USEFUL LINKS AND REFERENCE MATERIAL

• Dr. Simpson's Home Page
• Textbook Student Home Page
• Department of Physical Sciences and Engineering
• Prince George's Community College
• Owl Link
• Physics is Phun at the University of Maryland
• University of Maryland Physics Department
• Information on SI units
• Information on physical constants
• Oscilloscope tutorial
• The Crystal Set Society
• Electric Hobby Projects
• Program CONVERT to do unit conversions
• Excalibur RPN Calculator for Windows
• Fortran information (including free book and compiler) by Clive Page
• Griffenfly Universal Slide Rule software
• MAA MinuteMath
• Mathematical Tools for Physics by James Nearing
• Periodic Tables of the Elements:  WebElements - Dynamic Periodic Table
• Wolfram|Alpha
• World of Physics
• Frequently Asked Questions about the Earth's Magnetic Field (U.S. Geological Survey)
• Khan Academy (tutorial videos in math and science)
• PhET Interactive Simulations
• Optics Bench Applet (Davidson College)
• Lessons in Electric Circuits
• Free e-book, Newtonian Dynamics by Richard Fitzpatrick (U. Texas)
• Richard Feynman's Messenger Lectures (Cornell University, 1964)
• Acoustics and Vibration Animations by Dan Russell, Kettering University)
• Demo of helium and sulfur hexafluoride voices -  Another SF6
• Doppler shift at the Indianapolis 500
• Virtual Piano
• Music Demos:
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm
  • Opus One (G major; 1944)
  • Johnny B. Goode (1958)
  • Java (1963)
  • Song of the Volga Boatmen

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