful sites regarding the earth's magnetic field. |
| Diamagnetic levitation | **** | Videos: One of many sites dealing with diamagnetic levitation - includes the floating frog. |
| Chapter 20: Electromagnetic Induction and Waves | Rating | Description |
| Electricity and Magnetism Animations | *** | Animations: In this chapter, we will use the "Electromagnetic Waves" animations at the bottom of the page. |
| Propagation of an Electromagnetic Wave | *** | Applet |
| Chapter 21: AC Circuits | Rating | Description |
| L-C circuit | *** | Applet: Seeing oscillations in an LC circuit |
| Analog Circuit Simulator | * | Applet |
| Chapter 22: Reflection and Refraction of Light | Rating | Description |
| Light in air and water: reflection and refraction | ** | Applet |
| Dispersion | *** | Applet: How water droplets make a rainbow |
| Huygens' Principle: Reflection and Refraction | *** | Applet |
| Ripple Tank | **** | Applet: For this chapter, see the "Setups:" "Refraction", "Internal Reflection", "Right Angle Prism," and "Porro Prism" |
| Chapter 23: Mirrors and Lenses | Rating | Description |
| Ray Tracing | **** | Applet |
| Virtual Optics | ** | Applet: ray tracing. I find the above applet better for simple cases, though this can have more elements shown at once. |
| Spherical Aberration and Aperture Size | *** | Animation |
| Chromatic Aberration | *** | Animation |
| Contributions to Coma Aberration from Different Parts of the Lens | ** | Animation |
| The Book of Phyz: Mirrors and Lenses | **** | Course Content: Sample problems, good ray tracing rules (with odd names), etc. |
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