Physics 101 - Physics Resources
- Reminder:
There are a number of ways to get extra help in this class -
these include:
-
- - me (office hours: Wed 1-4 PM,
or Email or phone to schedule another time to meet).
- - Your problem session instructor.
- - The tutoring sessions (Wed. & Thurs., 4-5 PM in Small 240).
- - The SPS (Society of
Physics students) will be offering free tutoring: Tuesday evenings, 7:00 PM,
in the physics conference room (Small 123).
- - Your
Laboratory TA is mainly responsible for lab, but can help you with other
aspects of the course as well.
- - The Library; I have created
a list of
recommended alternate textbooks for you to look up if you'd like to
see another way of presenting the ideas.
- - There is a copy of the "Student Learning Guide" for Fishbane et al.
on reserve at Swem Library.
- - I've made a list of other problems
that you can practice on.
Here are some WWW resources related to Physics that you might be interested
in.
- Information on last year's
Nobel Prize in Physics. This link (from the American Institute of
Physics) gives a very nice explanation of what the work involved; a
short description of last year's Chemistry prize is also included.
- There is a great directory of
physics-related WWW pages called TIPTOP (The Internet Pilot TO Physics)
which is well worth checking out.
- Interested in participating in physics research?
Read about the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program offered here at W&M. You can
read more about research in the physics department by reading our
graduate brochure (it is a 7.7 MB PDF file).
- The Nobel Prize in Physics
- Guess what - not everything in physics has been solved (this may not
be obvious from reading the textbook). To see a few of
the things that are puzzling physicists, look at the Open
Questions in Physics.
- Almost every Friday afternoon the physics department has
Colloquia in
which nationally and internationally prominent physicists discuss topics
in research. Undergraduates are welcome to attend!
- The Periodic Table is quite useful.
-
Fundamental Physical Constants (from NIST)
- List of
Physics Graduate Programs in the U.S. and Canada; this is useful for
planning for graduate school.
- Particle Data Group - everything
you wanted to know about elementary particles...
- `The
Skinny on...' - a fun site from the Discovery Channel, providing
answers to many perplexing ``why does...'' kind of questions.
- Physics 101 Home page
Physics 101
Dept. of Physics
College of William and Mary
armd@physics.wm.edu
last updated: Sept. 18 2000