Physics 363: Related Links

Course Related Links

• Schroeder textbook webpage.

• Blackboard.
• Duke Community Standard.
• Duke Physics Department.
• Short-term Illness Notification. Use one of these forms to inform Duke and me that you are ill and so will miss a quiz or exam, or not be able to hand in a homework on time.

Applets and Simulations:

• Java Simulations for Statistical and Thermal Physics from the Clark University Statistical and Thermal Physics project.
• Physics Education Technology (PhET), Interactive physics simulations from the University of Colorado.

Books

1. From Eternity to Here by Sean Carroll (2010). A non-technical discussion by a leading cosmologist about the connection between entropy, cosmology, and quantum mechanics, with the goal of explaining current ideas about how an arrow of time might have formed.

Demos

• Demos for Thermal Physics by Ralph Baierlein.
• Thermodynamic demos from Haverford.

Journals

• Journal of Statistical Physics.
• Nature.
• Physical Review Letters.
• Physical Review E.
• Physics Today.
• Science.

Mathematica

• Mathematica documentation center.
• Mathematica video tutorials.
• Schroeder's Mathematica tutorial.

Miscellaneous:

• American Physical Society.
• eInstruction, makers of PRS clickers and related software.
  • Software such as InterWritePRS.
• Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics.
• Nobel Prizes in Physics.
• Phase Equilibria, some useful friendly online web pages about phase equilibria from the chemguide web site.
• Physics News Update.
• Physics Viewpoints.
• Local Science museums:
  • Morehead Planetarium and Science Museum at UNC, Chapel Hill, NC.
  • Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC.
• Science puzzles and questions:
  • Duke Physics Challenges.
  • U. of Maryland "Physics Question of the Week", see especially those related to thermodynamics.

Thermal Physics links

• History of kinetic theory.
• National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
• Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics by Richard Fitzpatrick, an online undergraduate-level text.

Pioneers:

• Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906).
• Satyendra Bose (1894-1974).
• Nicolas Carnot (1796-1832).
• Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888).
• Albert Einstein (1879-1955).
• Josian Willard Gibbs.
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894).
• James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879).
• Walther Nernst (1864-1941).
• Lars Onsager (1903-1976).
• Benjamin Thompson aka Count Rumford (1753-1814)
• Wilhelm Wien, 1864-1928.