Physics 301 (Modern Physics) Resources

Physics 301
Modern Physics
Class Resources

Readings
	Knight Spacetime Diagrams OpenStax What Is Matter?

In-class Activities

Class Notes

Study Skills
	How to Get the Most Out of Studying (Video Series by Peter Chew, Samford University) Learn How to Learn (Study tips from the American Psychological Society) Ten Rules of Good (& Bad) Studying (Study tips from Barbara Oakley, Ph.D.) Test Taking Strategies

Books, Articles, and Web sites
	100 Years of Quantum Mysteries The Strange Story of the Quantum Heisenberg and the Early Days of Quantum Mechanics The Quantum Theory and Reality Is the moon there when nobody looks? Reality and the quantum theory What the State Function Isn't MIT Open Courseware - Quantum Physics I Quantum Mechanics for Engineers The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Simulations & Animations
	Interactive Minkowski Spacetime Diagram PhET - University of Colorado at Boulder Quantum Mechanics Visualisation project - University of St Andrews Dr. Dan Russell's Wave Animations - Pennsylvania State University Wave Movies Phase Velocity & Group Velocity-Movies Phase Velocity & Group Velocity-Simulation

Mathematica Notebooks
	Tutorial by Dan Schroeder, Weber State University Data for Tutorial Minkowski Spacetime Diagram Wave Pulse Traveling Wave Standing Wave 2 Wave Superposition Fourier Series Infinite Potential Well Simple Harmonic Oscillator

Spreadsheets
	Traveling Waves SHM 1 SHM 2 Double-Slit Interference - Modeling Spreadsheet Craps Spreadsheet

Logger Pro Files
	Spring Constant SHM Fast Fourier Transform Double Slit Interference

PDFs
	Hudson - Table of Integrals Saunders - Math Tables Morrison - Math Appendices Properties of Coordinate Systems SHM - Effective Mass (Sears, Zemansky, & Young) SHM - Effective Mass (Scott Yost, Univ. of Tennessee) Wave Function Form Wave Equation - Wave Function Wave Equation - String Phase Velocity - Math Interlude Single and Double Slit Interference The Postulates of Quantum Mechanics