USEFUL LINKS AND REFERENCE MATERIAL

PGCC

• Dr. Simpson's Home Page
• Piazza for PHY 1030
• Textbook Student Home Page
• Department of Natural Sciences and Engineering
• Prince George's Community College
• Owl Link
• Blackboard
• PGCC Scholarship Portal
• NASA Internship Opportunities

General

• Khan Academy AP Physics has some nice explanations of the material for this course.
• University of Maryland Physics Department
• Free e-book, Newtonian Dynamics by Richard Fitzpatrick (U. Texas)
• Minute Physics
• Aerogels (Lawrence Livermore Labs)
• Aerogel samples may be purchased from BuyAerogel.com.
• Measuring the Moment of Inertia of a Fidget Spinner
• The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies, Explained
• Thinking Physics by Lewis Carroll Epstein
• TP2
• Morse Code World
• Calculators:
  • TI-84 Plus -  Online version
  • Swiss Micros DM 42n

Projectile Motion

• Apollo 14 Golf Shot (Alan Shepard)
• Angry Birds
• Basketball shots
  • Harlem Globetrotters, Longest Shot (2013)
  • Harlem Globetrotters, Longest Backwards Shot (2014)
  • Just for fun: Harlem Globetrotters 1956 promotional reel
  • Just for fun: Harlem Globetrotters vs. New Jersey Reds (1978)
• Monkey-Hunter demonstration (University of Minnesota)

Fluids

• Liquid Helium II, the Superfluid (parts, 1963)

Modern Physics

• Quantum Levitation
• Einstein for Everyone: Clocks and Rods
• The Particle Adventure
• The Equivalence Principle and the MICROSCOPE Mission (Physics Magazine, 15, 95 - September 14, 2022)

Astronomy and Space

• Launch of Explorer 1
• Apollo 8 Launch
• Apollo 14 Golf Shot (Alan Shepard)
• Apollo 15 Hammer and Feather Drop
• Lagrange points animation

Apollo Landing Sites

• Apollo 11 (Sea of Tranquility)  - LRO
• Apollo 12 (Ocean of Storms)  - LRO
• Apollo 14 (Fra Mauro Highlands)  - LRO
• Apollo 15 (Hadley-Apennine)  - LRO
• Apollo 16 (Descartes Highlands)  - LRO
• Apollo 17 (Taurus-Littrow)  - LRO
• All landing sites

Demonstrations

• Physics is Phun at the University of Maryland
• Physclips (University of New South Wales)
• Sulphur Hexafluoride Demo
• Demonstrations in Physics by Professor Julius Sumner Miller -  Cosmo Learning -  YouTube (best quality) pgccphy.net

Computer Simulations

• PhET Interactive Simulations

Computation

• 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
• Distributed Computing and Citizen Science links
• enCOMPASS - NASA Computational Case Studies
• Virtual Slide Rule - Manual
• MIT Mathlets

Laboratory Work

• Oscilloscope tutorial

Physics Tutorials

• Khan Academy (tutorial videos in math and science)
• World Science U

Reference

• Information on SI units
• Information on physical constants
• Periodic Tables of the Elements:  WebElements - Dynamic Periodic Table
• Wolfram|Alpha
• World of Physics
• HyperPhysics (Georgia State University)
• Physics Stack Exchange
• The Physics Factbook
• Preliminary Reference Earth Model (PREM)
• US Standard Atmosphere 1976

Richard Feynman

• Richard Feynman's Messenger Lectures (Cornell University, 1964)
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics
• Richard Feynman on How Magnets Work
• Richard Feynman: Fun to Imagine (HD, 1983)
• Richard Feynman: Fun to Imagine (1983)  - 1  - 2  - 3  - 4  - 5  - 6

Just for Fun

• The Crystal Set Society
• Electric Hobby Projects
• Frequently Asked Questions about the Earth's Magnetic Field (U.S. Geological Survey)
• “Blueberry Earth”: The Atlantic -  Forbes -  Scientific American -  arxiv.org paper"
• Paper-and-pencil method for finding square roots
• The Apollo Guidance Computer

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