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* A wiki written for students by a physics expert [http://p3server.pa.msu.edu/coursewiki/doku.php?id=183_notes MSU Physics Wiki]
* A wiki written for students by a physics expert [http://p3server.pa.msu.edu/coursewiki/doku.php?id=183_notes MSU Physics Wiki]
* A wiki book on modern physics [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Modern_Physics Modern Physics Wiki]
* A wiki book on modern physics [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Modern_Physics Modern Physics Wiki]
* A collection of 26 volumes of lecture notes by Prof. Wheeler of Reed College [https://rdc.reed.edu/c/wheeler/home/]
* The MIT open courseware for intro physics [http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-8-002-a-wikitextbook-for-introductory-mechanics-fall-2009/index.htm MITOCW Wiki]
* The MIT open courseware for intro physics [http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-8-002-a-wikitextbook-for-introductory-mechanics-fall-2009/index.htm MITOCW Wiki]
* An online concept map of intro physics [http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html HyperPhysics]
* An online concept map of intro physics [http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html HyperPhysics]
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* A page to keep track of all the physics [[Constants]]
* A page to keep track of all the physics [[Constants]]
* A listing of [[Notable Scientist]] with links to their individual pages  
* A listing of [[Notable Scientist]] with links to their individual pages  
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===Week 7===
===Week 7===
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====Energy Principle====
====Identifying Forces====
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*[[Energy of a Single Particle]]
*[[Kinetic Energy]]
*[[Kinetic Energy]]
*[[Work/Energy]]
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*[[The Energy Principle]]
*[[The Energy Principle]]
*[[Conservation of Energy]]
*[[Conservation of Energy]]
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*[[The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution]]
*[[The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution]]
*[[Air Resistance]]
*[[Air Resistance]]
*[[The Third Law of Thermodynamics]]
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*[[Predicting the Position of a Rotating System]]
*[[Predicting the Position of a Rotating System]]
*[[The Moments of Inertia]]
*[[The Moments of Inertia]]
*[[Parallel axis theorem]]
*[[Right Hand Rule]]
*[[Right Hand Rule]]
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*[[Electric Field]]
*[[Electric Field]]
*[[Electric Field and Electric Potential]]
*[[Electric Field and Electric Potential]]
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====Electric force====
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====Dipoles====
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*[[Electric Potential]]
*[[Electric Potential]]
*[[Path Independence of Electric Potential]]
*[[Path Independence of Electric Potential]]
*[[Potential Difference Path Independence, claimed by Aditya Mohile]]  
*[[Potential Difference Path Independence]]  
*[[Potential Difference in a Uniform Field]]
*[[Potential Difference in a Uniform Field]]
*[[Potential Difference of Point Charge in a Non-Uniform Field]]
*[[Potential Difference of Point Charge in a Non-Uniform Field]]
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====Sign of a potential difference====
====Sign of a potential difference====
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====Moving charges, electron current, and conventional current====
====Moving charges, electron current, and conventional current====
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*[[Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire]]
*[[Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire]]
*[[Magnetic Field of a Short Straight Wire]]
*[[Magnetic Field of a Curved Wire]]
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===Week 8===
===Week 8===
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====Circuitry Basics====
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*[[Understanding Fundamentals of Current, Voltage, and Resistance]]
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====Steady state current====
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====Kirchoff's Laws====
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*[[Kirchoff's Laws]]
*[[Loop Rule]]
*[[Node Rule]]
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====Electric fields and energy in circuits====
====Electric fields and energy in circuits====
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*[[Hall Effect]]
*[[Hall Effect]]
<h1><strong>Alayna Baker Spring 2020</strong></h1>
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[[File:Hall Effect 2.jpg]]
*[[Right-Hand Rule]]
*[[Right-Hand Rule]]
*[[Motional Emf]]
*[[Motional Emf]]
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*[[Magnetic Torque]]
*[[Magnetic Torque]]
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====Motional EMF====
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<h1><strong>Adeline Boswell Fall 2019</strong></h1>
[[File:Motional EMF Example.jpg]]
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====Magnetic force====
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====Classical Physics====
====Classical Physics====
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*[[Classical Physics]]
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[[Category:Which Category did you place this in?]]
 
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====Special Relativity====
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*[[Frame of Reference]]
*[[Frame of Reference]]
*[[Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity]]
*[[Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity]]
*[[Time Dilation]]
*[[Time Dilation]]
*[[Twin Paradox]]
*[[Lorentz Transformations]]
*[[Relativistic Doppler Effect]]
*[[Einstein's Theory of General Relativity]]
*[[Einstein's Theory of General Relativity]]
*[[Albert A. Micheleson & Edward W. Morley]]
*[[Albert A. Micheleson & Edward W. Morley]]
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===Week 4===
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====Photons====
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*[[Spontaneous Photon Emission]]
*[[Spontaneous Photon Emission]]
*[[Light Scattering: Why is the Sky Blue]]
*[[Light Scattering]]
*[[Lasers]]
*[[Lasers]]
*[[Electronic Energy Levels and Photons]]
*[[Electronic Energy Levels and Photons]]
*[[Quantum Properties of Light]]
*[[Quantum Properties of Light]]
*[[The Photoelectric Effect]]
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===Week 4===
===Weeks 5 and 6===
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====Matter Waves====
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*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]
*[[Particle in a 1-Dimensional box]]
*[[Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle]]
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===Week 5===
===Week 7===
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====Wave Mechanics====
====Wave Mechanics====
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*[[Mechanical Waves]]
*[[Mechanical Waves]]
*[[Transverse and Longitudinal Waves]]
*[[Transverse and Longitudinal Waves]]
*[[Fourier Series and Transform]]
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===Week 6===
===Week 8===
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====Schrödinger Equation====
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*[[The Born Rule]]
*[[Solution for a Single Free Particle]]
*[[Solution for a Single Particle in an Infinite Quantum Well - Darin]]
*[[Solution for a Single Particle in a Semi-Infinite Quantum Well]]
*[[Quantum Harmonic Oscillator]]
*[[Solution for Simple Harmonic Oscillator]]
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===Week 9===
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====Quantum Mechanics====
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*[[Quantum Tunneling through Potential Barriers]]
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====The Hydrogen Atom====
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*[[Quantum Theory]]
*[[Atomic Theory]]
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====Rutherford-Bohr Model====
====Rutherford-Bohr Model====
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===Week 11===
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====The Hydrogen Atom====
====Many-Electron Atoms====
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*[[Quantum Theory]]
*[[Quantum Theory]]
*[[Atomic Theory]]
*[[Atomic Theory]]
*[[Pauli exclusion principle]]
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===Week 12===
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====Many-Electron Atoms====
====The Nucleus====
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*[[Nucleus]]
*[[Atomic Theory]]
*[[Pauli exclusion principle]]
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===Week 13===
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====Molecules====
====Molecules====
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*[[Covalent Bonds]]
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===Week 14===
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====Statistical Physics====
====Statistical Physics====
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===Week 15===
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====Condensed Matter Physics====
====Statistical Physics====
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===Additional Topics===
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====The Nucleus====
====Thermodynamics====
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*[[Maxwell Relations]]
*[[Brownian Motion]]
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====Nuclear Physics====
====Nuclear Physics====
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*[[Nuclear Fission]]
*[[Nuclear Fission]]
*[[Nuclear Energy from Fission and Fusion]]
*[[Nuclear Energy from Fission and Fusion]]
*[[Radioactive Decay Processes]]
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====Particle Physics====
====Particle Physics====
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*[[String Theory]]
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====Solid-State/Condensed Matter Physics====
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*[[Crystalline Structures]]
*[[Electric-Band Structure]]
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Week 3

Analytic Prediction with a Constant Force

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Week 5

Properties of Matter

Week 6

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Different Models of a System

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Week 12

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Week 13

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Week 14

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Week 15

Introduction to Quantum Concepts

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Potential energy

Electric potential

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Path independence and round trip potential

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Electric field and potential in an insulator

Moving charges in a magnetic field

Biot-Savart Law

Moving charges, electron current, and conventional current

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Magnetic field of a wire

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Magnetic field of a Charged Disk

Magnetic dipoles

Atomic structure of magnets

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Circuitry Basics

Steady state current

Kirchoff's Laws

Electric fields and energy in circuits

Macroscopic analysis of circuits

Week 9

Electric field and potential in circuits with capacitors

Magnetic forces on charges and currents

Electric and magnetic forces

Velocity selector

Week 10

Hall Effect

Magnetic force

Magnetic torque

Week 12

Gauss's Law

Ampere's Law

Week 13

Semiconductors

Faraday's Law

Maxwell's equations

Week 14

Circuits revisited

Inductors

Week 15

Electromagnetic Radiation

Sparks in the air

Superconductors

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Week 1

Classical Physics

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Special Relativity and the Lorentz Transformation

Week 4

Photons and the Photoelectric Effect

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Matter Waves and Wave-Particle Duality

Week 7

Wave Mechanics

Week 8

Schrödinger Equation

Week 9

Quantum Mechanics

The Hydrogen Atom

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Rutherford-Bohr Model

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Many-Electron Atoms

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Molecules

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