Physics 195: Other Resources

This is a place to collect links to various interesting places on the web or to tools for the class.

I start with 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)

Tips for Studying Physics (1997)

The next item is a study done with Maple of the anharmonic oscillator that we studied in class on Friday of week 3. I have done a numeric solution of the motion in the potential that we built to model a molecular potential to demonstrate the nearly harmonic motion for small amplitude oscillations and the deviations at larger amplitude.

Numerical Solution of Molecular vibrations.

Then we have a set of Maple demonstrations of waves, particularly of Fourier methods for handling waves. The first two show the decomposition and re-assembly of a Fourier solution for the string plucked at the center.

Finding the Fourier Coefficients.

Rebuilding the wave.

Then we have one that explores a travelling wave.

Travelling Gaussian by Fourier.

And lastly one that explores energy and momentum in travelling Gaussians.

Energy and Momentum in Waves.