Physics 100: Other Resources

Looking for extra help with your homework? Check out the QLit center. This semester (Fall 2008), there will be physics tutors at C. A. Johnson 224 at the following times:

Physics: Sunday, Tuesday, Thurs., 2-4; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, 7-9

Below some articles on how to study physics. Some of them were written quite a long time ago but they still contain some very good advice.

How to Study Physics (1955)

How to Study Physics (1977)

Tips for Studying Physics (1997)

Then some readings about Galileo.

A mathematical biography

The Galileo Project (a whole web site full of interesting stuff)

Galileo's entry in the Catholic Encyclopaedia.

Here is the site for the simulations I will use sometimes in class.

PhET Simulations

 

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