General Physics online sources

[Martin]

this thread is for links to online physics resources

especially online physics textbooks and lecture notes

but also links to handbook-type data, images, webography.

 

there are a lot of online physics textbooks out there and course materials

of all sorts including animations. Maybe we can pool what we've each found.

 

categories overlap---one text might cover some classical mechanics, some relativity, some quantum mechanics---so probably the best thing is everybody who wants can throw their favorite physics links into one pile and some of us sort it out later if necessary.

 

in case it needs to be emphasized, all this stuff is free

for individual download and for your own learning use (but contains some

copyright drafts of books these people are working on and will publish)

[Martin]

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/index.htm

 

this has PDF notes and slides for a couple of dozen MIT undergrad and grad courses

 

Undergraduate Courses

8.01 Physics I, Fall 2003

 

8.01 Physics I, Fall 1999

 

8.012 Physics I, Fall 2002

 

8.02 Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2002

 

8.02

Electricity and Magnetism: TEAL:Studio Physics Project, Fall 2002 NEW

 

8.022 Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism, Fall 2002

 

8.03 Physics III, Spring 2003

 

8.033 Relativity, Fall 2003

 

8.04 Quantum Physics I, Spring 2003

 

8.044

Statistical Physics I, Spring 2003

 

8.05 Quantum Physics II, Fall 2002

 

8.06 Quantum Physics III, Spring 2003

 

8.07 Electromagnetism II, Fall 2002

 

8.08 Statistical Physics II, Spring 2003

 

8.13 Experimental Physics I & II "Junior Lab", Fall 2002

 

8.14 Experimental Physics I & II "Junior Lab", Fall 2002

 

8.20 Introduction to Special Relativity, January (IAP) 2003

 

8.224 Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity & Astrophysics, Spring 2003

 

8.225J Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century, Fall 2002

 

8.231Physics of Solids I, Fall 2002

 

8.251 String Theory for Undergraduates, Spring 2003

 

8.282J Introduction to Astronomy, Spring 2003

 

8.321 Quantum Theory I, Fall 2002 NEW

 

8.811 Particle Physics II, Fall 2002

 

 

===========================

Graduate Courses

 

8.311 Electromagnetic Theory, Spring 2004

 

8.322 Quantum Theory II, Spring 2003 NEW

 

8.323 Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I, Spring 2003

 

8.324 Quantum Field Theory II, Fall 2002

 

8.325 Relativistic Quantum Field Theory III, Spring 2003 NEW

 

8.333 Statistical Mechanics, Fall 2002

 

8.334 Statistical Mechanics II, Spring 2003

 

8.512 Theory of Solids II, Spring 2004 NEW

 

8.514 Strongly Correlated Systems in Condensed Matter Physics, Fall 2003

 

8.575J Statistical Thermodynamics of Complex Liquids, Spring 2004 NEW

 

8.592 Statistical Physics in Biology, Spring 2003

 

8.594J Introduction to Neural Networks, Fall 2002

 

8.613J Introduction To Plasma Physics I, Fall 2002

 

8.613J Introduction to Plasma Physics I, Fall 2003

 

8.701 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Spring 2004 NEW

 

8.851 Strong Interactions, Spring 2003

 

8.942 Cosmology, Fall 2001

 

8.962 General Relativity, Spring 2002

[Martin]

this is essentially a free uptodate undergraduate physics textbook

they are writing it and every year it gets better this is the version

for the academic year 2004-2005

 

http://www.pma.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2004/

 

my impression is this book is really high quality, Kip Thorne has a lot of talent,

[Martin]

http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~phys1/java/phys1/MovingCharge/MovingCharge.html

 

this is the animation of the electric fieldlines of a moving charge

 

and you have a menu of how the charge is to move----it can be user-controlled in which case you put the mouse on a little steering wheel and

guide the direction

 

there is also "schizo" which is crazy random motion, and there is

"elipse" which is beautiful and sinewave and spiral motion etc.

 

try varying the speed as well.

 

it shows how electromagnetic waves are transmitted by acceleration of the charge back and forth in the antenna----and it shows that information of changes in the motion of the charge can only propagate outwards at the speed of light, so the "news" of the motion is always spreading outwards like the ripples on a pond surface

[Martin]

I accidentally came across a page with many Applets

many links to animation and graphdrawing stuff

there is a movie about a magnetically levitating frog

apparently but I only saw a still from it

have to go. it may have good stuff, dont know

http://faculty.washington.edu/cobden/321/resources.htm

[swansont]

Hyperphysics Concepts is quite useful, as is Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

[Alexa]

All right, Martin. I'll check from time to time to see how the threads evolve and if I can you anything to help you, this will be my pleasure !

 

See you soon,

 

Alexa