Physics 309
Class Resources


In-class Activities

Homework

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.)
Expert Learners
Test Taking Strategies

Web sites
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Math Insight
PhET – University of Colorado at Boulder
The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Simulations
Fourier: Making Waves (PhET - University of Colorado at Boulder)
Expansion in eigenstates (QMV project - University of St Andrews)

Mathematica Notebooks
Tutorial by Dan Schroeder, Weber State University
Data for Tutorial (Save this file to the Desktop)
Example 1-Integration
Example 2-Kinematics (Graphing, Piecewise Functions)
Example 3-Thermodynamics (Graphing, Manipulation)
Example 4-Mechanics (Graphing, Manipulation)
Example 5-Waves (Graphing, Manipulation, Function Definition)
Example 6-Series (Graphing, Manipulation)
Example 7-Modeling Experimental Data (Graphing, Manipulation, Importing Data)
Data for Example 7 (Save this file to the Desktop)

Plane Polar and Rectangular Coordinates
Cylindrical Coordinates
Spherical Coordinates

Power Series Expansion activity
Power Series Expansion examples
2-D Transformation Matrices

PDF's
Hudson - Table of Integrals
Saunders - Math Tables
Morrison - Math Appendices
Schaum's - Series Expansions
Taylor - Classical Mechanics (inside cover)
Griffiths - Intro to Electrodynamics (inside cover)

Properties of Coordinate Systems
Differential Relations of Coordinate Systems
Coordinate Systems (from Griffiths-Intro to Electrodynamics)
Squares of Time Derivatives of Spatial Coordinates
Solutions to Linear, 2nd order, Non-homogeneous Differential Equations