Additional Reading and Applets for Lecture Topics

General Physics 2                                   Updated 09/04/2008

 

Waves

• Acoustics and Vibration Animations - Dan Russell, Kettering University     most recommended

• Description of Periodic Motion

• Simple Harmonic Motion,  Simple Harmonic Motion (applet)

• Oscillation and Wave

• Longitudinal and Transverse Wave Motion 

• Interference of water waves 1

• Mechanical Waves

                                                                                  The Physics of Tsunamis

Sound

• Sound and Hearing
• Sound Fields Radiated by Simple Sources
• Sensitivity of Human Ear
• What is a Logarithm?

Electric Forces and Fields

• Electric Field

Electric Potential

Electric Current and Circuits

Magnetic Forces and Fields

• Oersted and Ampére link Electricity and Magnetism

Electromagnetic Induction

Alternating Current

Electromagnetic Waves

Reflection and Refraction of Light

• Tutorial which explains the reflection and the refraction of waves by the principle of Huygens

• An interactive Java tutorial designed to demonstrate how a single wavelength of light is refracted by various media

Mirrors and Lenses

• Choose Optics and after: Thin Lens (converging/diverging lens/mirrors)

• From Easy Java Simulations choose Optics

Wave Optics

• Interference of two Circular or Spherical Waves

• Interference of Light at a Double Slit

• Soap bubble interference

• Thomas Young's Double Slit Experiment

Optical Instruments

• Some examples

Interference and Diffraction

• Diffraction of Light

Relativity

Early Quantum Physics and Photon

Quantum Physics

• Helium-Neon Laser

Nuclear Physics

Particle Physics