• A Gradeless College? (A provocative excerpt from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig)
• How to Study Physics (by Dan Styer, Oberlin College)
• How to Solve Physics Problems (by Dan Styer, Oberlin College)
• A few of my own thoughts about being one of my students

• The so-called "Twin Paradox" of special relativity complete with detailed spacetime diagrams
• A simple, event-based, graphical derivation of the relativistic Doppler shift and aberration angle
• A Method for solving problems using Newton's Second Law

• Sinusoidally driven, series LRC circuits
• Standing Waves
• Constructing Wave Packets (Spreadsheet)
• Phase and Group Velocities of Wave Packets
• Interference Patterns of Two Point Sources
• Scales of the Universe
• Everything you need to know about vector calculus in
  • Cylindrical Coordinates
  • Spherical Coordinates

• My IP page
• Richard Vawter's Collection (Western Washington University

• PhET (Physics Education Technology)
• Paul Falstad
• Physlets (Davidson College: Wolfgang Christian, et.al.)
• Michael Fowler

©2001 by A. John Mallinckrodt
ajm at csupomona.edu
http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm

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