SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- Motion viewed 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 summary
- 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
- Lecture 2 Highlights
- Classic movie about the measurement of time dilation: "An Experiment With Mu Mesons"
- A good video about simultaneity
- A video about the Lorentz transformation
- Lecture 3 Highlights
- Lecture 4 Highlights
- Quasar PKS 2000-330 with redshift z = 3.78. The current record holder with z = 7.54
- Lecture 5 highlights
- Twin Paradox: The Case of the Identically Accelerated Twins
- Lecture 6 highlights
- Some Special Relativity questions from the Physics GRE subject test
- Compton scattering on wikipedia
- Compton's description of his inelastic x-ray scatering measurements
- Derivation of Compton's equation for inelastic light scattering
- Lecture 7 highlights
- Lecture 8 highlights
THERMODYNAMICS
- Lecture 9 highlights
- States of matter Phet demo
- The constant volume gas thermometer demonstration from UMD Physics Lec-Dem. Spreadsheet results
- Fluctuations and the thermodynamic limit
- Temperature sensor characteristics
- Prof. James Kelly Review of Thermodynamics
- Lecture 10 highlights
- Lecture 11 highlights
- SNOW DAY
- Review for Exam 1
- EXAM #1
- Exam 1 first 3 pages
- Exam 1 Results
- 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
- Lecture 14 highlights
- Lecture 15 highlights
- Where are they? Can alien life be definitively identified using the laws of thermodynamics?
- Lecture 16 highlights
- 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
- Lecture 17 highlights
MODERN PHYSICS
- Description of Thomson's e/m experiment for electrons
- Early e/m measurements
- Millikan oil drop experiment to determine the electric charge e
- 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
- Lecture 18 highlights
- The Photoelectric Effect Wiki article
- Heinrich Hertz and KIT, Germany
- Translation of Einstein's 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect
- The X-ray Tube
- X-ray Emission
- The Bragg diffraction condition
- X-ray Crystallography
- Lecture 19 highlights
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- Atomic Spectroscopy
- Lecture 20 highlights
- Davisson-Germer experiment on electron difraction
- Critique of the Bohr model
- Lecture 21 highlights
- Group velocity / Phase velocity Animation
- Two-slit interference
- An experimental test of Born's rule that QM should be linear in the wavefunction
- Prof. Jay Sau's slides on deBroglie waves and more slides on waves in general
- Lecture 22 highlights
- Infinite and finite square well potentials
- Graphical solution to the finite square well problem
- Prof. Jay Sau's slides on quantum mechanics
- Lecture 23 highlights
- Review for EXAM 2
- EXAM #2
- Exam 2 first three pages
- Exam 2 Results
- Transitions between energy states
- Lecture 25 highlights
- Solutions to the Schrodinger equation for the Harmonic Oscillator
- Schrodinger's trick for the harmonic oscillator
- Lecture 26 highlights
- Wave Packet demo in Mathematica
- Gaussian Wave Packet Evolution demo in Mathematica
- Uncertainty Principle slides
- Lecture 27 highlights
- Tunneling slides
- Tunnel Diodes
- Lecture 28 highlights