SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- Motion viewed in a non-inertial reference frame
- A rotating Merry-Go-Round as an example of a non-inertial reference frame
- Demo showing motion in a non-inertial reference frame
- Review of Cartesian, Cylindrical and Spherical coordinate systems by Dan Fleisch. A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations
- Lecture 1 hand-written notes
- Lecture 1 recording (Lecture starts just past 15:00)
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- Michelson-Morley experiment wiki article
- Michelson-Morley interferometer applet
- Michelson interferometer phase shift upon changing the length of one arm (look at 0:40 in the video)
- The LIGO interferometer
- On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, by Albert Einstein
- Classic movie about the measurement of time dilation: "An Experiment With Mu Mesons"
- Light clock / time dilation animation
- Spacetime surprise in Forbes magazine
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- A good video about simultaneity
- Visualizing an Inertial Reference Frame as a lattice of meter sticks and clocks
- A video about the Lorentz transformation
- What you SEE when you look at a relativistic object
- A paper calculating what a relativistic bicycle looks like to a person with binocular vision
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- Matrices in computer graphics
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- Twin Paradox: The Case of the Identically Accelerated Twins
- Quasar PKS 2000-330 with redshift z = 3.78. The current record holder with z = 7.54
- Redshift z calculation
- NASA's guide to near-light speed travel
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- Slides used in a similar Lecture
- Compton scattering on wikipedia
- Compton's description of his inelastic x-ray scatering measurements
- Derivation of Compton's equation for inelastic light scattering
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- Some Special Relativity questions from the Physics GRE subject test
- General Relativity slides
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QUANTUM MECHANICS
- Early e/m measurements
- Millikan oil drop experiment to determine the electric charge e
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- Slides on blackbody radiation spectrum
- Classical review: Modes of Oscillation
- Blackbody radiation spectrum
- Planck distribution function
- Commercial blackbody radiation source1, source2, source3, source4
- History of the Planck distribution function
- Why did Planck take E = h nu and not some other dependence?
- Blackbody radiation spectrum applet
- Wikipedia article on the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation spectrum
- How infrared thermometers work, more or less
- The Photoelectric Effect Wiki article
- Heinrich Hertz and KIT, Germany
- Translation of Einstein's 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect
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- The X-ray Tube
- X-ray Emission
- The Bragg diffraction condition
- X-ray Crystallography
- Atomic Spectroscopy
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- Critique of the Bohr model
- Davisson-Germer experiment on electron difraction
- deBroglie's matter wave slides and in pdf format
- Hydrogen atom energy levels visualized in terms of deBroglie matter waves
- Cool simulation of a Hydrogen atom being bombarded by photons
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- Review of complex numbers and functions
- Prof. Jay Sau's slides on quantum mechanics
- Two-slit interference
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- An experimental test of Born's rule that QM should be linear in the wavefunction
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- Infinite and finite square well potentials
- Semiconductor Nanowires hosting Majorana Fermions
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- Graphical solution to the finite square well problem
- Finite Square Well Graphical Solution
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- Animations of classical simple harmonic oscillation
- Solutions to the Schrodinger equation for the Harmonic Oscillator
- Schrodinger's trick for the harmonic oscillator
- Harmonic oscillator lecture slides
- Harmonic oscillator wavefunction curvature slide
- Harmonic oscillator probability distribution slides
- Definition of concavity
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- Step Potential Scattering
- More details on scattering from a potential step, and tunneling
- Tunneling slides
- Tunnel Diodes
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- Fourier transform of a Gaussian
- Uncertainty Principle slides
- Wave Packet demo in Mathematica
- Gaussian Wave Packet Evolution demo in Mathematica
- The Stern-Gerlach experiment
- Two beams coming out of the Stern-Gerlach device
- Spin properties of elementary particles
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- Dynamic Periodic Table (Very useful!)
- Term notation in atomic structure
- Lecture 21 slides, and the annotated version
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- Nuclear Physics slides
- Lecture 22 hand-written notes
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THERMODYNAMICS
- States of matter Phet demo
- Prof. James Kelly Review of Thermodynamics
- The constant volume gas thermometer demonstration from UMD Physics Lec-Dem. (PDF version) Spreadsheet results (PDF version)
- Fluctuations and the thermodynamic limit
- Quantum Mechanics Review
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- EXAM 2 on Quantum Mechanics
- Exam 2 Results
- Temperature sensor characteristics
- Ruthenium Oxide thermometer characteristics
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- The ideal Carnot cycle
- The ideal Otto cycle model of an internal combustion engine
- Quantum heat engines also have an efficiency limited by the Carnot efficiency
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- Where are they? Can alien life be definitively identified using the laws of thermodynamics?
- Heat capacity jump at the superconductor to normal second order phase transition (see slides 13-15)
- Phase Diagrams
- Lennard-Jones Interatomic Potential
- van der Waals isotherms
- The van der Waals equation of state
- YouTube video on supercritical fluids
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- Summary of Modern Physics topics on the Physics GRE Exam
- Review of Thermodynamics
- Review of Phys 371: See Relativity Review (EXAM 1, above) + Quantum Mechanics Review (Lecture 23, above) + Review of Thermodynamics (previous line!)
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- FINAL EXAM