ÿþ<html> <head> <title>Expanded version of How to become a theoretical physicist</title> </head> <body> Keep logs of all reading material with hyperlinks, references, timestamps, etc.<br /> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220358">An expansion of Gerard 't Hooft's "How to become a theoretical physicist" outline</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/theorist.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183220839">Gerard  t Hooft, Theoretical Physics as a Challenge</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/reviews/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183338000">Review Literature in HEP</A> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220405">01. Languages</H3> <DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220808">English</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.word2word.com/course.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Free English courses and resources.</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220819">German</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220827">Japanese</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220432">03. Classical mechanics</H3> <DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221507">Static mechanics</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.efunda.com/formulae/fluids/fluid_statics.cfm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Static Equations in Fluid Mechanics</A> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183232756">Forces</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.batesville.k12.in.us/physics/PhyNet/Mechanics/Newton1/WhatsAForce.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Dynamics - What's a Force?</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy99/phy99x79.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Forces</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183232768">Tensions</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.sparknotes.com/physics/dynamics/newtonapplications/section3.rhtml" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">SparkNotes: Applying Newton's Three Laws: Tension Force</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183232774">Hydrostats</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183232779">Newton's laws</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/limn2.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Limitations on Newton's Laws</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.mcasco.com/p1nlm.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Newton's Laws of Motion</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/gw55/newtonwebquest.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Three Laws of Motion</A> </DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221530">Elliptical orbits of planets</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Orbits.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Orbits and gravitation</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.frostydrew.org/observatory/courses/orbits/booklet.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Orbits for Amateurs</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.astro-tom.com/technical_data/elliptical_orbits.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Elliptical Orbits</A> <DT><A HREF="http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=467" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Curious About Astronomy: Why do planets have elliptical orbits?</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.polaris.iastate.edu/EveningStar/Unit6/unit6_sub1.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Elliptical Orbits Revisited</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.astronomynotes.com/history/s7.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">History and Philosophy of Western Astronomy</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/conghand/traject.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">TRAJECTORIES AND ORBITS</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?topic=9" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Kepler Motion</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221545">Many-body systems</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~coleman/mbody.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Many Body Physics 620</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/people/powell/QMBTrg.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Quantum Many-Body Theory Reading</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.physics.wustl.edu/Research/ResearchInfoDocs/ManyBody.php" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Quantum-Mechanical Many-Body Theory</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~aulbur/computing/computing.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Computational Many-Body Theory</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.sst.nrel.gov/media_cov/freshphys.html" ADD_DATE="1183232109" LAST_VISITED="0">Freshman physics in Many-Body Theory (John P. Perdew)</A> </DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://rt210.sl.psu.edu/phys_anim/mech/indexer_mech.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Physics Animations</A> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221552">Action principle</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.eftaylor.com/leastaction.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Principle of Least Action (Edwin F. Taylor)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~gleeson/httb/chapter1_3_6.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Principle of Least Action - intro, minimization law, set of all paths, slope, </A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.principlesofnature.net/principle_of_least_action.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Principles of Nature: the principle of least action</A> <DT><A HREF="http://homeoint.org/cazalet/fincke/leastaction.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Principle of the least action, the universal law of motion and posology. By Bernhardt FINCKE</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.lns.cornell.edu/spr/2004-06/msg0061661.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Re: principle of least action</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221559">Hamilton's equations and the Lagrangean</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.cis.udel.edu/~breech/physics/physics-notes/node20.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Hamilton's Equations of Motion</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath523/kmath523.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://electron6.phys.utk.edu/phys594/Tools/mechanics/summary/canonical/canonical.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Hamilton s equations</A> <DT><A HREF="http://homepages.nyu.edu/~mt33/jpc_feat/node3.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The basic approach: Hamiltonian mechanics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://electron6.phys.utk.edu/phys594/Tools/mechanics/summary/lagrangian/lagrangian.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Lagrangian Mechanics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.nyu.edu/classes/tuckerman/stat.mech/lectures/lecture_1/node3.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.slimy.com/~steuard/teaching/tutorials/Lagrange.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">An Introduction to Lagrange Multipliers</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~marsden/bib_src/ms/Book/" ADD_DATE="1183230974" LAST_VISITED="0">Geometric mechanics - Introduction to Mechanics and Symmetry</A> <DD>Scientific physics forums for professionals and students to discuss serious issues and topics regarding physics in theory, practice, study and reality. Students can also find help for homework and career perspectives</DD> <DT><A HREF="http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/biograph/biolagra.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Biography of Lagrange</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221576">Harmonic Oscillator</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/SHO/SHO.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The (not quite as) Simple Harmonic Oscillator</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/SHO/mass.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Simple Harmonic Oscillator</A> <DT><A HREF="http://monet.unibas.ch/~elmer/pendulum/harmosc.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Harmonic Oscillator</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~tim/open/har/node5.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Spherical Harmonic Oscillator</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221584">Poisson's brackets</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.chaos.org.uk/~eddy/physics/poisson.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Poisson Brackets</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Poisson.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Poisson biography</A> <DT><A HREF="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/laplace.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">LaPlace's and Poisson's Equations</A> <DT><A HREF="http://bessie.che.uc.edu/tlb/rctb6/node19.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Poisson-Boltzmann Equation.</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221592">Wave equations</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://id.mind.net/~zona/mstm/physics/waves/waves.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Waves</A> <DT><A HREF="http://hypertextbook.com/physics/waves/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Waves &amp; Optics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.lightandmatter.com/area1book3.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Vibrations and Waves, an online physics textbook.</A> <DT><A HREF="http://physics.usask.ca/~hirose/ep225/anim.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Animations</A> <DT><A HREF="http://physics.nad.ru/Physics/English/waves.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Waves (videos/animations)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3drcpE-0Inc" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">YouTube - Physics of Fluids - Waves in a large free sphere of water</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/Science/Physics/physicsMIT03_VOD.asp" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">College Physics: Vibration and Waves</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221598">Liquids and gases</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.eequalsmcsquared.auckland.ac.nz/sites/emc2/tl/fluid-mechanics/overview.cfm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Overview - Fluid Mechanics - Emc2</A> <DT><A HREF="http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/fluid_mechanics.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Fluid Mechanics (excerpt from the Encyclopedia Britannica)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://homepage.mac.com/dtrapp/ePhysics.f/labIII_8.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Lab III-8: Behavior of Gases</A> <DT><A HREF="http://rafiki.tau.ac.il/~rabani/ri/cliquids.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Classical Liquids and Glasses</A> <DT><A HREF="http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/kinetic_theory.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Kinetic Theory of Gases: A Brief Review</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/c120/gaskinetics.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Kinetic Theory of Gases</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.bcpl.net/~kdrews/kmt/kmt.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Kinetic Molecular Theory</A> <DT><A HREF="http://members.aol.com/profchm/gas_laws.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Behavior of Gases</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.chm.davidson.edu/ChemistryApplets/GasLaws/GasConstant.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Gas Laws: Ideal Gas Law and the Gas Constant</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/eqstat.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Equation of State</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/gaslaw.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Special processes of an ideal gas</A> <DT><A HREF="http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/gas.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Gases and Fluids - Physics - Numericana</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221606">Navier-Stokes equations</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://web.archive.org/web/20060518222143/http://www.navier-stokes.net/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">[archived] Navier-Stokes Equations: Introduction</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.efunda.com/formulae/fluids/navier_stokes.cfm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Navier-Stokes Equations in Fluid Mechanics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.coolissues.com/mathematics/Navier-Stokes/nstokes.htm" ADD_DATE="1183232225" LAST_VISITED="0">Navier-Stokes type equations and their explicit solutions (James Constant)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.eng.vt.edu/fluids/msc/ns/nsintro.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Navier-Stokes Equations: Introduction</A> <DT><A HREF="http://universe-review.ca/R13-10-NSeqs.htm" ADD_DATE="1183232288" LAST_VISITED="0">Fluid Dynamics and the Navier-Stokes Equations (from the universe-review.ca website)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://graphics.ucsd.edu/~henrik/papers/smoke/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Visual Simulation of Smoke</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.math.duke.edu/~alayton/research/water/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Water Wave Simulation</A> <DT><A HREF="http://mail.google.com/mail/?disablechatbrowsercheck=1" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183338569">Gmail - Inbox (402)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.cham.co.uk/website/new/cfdintro.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (ie CFD)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www-berkeley.ansys.com/cfd/CFD_homepages.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">CFD WWW home pages list</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221613">Viscosity and friction</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.mlms.logan.k12.ut.us/~blarsen/Calendar%20Files/friction.notes.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Notes on Friction Force</A> <DT><A HREF="http://silver.neep.wisc.edu/~lakes/VEnotes.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Viscoelasticity notes</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.fearofphysics.com/Friction/frintro.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">FearOfPhysics.com: What is Friction?</A> <DT><A HREF="http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1999/ph161/friction.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Summary of Friction</A> </DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/336k/lectures/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">An intermediate level course on Analytical Classical Dynamics by R. Fitzpatrick, Univ. of Texas, Austin.</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~phys16/lectures/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">A good set of Lecture notes from Harvard.</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/user/JamesBinney/cmech.pdf" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">A short course on Classical Mechanics by Prof. J. J. Binney</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/~gjs/6946/" ADD_DATE="1183230993" LAST_VISITED="0">Mechanics book</A> <DD>Scientific physics forums for professionals and students to discuss serious issues and topics regarding physics in theory, practice, study and reality. Students can also find help for homework and career perspectives</DD> <DT><A HREF="http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/teaching/dynamics/notes2000.html" ADD_DATE="1183231044" LAST_VISITED="0">David MacKay: Dynamics: 2000 Lecture notes</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.sydgram.nsw.edu.au/CollegeSt/extension/lagrangian.html" ADD_DATE="1183231057" LAST_VISITED="0">Sydney Grammar School - Lagrangian Dynamics</A> </DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman/461cm/classmech.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Classical Mechanics</A> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220424">02. Primary mathematics</H3> <DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220941">Numbers</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/JamesBinney/complex.pdf" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Prof. James Binney's course on complex numbers(PDF)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~calculus/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">calculus.org - THE CALCULUS PAGE .</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220953">Set theory</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/set-theory/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183227275">Set Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.cis.syr.edu/~sanchis/setory.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Set Theory links</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahcjm/stp.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Set Theory Preprints</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.phil.cmu.edu/projects/ast/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Algebraic Set Theory</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.jboden.demon.co.uk/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Mathematics of Set Theory</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220975">Algebra</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.wtamu.edu/academic/anns/mps/math/mathlab/beg_algebra" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Beginning Algebra</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.wtamu.edu/academic/anns/mps/math/mathlab/int_algebra/index.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Intermediate Algebra</A> <DT><A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/18.06/www/Video/video-fall-99.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183226769">18.06 Linear Algebra Videos Fall 1999</A> <DT><A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/18.06/www/Video/video-fall-99.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">18.06 Linear Algebra Videos Fall 1999</A> <DT><A HREF="http://xmlearning.maths.ed.ac.uk/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Linear Algebra for Informatics</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220979">Calculus</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://homepages.roadrunner.com/askmrcalculus/VisCalc.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Visual Calculus Links</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220986">Probability theory</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.peterwebb.co.uk/probability.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Probability Theory - The Laymans guide to probability - http://www.probabilitytheory.info</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.probability.net/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183227229">Probability Tutorials</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220998">Trigonometry</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/trig/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Dave E. Joyce's trigonometry course</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.sosmath.com/trig/trig.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">S.O.S. Math - Trigonometry</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.ping.be/~ping1339/gonio.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">An introduction to TRIGONOMETRY</A> </DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/pope/mch1.ps" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Methods1-ch1</A> <DT><A HREF="http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/pope/mch2.ps" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Methods1-ch2</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/winter99/complex.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The complex plane. Cauchy theorems and contour integration</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/alex_stef/mylist.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183228940">Textbooks, lecture notes and tutorials in mathematics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/mathematics.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183226915">Free online textbooks, videos, tutorials, lecture notes, re: mathematics</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220449">04. Optics</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://phas.ucalgary.ca/phys323/fall/docs/optics.pdf" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">A.A. Louro's lecture Notes on Optics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~jones/ap216/lectures/lectures.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">R. V. Jones lecture notes on Classical and Quantum Optics</A> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221698">Fraction and reflection</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://id.mind.net/~zona/mstm/physics/light/rayOptics/refraction/refraction1.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Light Refraction</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/Phys/Class/refrn/u14l1d.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Optical Density and Light Speed</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy05/phy05123.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Optical Density and Refraction</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00384.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Reflection and Refraction</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.circlon-theory.com/HTML/reflection.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Reflection</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/illumin/reflect1.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Reflection of Light from a Surface</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/optie.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Optical effects</A> <DT><A HREF="http://pluto.phys.umbc.edu/colloquia/?sid=97" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">UMBC Colloquia: Ultrafast Optical Phenomena</A> <DT><A HREF="http://elf.gi.alaska.edu/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Red Sprites and Blue Jets</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221713">Lenses and mirrors</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/physics/u6b2phy.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Physics 20 - Optics - Lenses</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.btinternet.com/~k.trethewey/how_do_lenses_and_prisms_work.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">How do lenses and prisms work?</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/mirrors.asp" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">How do mirrors work?</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.sciencetheatre.org/ask_st/041796.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">4/17/98 - How do mirrors work?</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.physorg.com/news9242.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Humans Do Not Understand Mirror Reflections, Say Researchers</A> <DT><A HREF="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/mirrors.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Why do Mirrors Reverse Left and Right?</A> <DT><A HREF="http://amos.indiana.edu/library/scripts/twoway.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">How Two-way Mirrors Work</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221720">Telescopes and microscopes</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.astronomynotes.com/telescop/s2.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Types of Telescopes</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.scn.org/sastro/paths.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Types of Telescopes (briefly)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.astronomywa.net.au/education/tel_types.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Different Types of Telescopes</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.souledout.org/rsl/telescope/choosingtelescope.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">CHOOSING A TELESCOPE</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.omni-optical.com/telescope/ut104.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Very short history of the telescope</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.europa.com/~telscope/binotele.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The history of the telescope and the binocular (many links)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/intro/histo.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Mic-UK [site A]: An Introduction to Microscopy</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.brianjford.com/wavbiblio.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The discovery by Brian J Ford of Leeuwenhoek's original specimens, from the dawn of microscopy in the 16th century.</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~bcb/history.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Scanning Electron Microscope History</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.sfc.fr/Material/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/materials/public/ElecMicr.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">History of electron microscopy</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.umesci.maine.edu/ams/microsc.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183236007">Microscopy WWW sites</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.ou.edu/research/electron/mirror/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Microscopy Page</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.amc.anl.gov/Docs/ANL/TPM/TPMHomePage.html" ADD_DATE="1183236054" LAST_VISITED="1183236100">Telepresence microscopy system</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ms/resources/anatomy/ambi/microsc.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">AMBI Microscopy Links</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221727">Wave propagation</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/CommunityCollege/Ultrasonics/Physics/wavepropagation.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Wave Propagation</A> <DT><A HREF="http://ecjones.org/physics.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Ionospheric Physics of Radio Wave Propagation</A> <DT><A HREF="http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&amp;verb=getRecord&amp;metadataPrefix=html&amp;identifier=ADA175073" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Nonlinear Wave Propagation.</A> <DT><A HREF="http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/0101.7071" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Front: [physics/0101071] Elastic wave propagation along DNA</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221734">Doppler effect</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/doppler.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Doppler Shift</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/doppler/doppler.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Doppler Effect and Sonic Booms</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221740">Huygen's principle of wave superposition</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.ifg.tu-clausthal.de/java/huyg/huyg_how-e.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Huygens' Principle HowTo</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.rodenburg.org/theory/y1000.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Huygen's Principle</A> <DT><A HREF="http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Spherical_Waves_Point_Source.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Spherical Waves from a Point Source</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.lightandmatter.com/html_books/5op/ch05/ch05.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Wave Optics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://musr.physics.ubc.ca/~jess/hr/skept/Waves/node20.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Huygens' Principle (briefly)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/superposition/superposition.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Superposition of Waves</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/schroedinger/index.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Experiments on Wave Interference</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.cord.edu/dept/physics/p128/lecture99_34.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Physics 128 Lecture: Wave Superposition</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?topic=19" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Superposition Principle of Wave</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221750">Wave fronts</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://hendrix.uoregon.edu/~demo/Demo/OWS/Waves/String.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Wave Fronts on a String</A> <DT><A HREF="http://emis.math.ecnu.edu.cn/journals/LRG/Articles/lrr-2004-9/articlesu2.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">2.2 Wave fronts</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221757">Caustics</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.du.edu/~etuttle/math/caustic.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Caustics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Hamilton/Rays/HistCaustics.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">History of the paper `On Caustics'.</A> </DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.phy.davidson.edu/StuHome/cabell_f/diffractionfinal/pages/history.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The History of Optics and Interferometry</A> <DT><A HREF="http://mail.google.com/mail/?disablechatbrowsercheck=1" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183338569">Gmail - Inbox (404)</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220456">05. Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www1.spms.ntu.edu.sg/~alfred/teaching.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The course &quot;Statistical Mechanics&quot; by Alfred Huan</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/Phys603/kelly/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Prof. Kelly's lecture notes on Statistical Physics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://stp.clarku.edu/notes/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183236660">Gould/Tobochnik lecture notes</A> <DT><A HREF="http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/sm1/sm1.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Intermediate level course on Statistical Mechanics by R. Fitzpatrick</A> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221911">Laws of thermodynamics</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.pacifier.com/~ppenn/whatis2.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">What is Energy?</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.secondlaw.com/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Second Law of Thermodynamics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.2ndlaw.com/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.rain.org/~rcurtis/thermo.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Four Laws of Thermodynamics - Robert Kern Curtis</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.panspermia.org/seconlaw.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Second Law of Thermodynamics. by Brig Klyce</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.entropysite.com/entropy_isnot_disorder.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">ENTROPY IS NOT &quot;DISORDER&quot;</A> </DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://stp.clarku.edu/books/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Books on Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics</A> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221922">Boltzmann distribution</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://neon.chem.uidaho.edu/~honors/boltz.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.usd.edu/phys/courses/phys431/notes/max_bol.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution Function (Derivation)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://230nsc1.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/disbol.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution Example</A> <DT><A HREF="http://musr.physics.ubc.ca/~jess/hr/skept/Therm/node18.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Boltzmann Distribution</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.chm.davidson.edu/ChemistryApplets/KineticMolecularTheory/Maxwell.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Kinetic Molecular Theory: Maxwell Distribution</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.glue.umd.edu/~nsw/ench250/boltzman.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution Function</A> <DT><A HREF="http://fozzy.wvstateu.edu/~naga/boltzmann_distribution.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Boltzmann Distribution</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.bcpl.net/~kdrews/kmt/kmtpart5.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Kinetic Molecular Theory:Part 5</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221930">Carnot cycle, entropy, heat engines</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://library.thinkquest.org/C006011/english/sites/thermo3.php3?v=2" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Carnot Cycle</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.taftan.com/thermodynamics/CARNOT.HTM" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Carnot Cycle</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.bpreid.com/applets/carnotDemo.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Carnot Cycle for ideal gases</A> <DT><A HREF="http://230nsc1.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/carnotcon.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Carnot Cycle Concepts</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.entropysite.com/entropy_isnot_disorder.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183239402">ENTROPY IS NOT &quot;DISORDER&quot;</A> <DT><A HREF="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/heatengcon.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Heat Engine Concepts</A> <DT><A HREF="http://thermalmotion.net/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Heat engines</A> <DT><A HREF="http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond/classes/ph13xbook/node248.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Heat Engines (with mathematics)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.physics.nmt.edu/~raymond/classes/ph13xbook/node239.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Ideal Gas and Heat Engines</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~vawter/PhysicsNet/Topics/ThermLaw2/Entropy/GasCycleEngines.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Ideal Heat Engine Gas Cycles</A> <DT><A HREF="http://newton.umsl.edu/infophys/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183237249">Information-Physics One</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221938">Phase transitions and thermodynamical models</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/cs_phase.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Phase Transitions in the Early Universe</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/e-notes/Perc/contents.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Phase transitions on lattices</A> <DT><A HREF="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/phase.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Phase Changes</A> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_transition" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Phase transition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> <DT><A HREF="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6931111914973007511" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Thermodynamic Models of Solutions</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/tchemie/Thermo_Models.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Thermodynamic Models</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.me.gatech.edu/energy/andy_phd/three.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Cycle Thermodynamic Model</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221953">Ising model</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://bartok.ucsc.edu/peter/java/ising/keep/ising.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Ising-Model</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.plmsc.psu.edu/~www/matsc597c-1997/phases/Lecture3/index.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Ising Model and Its Applications</A> <DT><A HREF="http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/sethna/teaching/sss/ising/intro.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Introduction to the Ising Model</A> <DT><A HREF="http://stp.clarku.edu/simulations/ising/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Simulations for Statistical and Thermal Physics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://itp.tu-graz.ac.at/~erkinger/plaquettes.f90" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">http://itp.tu-graz.ac.at/~erkinger/plaquettes.f90</A> <DT><A HREF="http://webphysics.davidson.edu/applets/ising/default.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183239100">Ising Model Main Page</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.physik.tu-dresden.de/itp/members/kobe/isingconf.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Ernst Ising and the Ising model</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183221962">Planck's radiation law (prelude to quantum mechanics)</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.vias.org/encyclopedia/planck_blackbody_radiation.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">VIAS Encyclopedia: Planck's Radiation Law</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.storm.uni.edu/rs/2001/EXArs.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Radiation</A> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck's_law_of_black_body_radiation" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Planck's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.rumford.com/radiant/formulas.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Radiant Heat Formulas</A> <DT><A HREF="http://hypertextbook.com/physics/modern/planck/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Planck's Hypothesis</A> <DT><A HREF="http://alfven.princeton.edu/projects/ThermalRad.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Thermal Radiation Overview</A> </DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://stp.clarku.edu/notes/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Thermal and Statistical Physics</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220468">06. Electronics</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/electricCircuits/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Lessons In Electric Circuits by T. R. Kuphaldt</A> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222085">Ohm's law</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/ohmmic.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Ohm's Law, Microscopic View</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.purchon.com/physics/ohmslaw.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Ohm's Law</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222095">Capacitors</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/capacitor.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Howstuffworks &quot;How Capacitors Work&quot;</A> <DT><A HREF="http://amasci.com/emotor/cap1.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">ELECTRICITY MISCONCEPTIONS: Capacitor</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222102">Inductors</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/inductor.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Howstuffworks &quot;How Inductors Work&quot;</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.coilws.com/magneticandhow.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183241468">Magnetic and How Transformers, Chokes and Inductors Works</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222110">Transistors</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.satcure-focus.com/tutor/page4.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">How do Transistors Work?</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.williamson-labs.com/480_xtor.htm#introduction" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Transistors</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may97/859495932.Eg.r.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Re: How do transistors work?</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222117">Diodes</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.mtmi.vu.lt/pfk/funkc_dariniai/diod/index.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">p-n Junction</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.pbs.org/transistor/science/info/diodes.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Diodes</A> </DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220475">07. Electromagnetism</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://monopole.ph.qmw.ac.uk/~bill/emt/LecNotes.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">W.J.Spence, Electromagnetism</A> <DT><A HREF="http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/jk1/jk1.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Notes on Classical Electromagnetism by R. Fritzpatrick.</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.plasma.uu.se/CED/Book" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Bo Thide's EM Field theory text(advanced)</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~rmagyar/physics/jackson.ps" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">set 1</A> <DT><A HREF="http://samizdat.mines.edu/jackson/main.pdf" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">set 2</A> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222189">Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism</H3> <DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222207">Inhomogeneous</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222201">Homogenous</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Projects/Johnson/Chapters/Ch4_4.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Electromagnetic Field</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/omei/gr/chap1/node2.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The equations of electromagnetism</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.mathpages.com/rr/s2-02/2-02.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Force Laws and Maxwell's Equations</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/jw/module3_Maxwell.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Maxwell's equations: are they really so beautiful that you would dump Newton?</A> <DT><A HREF="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/maxeq.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Maxwell's Equations</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222220">Maxwell's laws in a medium</H3> <DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222287">Vacuum and homogenous medium (electromagnetic waves)</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222303">In a box (wave guides)</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222310">At boundaries (fraction and reflection)</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222233">Vector potential</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_potential" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Vector potential - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> <DT><A HREF="http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/lectures/node38.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The magnetic vector potential</A> <DT><A HREF="http://230nsc1.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/magnetic/magvec.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Magnetic Vector Potential</A> <DT><A HREF="http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/bluesky/potentials.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Scalar and vector potentials</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=vector%20potential" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">vector potential@Everything2.com</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www-math.mit.edu/~djk/18_022/chapter08/section03.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">8.3 When is a Vector Field the Curl of Another?</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222250">Gauge invariance</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.vttoth.com/gauge.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Principle of Gauge Invariance</A> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_theory" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183336661">Gauge theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> <DT><A HREF="http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/math-ph/9902027" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">[math-ph/9902027] Preparation for Gauge Theory</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9705211" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">[hep-ph/9705211] Introduction to Gauge Theories</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222254">EM emission and absorption of EM waves</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.astronomynotes.com/light/s5.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Electromagnetic Radiation</A> <DT><A HREF="http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/mod_tech/node151.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Emission spectrum</A> <DT><A HREF="http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/mod_tech/node152.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Absorption spectrum</A> <DT><A HREF="http://acept.asu.edu/PiN/rdg/visnxray/visnxray.shtml" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Photon Absorption: Visible and X-rays</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00546.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">IR Photon Emission</A> </DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.rocket-roar.com/BWCM/em/wave.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">BWCM - E&amp;M - EM Wave Propagation</A> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222268">EM antenna</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.cebik.com/trans/ant-design.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Antenna Design</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.rfcafe.com/references/design_data/antenna_design_data.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">RF Cafe - Antenna Design Websites</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.ac6v.com/antprojects.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Amateur Radio Antenna Projects</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.dxzone.com/catalog/Antennas/Theory/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Antenna : Antennas: Theory</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222276">Light scattering against objects</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.ap-lab.com/light_scattering.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Laser Light Scattering</A> <DT><A HREF="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/blusky.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Blue Sky and Rayleigh Scattering</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.philiplaven.com/p8b.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Rayleigh scattering</A> <DT><A HREF="http://chemgroups.northwestern.edu/hupp/hrs.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering</A> <DT><A HREF="http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/lectures/node97.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Rayleigh scattering (equation intensive)</A> </DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.ee.iastate.edu/~hsiu/em_movies.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">EM Wave Movies</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220482">08. Quantum mechanics</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/home.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Introduction to QM and special relativity: Michael Fowler</A> <DT><A HREF="http://walet.phy.umist.ac.uk/QM/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Niels Walet lecture course on QM</A> <DT><A HREF="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Chemistry/5-74Spring-2004/LectureNotes/index.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Lecture Notes on QM from MIT</A> <DT><A HREF="http://walet.phy.umist.ac.uk/QM/LectureNotes/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">lecture notes</A> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222931">Bohr's atom</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/quantumzone/bohr.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Bohr's Atom</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph11e/bohrh.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom</A> <DT><A HREF="http://library.thinkquest.org/19662/low/eng/model-bohr.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Bohr's atom model</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222941">de Broglie's relations (energy-frequency, momentum-wave number)</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/Bohr_to_Waves/Bohr_to_Waves.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">From Bohr's Atom to Electron Waves</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222955">Ehrenfest's theorem</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfest_theorem" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Ehrenfest theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> <DT><A HREF="http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1326173" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Ehrenfest's Theorem@Everything2.com</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.plasmagicians.com/wiki/Ehrenfest's_Theorem" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183245496">Ehrenfest's Theorem - PlasmaWiki</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222972">Schrödinger's equation (with electric potential and magnetic field)</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://library.thinkquest.org/19662/low/eng/indeterminate.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Propability wave and indeterminacy principle</A> </DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_quantum_mechanics" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Introduction to quantum mechanics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.quantumintro.com/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Todd's Intro to Quantum Mechanics</A> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222977">A particle in a box</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_in_a_box" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183243079">Particle in a box - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> <DT><A HREF="http://user.mc.net/~buckeroo/PODB.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Particle in a One Dimensional Box</A> <DT><A HREF="http://bouman.chem.georgetown.edu/S02/lect13/lect13.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Particle in a Box</A> <DT><A HREF="http://msc.phys.rug.nl/quantummechanics/potential.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Motion in a potential</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222982">Hydorgen atom solution</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://mail.google.com/mail/?disablechatbrowsercheck=1" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183338569">Gmail - Re: Future internet (was Re: How Long Before the Internet Becomes Sentient?)</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183222991">Zeeman effect</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223003">Stark effect</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223008">Quantum harmonic oscillator</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/hosc.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Quantum Harmonic Oscillator</A> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_harmonic_oscillator" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Quantum harmonic oscillator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.math.harvard.edu/archive/21b_fall_03/harmonic/index.html" ADD_DATE="1183246234" LAST_VISITED="0">Quantum Harmonic Oscillator (Oliver Knill)</A> <DD>Classical and Quantum Harmonic Oscillator</DD> <DT><A HREF="http://www.nyu.edu/classes/tuckerman/stat.mech/lectures/lecture_13/node8.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">A simple example - the quantum harmonic oscillator</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.falstad.com/qm3dosc/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Quantum Mechanics: 3-Dimensional Harmonic Oscillator Applet</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223019">Operators</H3> <DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223027">Energy</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223039">Momentum</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223044">Angular momentum</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223048">Creation</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223055">Annihilation</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/qmoper.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Operators in Quantum Mechanics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_(physics)" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183245860">Operator (physics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.eng.fsu.edu/~dommelen/research/nano/quantum/correct/node22.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">2.3 The Operators of Quantum Mechanics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://venables.asu.edu/quant/huzhan/qm_web.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Operator Theory for Quantum Physics</A> <DT><A HREF="http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ncp/OpAlgResources/OpAlgPages/opalg.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183246083">Operator algebra page of N. C. Phillips</A> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_algebra" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Von Neumann algebra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> <DT><A HREF="http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/ramazan/algop.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Operator Algebras Home Page</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.imada.sdu.dk/Research/operator_algebras.php" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Operator Algebras</A> <DT><A HREF="http://hilbert.unbc.ca/operator/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Operator Algebras in Canada</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~ppinto/oabooks.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Operator algebras books</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223069">Commutation rules of the operators</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223078">Introduction to quantum mechanical scattering</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223178">S-matrix</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223182">Radio-active decay</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Radioactive decay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> <DT><A HREF="http://buphy.bu.edu/py106/notes/RadioactiveDecay.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Radioactive decay</A> <DT><A HREF="http://serc.carleton.edu/quantskills/methods/quantlit/RadDecay.html" ADD_DATE="1183246425" LAST_VISITED="0">How does radioactive decay work? (Jennifer M. Wenner)</A> <DD> Quantitative concepts: exponential growth and decay, probablility How Does Radioactive Decay Work? created by Jennifer M. Wenner, Geology Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Jump down to: ...</DD> <DT><A HREF="http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/lawdecay.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Law of radioactive decay</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183246478">HotBits: Genuine Random Numbers</A> </DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.qmw.ac.uk/~zgap118/3/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Particle-like wave behaviour</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220488">09. Atoms and molecules</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/notes/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Notes on General Quantum Chemistry from Georgiatech</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.cord.edu/faculty/ulnessd/pchem/notes06-07.pdf" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Lecture notes on Physical Chemistry by Darin J. Ulness</A> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223321">Chemical bonding</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch8/valenceframe.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Covalent Bond</A> <DT><A HREF="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/chemical/bond.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Chemical Bonds</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.physchem.co.za/Bonding/Bonds.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Types of Bonds</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/c120/hybrid.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Valence Bond Theory and Hybrid Atomic Orbitals</A> <DT><A HREF="http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch8/mo.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Molecular Orbital Theory</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca/esam/Chapter_6/problems.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Chemical Bond - Problems</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/c120/hybridcarbon.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Hybrid Orbitals in Carbon Compounds</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223330">Orbitals</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.mpcfaculty.net/ron_rinehart/orbitals.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Orbitals</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.chem.purdue.edu/gchelp/aos/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Atomic Orbitals</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223517">Atomic and molecular spectra</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/quantumzone/lines2.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Atomic Spectra</A> <DT><A HREF="http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/light/absorption.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Atomic Absorption and Emission Spectra</A> <DT><A HREF="http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/ASD/index.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">NIST: Atomic Spectra Database - home page</A> <DT><A HREF="http://das101.isan.troitsk.ru/bibl.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">BIBL - Atomic Spectra Bibliography Database</A> <DT><A HREF="http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/MolSpec/index.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">NIST Molecular Spectral Databases Main Page</A> <DT><A HREF="http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/~wilms/teach/radproc/radprocchap13toc.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Astrophysical Radiation Processes: Molecules and Molecular Spectra</A> <DT><A HREF="http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/analytical/Mol_spec_equip/" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Molecular spectroscopy equipment.</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223525">Emission and absorption of light</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223535">Quantum selection rules</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_rule" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Selection rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.shef.ac.uk/physics/teaching/phy332/atomic_physics3.pdf" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">http://www.shef.ac.uk/physics/teaching/phy332/atomic_physics3.pdf</A> <DT><A HREF="http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/AtSpec/node17.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">NIST: Atomic Spectros. - Spectral Lines</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183223542">Magnetic moment</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_moment" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Magnetic moment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> <DT><A HREF="http://webphysics.davidson.edu/physlet_resources/bu_semester2/c16_atomic.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Magnetism on the atomic level</A> <DT><A HREF="http://cultureofchemistry.blogspot.com/2006/01/magnetic-moment.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">The Culture of Chemistry: A Magnetic Moment</A> </DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183220495">10. Solid state physics</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://folk.uio.no/yurig/fys448/f448pdf.pdf" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">An introduction to Solid State Physics by Yuri M. Galperin</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.physics.uc.edu/~jarrell/COURSES/SOLID_STATE_HTML/course_solid.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">A course in Solid State Physics by Mark Jarrell</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~nayak/solid_state.pdf" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Solid State Physics: notes by Chetan Nayak</A> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183224757">Crystal groups</H3> <DL><P> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183224767">Bragg reflection</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bragg_diffraction" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="1183263097">Bragg diffraction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> <DT><A HREF="http://www.citycollegiate.com/interference_braggs.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">DIFFRACTIONOF X-RAYS THROUGH CRYSTALS-BRAGG'S EQUATION</A> <DT><A HREF="http://srs.dl.ac.uk/station/9.4/diffraction-selection-rules.htm" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Diffraction Selection Rules</A> </DL><P> <DT><H3 ADD_DATE="1183224780">Dielectric and diamagnetic constants</H3> <DL><P> <DT><A HREF="http://www.clippercontrols.com/info/dielectric_constants.html" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Dielectric Constants of Materials</A> <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_constant" ADD_DATE="0" LAST_VISITED="0">Dielectric con