Useful Physics links

nesf

Just post links here guys, I'll tidy the thread up after a few days of posting and condense it into one useful thread. I'm doing another sticky thread for non-techie people

I'd populate the lists myself, but to be honest I'm sick today and really not up for hunting through google.

Billy Kovachy

http://www.iop.org/

polyanin

* Mathematical Physics Equations: Index - http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/en/solutions/eqindex/eqindex-mphe.htm

* Linear Mathematical Physics Equations: Exact Solutions - http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/en/solutions/lpde.htm

* Nonlinear Mathematical Physics Equations: Exact Solutions - http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/en/solutions/npde.htm

* Nonlinear Mathematical Physics Equations: Methods - http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/en/methods/meth-pde.htm

nesf

Excellent post. Cheers.

I'm sure people will find it useful.

Stickied

ApeXaviour

Not to compete with this forum but should you require an international opinion or immediate help with homework.
http://www.physicsforums.com/
is pretty damn cool..

spooner_j

Best one out there by a long shot is Wolfram Research's site:

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com

Theyve an even bigger maths section, at

http://mathworld.wolfram.com

Both are very detailed and well worth checking out.

Other good Physics sites are:

Physics Web - http://www.physicsweb.org
HyperPhysics - http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html

juddd

This site is pretty damn cool and makes for an easy enough read, can be a bit technical but still understandable and worth the visit, every day it has new up to date news about discoveries that are being made in the world of science and physics, and I can tell you that the shear amount of stuff they are discovering is mind blowing, and a bit scarry....
It also has forums and weblogs amongst other things.

http://www.physorg.com/

And did you know that " Up to three million men around the world could be descended from a prolific medieval Irish king, according to researchers at Trinity College Dublin. A genetics study suggests that the fifth-century warlord known as "Niall of the Nine Hostages" may be the ancestor of about one in 12 Irishmen."

http://www.physorg.com/news9986.html

starn

Great Series of Feynman Lectures free to watch on line. Some other great lecture series here to.

http://www.vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8

greglo23

here's another one http://hands-on-cern.physto.se/hoc_v21en/index.html

ozt9vdujny3srf

really good one for semiconductors / optoelectronics is http://britneyspears.ac

humbert

Found these particle physics lectures to be very good.

http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/%7Ethomson/partIIIparticles/welcome.html

maximumleo

Although not what you may call a "traditional" site on physics, but if & when things are bogging that big ole brain down, take a look here and then relax, you're not the only one who feels this way :cool:

http://xkcd.com/242/

Always cheers me up after too many hours of study and work

...and you know that caring for the mental sanity of a physicist is very important, so please don't consider this irrelevant.

Lucia1712

I need to talk about an important issue with someone who knows ohisics.
emc2 and astral projection

breadmond

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVB0F7kORII

This whole series of lectures is brilliant, really explains stuff like the big bang, relativity etc in laymans terms

nitrogen

Fantastic lectures from a Dutch Physicist at MIT iTunes.

I learnt about him from an article in the NY Times.

sponsoredwalk

http://www.learnerstv.com/course.php?cat=Physics

This link is the culmination of a lot of great online physics material in one.

Some of these go pretty advanced. Chem, Math & Engineering lectures are also at that website.

Also, http://www.physics.harvard.edu/about/Phys253.html

These are lectures on Quantum Field Theory from the 70's by Sidney Coleman, really crazy stuff and each download packs in at about a gigabyte.

Also, www.khanacademy.org <---this one's great for beginners, the math is especially good.

transylman

http://nanohub.org/

A very good site for physics relating to nanotechnologhy, including semiconductor physics. Has courses, inluding slides, audio and video, lecture notes, and programs for modelling.

RolandIRL

Phet Sims

website that has loads of simulations for different physics/chemistry/biology/earth science/maths situations

good for a bit of fun - sims are downloadable. java-based

sponsoredwalk

So, after quite a while of internet browsing over the past couple of months
I've accumulated quite a hefty collection of resources for learning
first year physics & I think it's about time I posted it as I've found a few
of these resources practically nowhere on the internet.
As far as I can tell this is all 100% free and legal
& it's a shame they are not more widely known.

1: The Mechanical Universe

Alright, I'm sure a lot of people have found this set
of life-changing lectures on the internet at some time or another.
They are all on google video & in the link provided on the wikipedia page.

However, I haven't heard found any mention of the accompanying lectures that complement
the first 20 or so lectures of the mechanical universe done by Ronald Gautreau.
These lectures are in the classroom setting & get considerably more detailed
than the mechanical universe. Here is the link to them, I found them originally on itunesU.
You might want to download VLC player to play them.

2: University Physics

To complement the book University Physics are this set of lectures by Prof. Vivek Sharma.
These are absolutely superb & they would work perfectly with the book
"Fundamentals of Physics" by Halliday/Resnick or the other similar books as well.
As an added resource for the book University Physics provided
as an accompanyment for this course,
there is a website here that provides
structured homework recommendations along with solutions.

This is a great resource for self-learners.
That set of lectures will go up to around chapter 11 of University Physics
but unfortunately I cannot find any videos that go over the material
from thermodynamics to waves etc...

However, by the same teacher: This
set of lectures take up the topics of Special Relativity &
Quantum Mechanics from the University Physics book.
Here is a related source to these two sets
of videos with some added videos on problem solving etc...

3: More University Physics

Here is another absolutely brilliant set of video lectures
that people would greatly benefit from.
They follow a very similar structure to the university physics videos
but the course followed comes from the book
Physics for Scientists & Engineers by Serway/Jewett.
This set of video lectures is more problem solving orientated that the others.

If you watch the videos here (5th minute) & here you'll see what video correlates
with what chapter in the book he's using so that you can download
the correct video off the site in the original link.

This set of video lectures goes over the introductory mechanics course
but it doesn't cover thermodynamics either.
However, he does cover electromagnetism!

Do a bit of searching on that site & you'll find all of the lectures there.
He also offers notes on physics & astronomy to buy if anyone is interested.

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4: Kleppner/Kolenkow - An Introduction to Mechanics

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I wish this was a better resource
There are only a few videos that are available to correlate with this book
that is held in such high esteem. Nevertheless it's worth a mention!

Here is a set of 9 videos that are spread
throughout the semester that correlate with the Kleppner/Kolenkow book from M.I.T.

They were found on this page &
there are related resources that
go with the book found here.

5: M.I.T. Physics

This webpage contains the links to
3 semesters worth of videos on physics by Walter Lewin.
I think nearly everyone has come across this set of videos
so nothing further need be said about them.

6: Yale Physics.

This set of video lectures by Ramamurti Shankar
of Principles of Quantum Mechanics fame are also amazing but I bet
everyone has come across them along with all of the other brilliant
courses on the site.

7: Lagrangian Mechanics

Obviously not introductory but worth a mention.
This set of video lectures
goes over advanced physics from
the lagrangian formulation using the
Hand/Finch Analytical Mechanics book, I think.

Professor_Fink

1776 wrote: »

A New Quantum Physics:

No. That page video is complete nonsense, and I'm inclied to delete any link on the Phys Chem forum which has a picture of any politician as Hitler on it's homepage.

sponsoredwalk

Introductory Physics: http://calvino.polito.it/~salamon/V/
Classical Mechanics: http://www.pa.msu.edu/courses/2010fall/PHY321/VideoLectures/
Electricity & Magnetism: http://www2.pa.msu.edu/courses/2011spring/PHY234B/VideoLectures/
Theoretical Physics: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL54DF0652B30D99A4&feature=plpp

sponsoredwalk

PARTICLE PHYSICS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING
Annotated Chronological Bibliography of the Key Papers

take everything

Basic stuff on the double slit experiment but so well explained by Richard Feynman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJfjRoxCbk

Morbert

For normal people

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Sixty Symbols (Physics)
Periodic Videos (Chemsitry
Numberphile (Mathematics)
A great set of short youtube videos produced by the University of Nottingham with compelling and concise explanations of principles in physics, chemistry, and mathematics.

The Theoretical Minimum
Lectures on the heart of theoretical physics from one of the fathers of String Theory, Leonard Susskind. I cannot recommend these lectures enough.

Feynmann (Douglas Robb Memorial) Lecture Series
"Chosen by the New Scientist - best on-line videos 2007. A set of four priceless archival science video recordings from the University of Auckland (New Zealand) of the outstanding Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman - arguably the greatest science lecturer ever. Although the recording is of modest technical quality the exceptional personal style and unique delivery shine through."

MIT Open Courseware
"MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity."

How Stuff Works
"HowStuffWorks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications, is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the site is now an online resource for millions of people of all ages."

Physics for Future Presidents
"Professor Richard A. Muller. Physics for Future Presidents The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events."

Feynmann (Douglas Robb Memorial) Lecture Series
"Chosen by the New Scientist - best on-line videos 2007. A set of four priceless archival science video recordings from the University of Auckland (New Zealand) of the outstanding Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman - arguably the greatest science lecturer ever. Although the recording is of modest technical quality the exceptional personal style and unique delivery shine through."

Feynmann: The Character of Physical Law
Feynmann's Cornell lectures.

What if?


For students and the Fearless

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Physics StackExchange
The definitive resource for any technical questions you might have.

Physics Forums
For a more casual environment than StackExchange

Britney Spears's Guide to Semiconductor Physics
The name says it all.

Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
"Eric Weisstein's World of Science contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics. This resource has been assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the internet community."

HyperPhysics
"HyperPhysics is an exploration environment for concepts in physics which employs concept maps and other linking strategies to facilitate smooth navigation."

LearnersTV
A collection of online resources.

Harvard Quantum Field Theory Lectures
"Professor Coleman's wit and teaching style is legendary and, despite all that may have changed in the 35 years since these lectures were recorded, many students today are excited at the prospect of being able to view them and experience Sidney's particular genius second-hand."

Khan Academy
"Start learning now."

Nanohub
"nanoHUB.org is the premier place for computational nanotechnology research, education, and collaboration. Our site hosts a rapidly growing collection of Simulation Programs for nanoscale phenomena that run in the cloud and are accessible through a web browser. In addition to simulation devices, nanoHUB provides Online Presentations, Courses, Learning Modules, Podcasts, Animations, Teaching Materials, and more. These resources help users learn about our simulation programs and about nanotechnology in general. Our site offers researchers a venue to explore, collaborate, and publish content, as well. Much of these collaborative efforts occur via Workspaces and User groups."

Particle Physics from the Beginning
Annotated Chronological Bibliography of the Key Papers.