More Stuff!
This is a grab bag of lectures, etc., that I've given at various times in the past that do not fit in well with Physics 109N or Physics 252 as I'm teaching them now. Much of this material was originally presented in summer courses for high school physics teachers.
Physics Using Excel
If you're not used to Excel, I've put together extremely detailed instructions for using it (Excel97) to interpret a simple experiment:
How to use Excel to find g from the video of the falling ball
I've also written notes on how to use it to solve a differential equation, Schrödinger's equation, in two of my Physics 252 homework assignments, here and here.
Electricity and Magnetism
This first lecture covers E&M from the earliest times up to Michael Faraday.
Summer 1995 Lectures on History of Theories of Electricity and Magnetism
This second lecture doesn't really follow from the first, it's an attempt to show -- in as elementary a fashion as possible -- how Maxwell found the speed of light from electrostatics and forces between current-carrying wires.
Summer 1995 Lecture on Maxwell's Equations
Some Math
Proof of Heron's Formula for the area of a triangle.
Applets!
(These applets are from 109 and 252)
Rutherford Scattering: from a Thomson Atom and from a Nuclear Atom
Group Velocity and Phase Velocity
Physics 621
: Curriculum Enhancement for Physics Teachers, 1997