Physics

Open Courseware and Resources

- Physics: science of matter and its motion, as well as space and time, deals with concepts such as force, energy, mass, and charge (Wikipedia).

Physics - Resource Page

Prime Sites

  • Institute of Physics (UK) - learned society, professional body and publisher: Support & Grants, Employment Opportunities, Supporting Students, Societies, Encouraging Diversity, News, Schools & Colleges, Teaching Resources, Support for Non-Specialists, Advancing Physics, Teaching Advanced Physics, Events, Promoting Physics, Supporting Universities & Academics, Business & Innovation, Subject Groups, Careers & CPD, Local Branches, Engaging the Public, Science Policy, International, Awards

  • PhysLINK (US), Physics & Astronomy online Education & Reference - research & reference, meeting place for professionals, students & others: education (ask experts, history of physics & astronomy, essays, astronomy, grad advisor, software, reference for educators, new theories), reference, directories (university & college depts, institutes & national labs, prof & student societies, Journals, publishers. companies), community, fun, e-store

Other Sites

Electromagnetism

vector calculus, Maxwell's equations, energy & momentum, magnetic monopoles. linear media, plane waves scalar and vector potentials, radiation from generalised localised source, scattering, special relativity, charge-current density four-vector, fields from static source & moving charged particle, Lagrangian & Hamiltonian for charged particle, discussion of modern fields (standard model, duality, gravity, m-theory)

Vibrations and Waves

mechanical vibrations & waves, coupled oscillators, electro-magnetic radiation, musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes, big-bang cosmology
 

Quantum Mechanics

Mathematica exercises, examples, exams, handouts, lecture notes (introduction, concepts from classical mechanics, Schrödinger equation, bound states of square well, infinite well, scattering from potential steps & square barriers, etc., harmonic oscillator, formalism underlying QM, the measurement process, ladder operators, time dependent wave functions, 3D Schrödinger equation)

Acoustics and Vibration Animations

animations which visualize certain concepts concerning acoustics and vibration: Airborne Sound Waves and Sources, Vibration and Structural Waves, Other Wave Phenomena (not acoustics, but still waves)

Transverse Waves - particle displacement is perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation. The animation shows a one-dimensional transverse plane wave propagating from left to right. The particles do not move along with the wave; they simply oscillate up and down about their individual equilibrium positions as the wave passes by. Animation courtesy of Dr. Dan Russell, Kettering University.

A Course in Field Theory

Quantisation of fields Euler-Lagrange equations, Tree-level diagrams, Hamiltonian perturbation theory, Path integrals, Perturbative expansion, scattering matrix, Cross sections, Decay rates, Dirac equation, Plane wave solutions, Dirac Hamiltonian Path integrals for fermions, Feynman rules for vector fields, Quantum Electrodynamics, QED Non-Abelian gauge theories, Higgs mechanism, Gauge fixing and ghosts, Standard Mode, Loop corrections and renormalisation

Physics Help Tutorials

2D momentum, transformer, photonic devices, spectra, Newton's laws, waves, hydrogen, weight, refraction, cornering, standing waves, gravity, hydrogen, quantum theory, 2D standing waves, nucleus, electrostatics, radiation, mass & energy, magnetism, polarization, emissions, diffraction, blackbody radiation, quark, induction, photo-electric, AC generator, X-rays, decay, Lenz's law, Compton effect, relativity

Visual Quantum Mechanics

instructional materials on quantum physics, each set of teaching-learning materials integrates interactive visualizations with inexpensive materials and written documents in an activity-based environment: software, publications

Physics Tutorials

Remedial (Dimensional Analysis, Graphing Oscillating Fns, Trigonometry, Graphing Simple Fns, Log Paper, Logarithms, Algebra, Vectors, Unit Conversions, Significant digits), Tutorials (Torque and Rotational Motion, DC Circuits, Free-Body Diagrams, Exponential Growth & Decay, Simple Harmonic Motion), Biophysics Tutor

Introduction to Differential Geometry and General Relativity

distance, open sets, parametric surfaces & smooth functions, smooth manifolds & scalar fields, tangent vectors & space, contravariant & covariant vector fields, tensor fields, Riemannian manifolds, locally Minkowskian manifolds, covariant differentiation, geodesics & local inertial frames, Riemann curvature tensor, comoving frames & proper time, stress & stress-energy tensor, basic premises of general relativity, Einstein field equations, Schwarzschild metric & event horizons, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes

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