| General Resources |
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Description |
| Physics at Penn State Harrisburg |
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The Instructor's web pages. |
| The Learning Center |
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The Learning Center at PSH, located in Olmsted C-216. A peer physics tutor is available there. |
| Hyperphysics |
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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. |
| Math, Physics, and Engineering Applets |
***** |
Excellent applets for many physics courses. Some specific ones are also linked in the chapter-specific sections below. |
| A similar textbook |
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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. |
| Errata |
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Errata for the 11th edition of our textbook (1st printing). |
| Errata |
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Errata for the 11th edition of our textbook (2nd printing). |
| Self-Assessment Tests |
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from the Cutnell and Johnson text |
| Tippens Physics, 7th Edition |
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Includes online quizzes, interactive applets, etc. |
| Physics Evolution |
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An applet showing some of the historical evolution of physics, through key people and places. |
| The Scientific Revolution |
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Excerpts from Brooklyn College's course "The Shaping of the Modern World" |
| A View from the Back of the Envelope |
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Teaching tools using approximation |
| My Links page |
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Many links covering many general physics areas. |
| Chapter 14: Fluid Mechanics |
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Description |
| Physlets |
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Applet: a simplified view of atomic motion. Under "Version 3" click on "Molecular" then click on "Start" or "Mixture" |
| Using Pascal's Principle to break a bottle |
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Video and Discussion: "One particularly useless but nonetheless interesting application of Pascal's principle is the dropping of the bottom out of a glass bottle. If the bottle is filled to the top with water, then any pressure exerted on the water is transmitted undiminished to the bottom of the bottle, which has a larger area. The multiplied force can pop the bottom out of the bottle." |
| Archimedes' Principle
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Applet: View buoyant forces in liquids, similar to our first lab. |
| Buoyancy and Stability |
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Flashlet: Useful if you would like to apply the ideas of Archimedes' Principle, one step beyond what we cover in class. |
| Misinterpretations of Bernoulli's Law |
***** |
Course Content: A very good discussion of how Bernoulli's Law is often misinterpreted (including in our textbook). |
| Archimedes |
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A very interesting site by Chris Rorres, especially notable for his translating Archimedes' arguments to modern mathematical terms, and extending his work using new mathematical tools, in Completing Book II Of Archimedes's On Floating Bodies |
| Uses for glycerol (web page) |
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Course Content: Related to Lab 1: if you're curious about what glycerol is and what it's used for. "Glycerol: A Jack Of All Trades" |
| Uses for glycerol (.pdf) |
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Course Content: Related to Lab 1: if you're curious about what glycerol is and what it's used for. |
| Chapter 16: Sound and Hearing |
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Description |
| Thermoacoustic cooling |
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News Story: see also http://www.thermoacousticscorp.com/news/index.cfm/ID/14.htm. |
| Sound Wave Interference |
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Applet: Observe the interference patterns from two sound sources (adjusting speaker separation, frequency, phase, etc.). From http://www.falstad.com/. |
| Circular Membrane Oscillations |
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Applet: Various normal modes of a circular membrane. From http://www.falstad.com/. |
| Inner Ear Hair Cell Regeneration |
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Course Content: The results of modern studies showing that birds are capable of regenerating "hair cells." |
| Standing Waves (Sound) |
**** |
Applet: Standing waves in a tube: both ends open, one side open, both sides closed. View graphs of displacement vs. position, or pressure vs. position. |
| The Ruben Flame Tube |
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Demonstration: Instructions for how to build one version of a "flame tube," a very interesting demonstration item. |
| Waves and Sound Demonstrations |
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Demonstrations: .pdf instructions for how to make demonstrations of: "Standing waves in an elastic string," "the flame tube," "Kundt's tube," and "a storm in a bottle of water." |
| Superposition of two waves |
***** |
Applet: Displays two waves and their superposition. Not very flashy, but very clear, and easily adjusted. |
| Beats |
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Applet: view and listen to two interfering waves, each at around 440 Hz. |
| Doppler Effect |
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Applet: watch spreading waves, similar to a ripple tank, as a point moves at various speeds. |
| Doppler Effect |
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Applet: listen to the siren of an approaching and receding police car. |
