Physics 301
Modern Physics
Class Resources


In-class Activities

Homework

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

OpenStax at Rice University
University Physics, Volume 1
University Physics, Volume 2
University Physics, Volume 3

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