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Suggested Online Physics Resources
There are many resources you can turn to
to help you learn in in Physics 25100. these
include traditional resources such as the
textbook, instructor's office hours, and
lectures. There is also this web site, the
chat and forumns in Oncourse, and the Quest
site. In addition to all of this, we have
identified a number of online resources that
can help you learn. We may point you to these
specifically at times, but you are always
free to explore these resources on your own.
Depending on your learning style, you may
find some of these more to your liking than
others. Please explore, and please try these
out at different times in the semester.
- The hyperphysics site,
written by C. Rod Nave, provides concept
maps of this semester's subjects (plus more
physics). The concept maps are linked to
brief summaries of the topics covered, all
hyperlinked to one another.
- The Physlets site at
Davidson College provides a large number of
Java applets that simulate various aspects
of physics. They allow you to "play" with
physical systems to get a better feel for
how they work, and how they relate to the
mathematical models we use. There is much
more here than we will use in our course,
and there are some cubjects that are not
covered. I strongly suggest that you work
with the following, though:
Electric fields and
potentials
Magnetic fields
Optics
AC Circuits
Faraday's Law
- MIT open courseware has
many features. The spring of 2002 semester
lectures were given by Walter Lewin, an
extraordinary lecuturer. All of these
lectures are available on video. There are sample
tests, homework with solutions, and other
useful information as well.
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The PhET site also has
many simulations of physics. This site,
hosted by the University of Colorado,
uses different technology than the
Physlets site, but the results are
similar. My favorites for 251 are
- Charges and fields
- Battery-resistor circuit
- Resistance in a wire
- Circuit construction kit (DC
only)
- Magnets and electromagnets
- Circuit construction (AC and
DC)
- Faraday's electromagnet lab
- Gas Properties
- Michigan State has a library of physics applets as well.
Most are not too complicated, but they
illustrate one or two concepts well.
- Another E field Applet
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