Teaching Resources for the Computer

The following are computer resources which I have developed for teaching various courses in physics. None of this material is protected by copyrights. There are no restrictions in the distribution and use of this material.

Mechanics

• Baseball: (2-dimensional projectile motion). Description | Flash | Scripted Flash | mp4 video
• Pendulum. Description | Flash | Scripted Flash | mp4 video

Waves

• Sinewave (traveling sine wave). Description | Flash | Scripted Flash | mp4 video
• Standing (standing wave). Description | Flash | Scripted Flash | mp4 video
• Beats. Description | Flash | Scripted Flash | mp4 video
• Doppler (Doppler effect). Description | Flash | Scripted Flash | mp4 video
• Bells (Demonstration of the Doppler effect). Description | wav
  Short version. wav
• Boomray (sonic boom using ray model). Description | Flash | Scripted Flash | mp4 video
• Boom (sonic boom using wave model). Description | Flash | Scripted Flash | mp4 video
• Addwave (produce musical tones). Description | Windows
• Violin (violin and trumpet harmonics). Description | Flash | mp4 video

Optics

• Refract (refraction of light). Description | Flash | Scripted Flash | mp4 video
• Thinfilm (Transmission and reflection of light by a thin film). Description | Flash
• EMwave (electromagnetic wave). Description | Flash | mp4 video
• Rayleigh (Rayleigh criterion for resolving images). Description | Flash| Scripted Flash | mp4 video
• Hubble (Resolving power of Hubble Space Telescope). Description | PowerPoint
  Ground-based telescope. jpg
  Hubble telescope. jpg
• Laser (comparison of He-Ne laser with city lights). Description | jpg | PowerPoint
• Redshift (red shift of distant galaxies). Description | jpg | PowerPoint
• Polarize (polarization of light). Description | Flash| Scripted Flash | mp4 video
• Disperse (dispersion of a light pulse in glass) Description | Dos

Thermodynamics

• Balls (monatomic gas and probability). Description
  4 balls in a box. Dos | OpenGL
  50 balls in a box. Dos | OpenGL | mp4 video
  Smiley face. Dos | OpenGL | YouTube video
  
• Adiabat (adiabatic processes on a gas). Description | Dos | OpenGL
  Adiabatic expansion. mp4 video
  Free expansion. mp4 video
  

Solid State Physics

• Crystal Structures
  Simple Cubic (sc) LiveGraphics3D
  Body-Centered Cubic (bcc) LiveGraphics3D
  Face-Centered Cubic (fcc) LiveGraphics3D
  Sodium Chloride (NaCl) LiveGraphics3D
  Cesium Chloride (CsCl) LiveGraphics3D
  Zincblende (ZnS) LiveGraphics3D
  Diamond (C) LiveGraphics3D
  
• Reflection from plane (Reflection of x rays from a plane of points). Description | Applet
• Reflection from lattice (Reflection of x rays from a plane of atoms). Description | Applet
• Reflection from unit cell (Reflection of x rays from a plane of atoms). Description | Applet
• Reflection from crystal (Reflection of x rays from a plane of atoms). Description | Applet
• Longwave (lattice waves in a one-dimensional monatomic crystal). Description | Flash
• Diatomic (lattice waves in a one-dimensional diatomic crystal). Description | Flash
• Equivwav (equivalent lattice waves). Description | Flash
• Cuwave (lattice waves in a three-dimensional copper crystal). Description | Flash
• Kbrwave (lattice waves in a three-dimensional KBr crystal). Description | Flash

Quantum Mechanics

• Packet (construction of a wave packet). Description | Flash
• Vgroup (group and phase velocity of a wave packet). Description | Flash
• Twoslit (particles passing through a double slit). Description | Flash
  Photons: Scripted Flash | mp4 video
  Electrons: Scripted Flash | mp4 video
• Neonlines (energy levels and visible spectrum of neon). Description | jpg | PowerPoint
• Barrier (wave packet tunneling through a barrier). Description | Mpg video