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Collected References

These are various references and links I have collected or created over the years for the various classes I have taught.

1. Environmental References.
2. Why we know Global Warming is real.
3. Syllabi for various courses I have taught:
   • P100 Physics in the Modern World.
   • P105 Basic Physics of Sound.
     • Sound References.
   • P120 Energy and Technology.
   • P201 General Physics.
   • P202 General Physics.
   • P221 Physics I, physics with calculus.
   • P222 Physics II, physics with calculus.
   • P301 Modern Physics.
   • P309 Modern Physics lab.
   • P310 Environmental Physics.
   • Natural Science Master of Liberal Studies Seminar "Risk assessment in the Sciences".
   • D503/H307 Master of Liberal Studies Seminar, 'Environmental Issues'.
   • X303 History and Philosophy of Science; Dr. Forinash and Dr. Rumsey.
   • Courses and workshops on using the Internet to teach physics (en español).
     • Tandil (August-Oct. 2006).
     • Córdoba (April 2007).
     • San Luis (May 2007).
     • Argentina (2010).
4. Brief class notes for introductory physics.
   • Kinematics.
   • Dynamics.
   • Vectors.
   • Circular motion.
   • Energy.
   • Momentum.
   • Simple harmonic motion.
   • Thermodynamics.
   • 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics.
   • Electomagnetic spectrum (web page with links).
   • E&M properties of matter.
   • Faraday's law.
   • Waves.
   • Nuclear.
   • Quantum mechanics.
   • Quantum chemistry.
5. Thermodynamics.
   • Drinking bird YouTube video. Giant version.
   • Waking on fire.
   • Perpetual motion: Unworkable devices, Magnetic motors.
6. Modern physics notes and links.
7. Pedagogical.
   • Comments on teaching.
   • How to do error analysis.
   • How to solve a physics problem.
   • List of physics textbooks.
   • Collection of Internet resources for teaching physics: in English, in Spanish.
8. Miscellaneous.
   • Feynman speaks
   • My office: QuickTime movie, July, 2001. (1.1MB)
   • TGIF.
   • A year in Argentina.
   • Booming sand! , an article about and sound file of sand dunes which make sounds.
   • Want to do some science at home? Look for ideas at the Science Hobbiest page.
   • Brownian Motion. YouTube: Brownian Motion.
   • Is science all just a bunch of Hot Air?
9. Here are some Applets created by Wolfgang Christian's group at Davidson College Physics which I have scripted and embedded in web pages with curriculum material.

• Fislets en español (de F. Esquembre).
• Graphing utilities.
• Motion Graph Simulations.
• Thermodynamics Simulations.
• Electrostatic Simulations.
• Magnetic Simulations.
• Wave Simulations.
• Quantum Simulations.
• Waves: An Interactive Tutorial.

  Rant on various topics. Booklist of favorite books.