Teaching Resources for the Computer

The following are computer resources which I have developed for teaching various courses in physics. None of this material is protected by copyrights. There are no restrictions in the distribution and use of this material.

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Mechanics

• Baseball: (2-dimensional projectile motion). Description | Flash | Dos
• Pendulum. Description | Flash | Dos

Waves

• Sinewave (traveling sine wave). Description | Dos | OpenGL
• Standing (standing wave). Description | Dos | OpenGL | Script | Movie
• Beats. Description | Dos | OpenGL
• Doppler (Doppler effect). Description | Dos | OpenGL
• Bells (Demonstration of the Doppler effect). Description | wav
  Short version. wav
• Boom (sonic boom). Description | Dos | OpenGL
• Tone (produce tone at specified frequency). Description | Dos | Javascript
• Violin (violin harmonics). Description
  Sound: violin note. wav
  Graph of wave form. jpg
  Graph of spectrum. jpg
  Animation: harmonics of wave form. Dos | OpenGL
  Sound: harmonics of violin. wav
  Animation: harmonics of violin string. Dos | OpenGL
  Sound: trumpet note. wav
  Sound: first harmonic of trumpet note. wav
  Sound: first harmonic of violin note. wav
  

Optics

• Refract (refraction of light). Description | Dos | OpenGL
• EMwave (electromagnetic wave). Description | Dos
• Rayleigh (Rayleigh criterion for resolving images). Description | Dos
• Hubble (Resolving power of Hubble Space Telescope). Description | PowerPoint
  Ground-based telescope. jpg
  Hubble telescope. jpg
• Laser (comparison of He-Ne laser with city lights). Description | jpg | PowerPoint
• Redshift (red shift of distant galaxies). Description | jpg | PowerPoint
• Polarize (polarization of light). Description | Dos
• Disperse (dispersion of a light pulse in glass) Description | Dos

Thermodynamics

• Balls (monatomic gas and probability). Description
  4 balls in a box. Dos | OpenGL
  50 balls in a box. Dos | OpenGL
  Smiley face. Dos | OpenGL
• Adiabat (adiabatic processes on a gas). Description | Dos | OpenGL

Solid State Physics

• Longwave (lattice waves in a one-dimensional monatomic crystal). Description | Dos
• Diatomic (lattice waves in a one-dimensional diatomic crystal). Description | Dos
• Equivwav (equivalent lattice waves). Description | Dos
• Cuwave (lattice waves in a three-dimensional copper crystal). Description | Dos
• Kbrwave (lattice waves in a three-dimensional KBr crystal). Description | Dos

Quantum Mechanics

• Packet (construction of a wave packet). Description | Dos
• Vgroup (group and phase velocity of a wave packet). Description | Flash | Dos
• Twoslit (particles passing through a double slit). Description | Flash | Dos
• Neonlines (energy levels and visible spectrum of neon). Description | jpg | PowerPoint