Physics 211: Related Links

• Syllabus
• Lectures
• Homeworks
• Miscellaneous

Duke Links:

• Duke Physics Challenges.
• Registrar's home page (ACES, ACES web, etc.)

• Physics Department.
• Physics 143 (Prerequisite to 211).
• Physics 212 (course after 211).

• Applets:
  • Blackbody radiation. From the Davidson site http://webphysics.davidson.edu/ .
  • Hydrogenic wave functions applet on the link http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Applets/java11_Archive.html, under the listing "Version 3, Hydrogenic" in the left vertical column.
  • Wavefunctions of particle in a infinitely high well with variable center. (buggy)
  • Physics Applets
  • Propagation of Gaussian wave packet.
  • Quantum oscillator Applet with source code.
• Computer games by Tarun Biswas to illustrate quantum mechanics.
  • Quantum duck hunt.
  • Quantum focus.
• Quantum courses:
  • MIT's Quantum Physics I and Quantum Physics II
  • UCSD Intro to QM
  • U. Colorado (Boulder) Intro to QM
  • University of Urbana/Champaign "Waves and QM"
• QuantumExchange.org, website that collects educational material related to quantum mechanics.
• Student understanding of quantum mechanics.
• Visual quantum mechanics (KSU Visual Quantum Mechanics).

• Nature
• Physics Focus    Easy-to-read brief summaries of recent Physical Review Letters.
• Physics News Update    Easy-to-read brief summaries of general advances in Physics, often with nice graphics.
• Physical Review Letters Online.    The premier physics journal for new important results.
• Physics Today    Monthly magazine of the American Physical Society.
• Science    The premier American journal for important results in all areas of science.
• Science News     Brief nontechnical discussions of recent advances in science.

• Bose-Einstein Condensation homewpage.
• Feynman's talk on nanoscience "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom".
• David Mermin (ideas, papers on quantum mechanics, quantum computing).
• Millikan's Measurement of Planck's Constant
• Nanotechnology links
• National Academy of Press summary of frontiers in nuclear physics
• Nobel Prizes in Physics.
• The Official String Theory Web Site
• The Periodic Table.
• Quantum computing links.
• Quantum resources (many useful links).
• Writing words on a hydrogen atom; quantum wave packets (Carlos Stroud's group).

• Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
• Albert Einstein
• Werner Heisenberg
• Werner Heisenberg (AIP Online Exhibition)
• Erwin Schrodinger