Supplementary Materials for Phys 410

Lecture 1
- Videos of particle motion from the perspective of inertial and rotating frames of reference
- Motion viewed in a non-inertial reference frame
- Life 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
Lecture 2
- Millikan oil drop experiment video
- Felix Baumgartner free-fall video from 39 km. Note that he tumbled initially until the air density increased to the point that aerodynamic lift allowed him to stabilize his body.
- Data about the Baumgartner free-fall
- Physics Today Quick Study on free-fall
- Lecture 2 summary
Lecture 3
- The Cyclotron and the Calutron
- A nice animation of the Cyclotron
- Illustration of a "whistler" orbit of a charged particle in the earth's magnetic field
- Recording of whistlers in the kHz range
- Lecture 3 summary
Lecture 4
- Rocket propulsion
- Photos of John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin (both at SASM), Vostock rocket in Moscow, Russia; Saturn-V first stage engines and Space Shuttle Atlantis July 1, 2011 at KSC.
- The Mars Curiosity probe ejects W plates to shift its Center of Mass (twice) upon entry into the Martian atmosphere. Six 25-kg weights were ejected and landed on Mars.
- Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
- Prof. Anlage caught this foul ball last summer at Camden Yards
- Lecture 4 summary
Lecture 5
- Feynman lecture on Conservation of Energy
- Some conservative force excercises
- Lecture 5 summary
Lecture 6
- Some fun 1D constrained motion: Daemonen (watch the movie!) at Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen
- Even better 1D constrained motion: Vertigo at Tivoli, with a twist!
- Lecture 6 summary
Lecture 7
- Lecture 7 in-class excercises
- Lecture 7 summary
Lecture 8
- Animation of the 2D harmonic oscillator
- Constellation diagram for I/Q communication schemes (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation)
- Damped Harmonic Oscillator summary
- Introduction to Harmonic Motion: Intuition behind the motion of a mass on a spring (some calculus near the end).
- Lecture 8 summary
Lecture 9
- Using a resonance to image microwave currents and the discovery that followed from these measurements
- Damped driven oscilaltions of the quartz tuning fork are used for Atomic Force Microscopy
- Build your own Scanning Tunneling Microscope
- Vibration control through active feedback
- Echoes in Complex Systems workshop at the MPIPKS in Dresden, Germany (ECS14)
- Crowd synchrony on the Millennium bridge in London, UK. Video of the bridge oscillations.
- Fitting resonance curves - paper by former undergrad researcher Paul Petersan
- High-Q superconducting resonators
- Lecture 9 summary
Lecture 10
- Video of Helium balloon in an accelerated air-filled box
- The co-rotating frame in NMR (see the animation at the bottom of the page)
- Mission: Space at EPCOT is a nice non-inertial reference frame experience!
- The Coriolis force
- Lecture 10 summary
Lecture 11
- Foucault pendulum
- Foucault pendulum animation
- Time-lapse movie of a Foucault pendulum
- Rotating liquid mirror demonstration (similar to problem 9.14)
- Lecture 11 summary
Lecture 12
- The cycloid
- The cycloid compared to a semi-circle
- Cloaking an object by taking advantage of Fermat's Principle and materials with n < 1
- Lecture 12 summary
Lecture 13
- Double pendulum motion
- Lecture 13 summary
Lecture 14
- EXAM 1
Lecture 15
- Lecture 15 summary
Lecture 16
- Bead on a wire simulation
- Solving the two-body central-force relative coordinate differential equation
- Lecture 16 summary
Lecture 17
- Solar Probe Plus mission to the sun. It will be the fastest man-made object ever. Orbit analysis.
- Gravity assist or gravitational slingshot
- The three-body gravitational problem
- Exam 1 Results
- Lecture 17 summary
Lecture 18
- Rutherford Scattering
- Neutron moderators for sustaining a chain reaction
- Scattering from a circular target
- High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy is a type of scattering experiment
- The Mars Climate Orbiter was lost due to confusion about the units of impulse!
- Lecture 18 summary
Lecture 19
- Electro-Mechanical analogs (modern) and (ancient)
- There are 4 ways to draw the analogy between electrical and mechanical systems
- Lecture 19 summary
Lecture 20
- Lecture 20 summary
Lecture 21
- Precession of a spinning top
- Gyroscope with precession and nutation
- The Tippe Top
- Stable and unstable rotational motion of a rigid body
- Euler Angles
- Lecture 21 summary
Lecture 22
- Coupled oscillator applet
- Double pendulum applet
- Lecture 22 summary
Lecture 23
- Kuramoto model for coupled oscillators
- The Kuramoto model
- Synchronized oscillations of fireflies
- Prof. Steve Strogatz talks about synchronization
- Lecture 23 summary
Lecture 24
- The Michelson-Morley experiment
- The classic movie: Time Dilation: An Experiment With Mu Mesons
- Simultaneity video
- Lecture 24 summary
Lecture 25
- Lecture 25 summary
Lecture 26
- Double pendulum animation
- Wolfram Double Pendulum demo (right-click and 'save link as...')
- Driven damped pendulum animation
- Nonlinear Mechanics
- Lecture 26 summary
Lecture 27
- Exam #2 Chapters 6-11, 13-14
Lecture 28
- State space plot of a damped harmonic oscillator
- State space plot of a simple pendulum
- Nonlinear mechanics Mathematica notebook (right-click and 'save link as...')
- Bunimovich billiard sensitivity to initial conditions
- Driven damped pendulum bifurcation diagram
- The logistic map
- Prof. Anlage talk on nonlinear SQUIDs, given last Fall
- Lecture 28 summary
Lecture 29
- Phys 410 Concluding Remarks
- Lecture 29 summary
Lecture 30
- FINAL EXAM