SELECTED APPLETS - HONR228K, Fall 2008
Last update: Nov. 26, 2008
Wikipedia articles are usually helpful, succinct, and at an understandable level.
Chap. 1:
Powers of 10, 9min YouTube video
Chap. 2:
Ptolemy's epicycles: impressive applet illustration
Celestial sphere applet fancier
Ptolemaic, Copernican, etc., models
Chap. 3:
Aristotle and beyond, nice summary
Motion with Constant Acceleration
Catch Up (Constant Velocity and Constant Acceleration)
Resultant of forces, vector addition
Projectile motion (Fowler)
Projectile Simulation/Experiment
Fendt's Projectile Motion Simulator
Simulation of Monkey and Hunter Demonstration (Excellent! Display the acceleration and the velocity vectors.)
Newton's Second Law Experiment
Ocean tides rotating system forces water surface (there are lots of other sections) [Remember that this effect is due primarily to the rotation of the earth, not the orbiting of the moon!]
Snell's Law illustration
Snell's Law via fastest path ...alternative
Newton's particle theory of light (from UVa; Hook should be Hooke)
Refraction (moving wavefronts)
Light applets, getting Snell's law from wave viewpoint
Chap. 4:
States of matter and oversimplified atomistic-scale illustrations
Energies involved in p hase changes of water, nice summary
Chap. 5:
Applet showing physical basis of ideal gas law (very enlightening)
Applet: Ideal Gas (note n [moles] x R = N [particles] x k)
Kinetic theory and pressure, a bit mathy
Kinetic theory in Wikipedia, nice background, more physics than you'll likely want
Kinetic theory and speed distribution
Gas molecules simulation with controllable gravity
Kinetic theory, somewhat mathy
Entropy in Wikipedia again more details than appropriate for HONR228K
Bouncing ball, internal vs "external" [kinetic + potential] energy
Entropy applet--energy distribution
Brownian motion: Fowler at UVa , McIntyre , with trail option (alternative site)
Description of Brownian motion (Fowler at UVa, nice introduction, then becomes more technical than HONR28K)
Self-similarity of Brownian motion
Illustrative discussion of self-similarity
Nice summary of fractal dimension
1D Ising applet (stp, Clarkson) (main stp simulation site)
Spin simulation (nice but somewhat problematic)
Kant's categorical imperative (application of mean field theory in philosophy)
Simulation illustrating the 2nd law of thermodynamics, with lots of accompanying discussion; also shows energy conversion to thermal energy for a bouncing ball
Extensive but non-technical discussion of entropy, also heat engines
Extensive discussion of entropy clarifying misconceptions
"All about entropy" with lots of links, likely more than you want to know!
Chap. 6:
Frames of Reference (classic Hume and Ivey movie, 26 min.)
Chicago: "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" on YouTube Original 1982
Sound from a vibrating string, showing pressure/displacement wave
Constructive and destructive interference (static)
Young's 2-slit interference experiment Fendt's more sophisticated version
Speed of light, elementary approach
Quick history of efforts to measure speed of light
Doppler shift and why it leads to a change in pitch ; application to astronomy ; from NASA site
http://www.mathpages.com/rr/s2-04/2-04.htm
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/reldop2.html mathy
http://www.saburchill.com/physics/chapters/0091.html IB physics, a bit stilted
http://maths.dur.ac.uk/~dma0cvj/mathphys/supplements/supplement5/supplement5.html mathy but clear
Wikipedia articles: speed of light, Cerenkov radiation, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic spectrum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity and relativistic Doppler effect
http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/sr/postulate.html#postulates
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/relativity.html
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/spec_rel.html
Example of time dilation (Fendt)
Length contraction simple and subtle
Relativity and GPS Navigation Systems
Evidence for quark theory and slides
Chap. 7:
Blackbody spectrum, with temperature control
Lecture notes on ultraviolet catastrophe (more sophisticated than class discussion, nice figures)
Photoelectric effect and alternative applet
Bohr planetary model of atoms and applet showing transitions between orbitals
Bohr model applet, with both particle and wave models (Fendt)
Understanding the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Heisenberg uncertainty principle applet
Field Ion and Field Emission Micrographs
Principle of Field Emission Microscopy (but alas no schematic)
Principle of Field Ion Microscope (FIM)
Wikipedia: Metaphysics, Empiricism, Epicureanism, Determinism, Libertarianism
...Uncertainty Principle , EPR (Einstein Podolsky Rosen) Paradox, Philsophy of Science,
.. Constructive realism, Entity realism, Logical positivism
STM tutorial (by T-W Hui, U. of Guelph)
Beautiful STM images courtesy of IBM
"Chaos Theory: A Brief Introduction"
Excellent applet on decay and half-life
Another nice simulation of half-life and decay
Nice applet on nuclear chain reaction
JavaBalls simulation of collisions
Applet on Nuclear Isotope Half-lifes
Nuclear physics, excellent extensive site with lots of accessible information
A Study of the Atomic Bomb and World War II
Military Technology, Danish site, excellent account of ideas
Atomic Museum tour of the Manhattan project
Radiation and Life -outstanding, clear, concise
Radiation: several nice short summaries