PHYS P114: Physics for Poets Graphics used in Lectures
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		Lectures Other Links Lectures General Information   •  Units, Constants, and Greek Symbols •  Understanding (and describing) Experiments Electricity & Magnetism   •  Early Studies of Electricity •  The Dry-Cell Battery •  Diagram of a Cathode Ray Tube •  Ocean Current Field •  Rules & Tips for Drawing Field Lines •  Early Studies of Magnetism •  Tracks curving in a magnetic field (the ATLAS detector) •  The Hall Effect (sign of charge carriers) •  Thomson's discovery of the electron •  Millikan's experiment •  Faraday Coils •  Electric Generator Unification & Light   •  Waves •  Spherical and Plane Waves •  One Slit Exp: Particles vs Waves •  Two Slit Exp: Particles vs Waves •  Ways to get interference •  Young's Experiment •  Diffraction pg.1 | pg.2 | pg.3 •  E-Field of an accelerating charge •  The EM wave •  The EM spectrum •  Hertz' Experiment Prelude to QM   •  The Blackbody Spectrum (from PhET ) •  The ultra-violet catastrophe •  The Photoelectric Effect (from PhET ) •  Emission spectra of gases •  Energy Levels of Hydrogen •  Summary of above 3 Phenomena Development of QM   •  Standing vs Traveling Waves •  Visualizing the de Broglie Wavelength •  Electron Scattering Experiments •  Matrix vs Wave Mechanics •  Adding Waves (from PhET ) •  Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle •  Two-slit: particles vs waves vs electrons •  Hydrogen atom wavefunctions •  Stern-Gerlach Experiment •  Causality •  EPR Paradox & Bell's Inequality •  Cloud Chamber Tracks •  Positron Discovery Getting to the Nucleus   •  Mysterious Rays c. 1900 •  Radioactive Decay: lifetime •  Scattering •  Discovery of the Nucleus •  Understanding the Nucleus •  Feynman Diagram: e- e- Scattering animation •  Pion Discovery •  Neutral Kaon Discovery Forces weak & strong   •  Beta Decay Spectrum •  Parity •  Mesons & Baryons •  Confinement & Hadronization •  Gluon Discovery The Standard Model   •  Fundamental Particles (Fermilab Media) •  Accelerators •  Detectors •  Fine Structure in Hydrogen •  Corrections to QED •  Charge Measurement vs Probe Energy •  Weak Boson Discovery •  Particles and Masses Where Now?   •  Some Neutrino Experiments •  Composition of the Universe •  Dark Matter •  Dark Energy •  Supersymmetry •  Extra Dimensions •  String Theory back to top Other Links Physics Education Technology Lots of very nice interactive physics simulations on many of the topics we cover. Started by Nobel laureate Carl Wieman Physics Museum of the University of Coimbra, Portugal Pictures of old experimental apparatus (a Coulomb torsion balance, for example). Science and Society Picture Library Lots of pictures of old experimental apparatus back to top
		Last updated: 27-Oct-09