Physics 103: Resources

Science for Future Physicians

SFFP full report

Euclid's Elements

Galileo's Lectures on Dante's Inferno

Galileo's Discovery of Scaling Laws, Am. J. Phys. 70 (2002), 575.

A Renaissance application of trigonometry.

A nice look at the vanishing point.

Snell's Law applet

Minimum Deviation applet

A Rainbow applet

Thin Lens applet

Optical Rail applet

A nice site on geometrical optics.

How Simple Harmonic motion is related to circular motion.

Geoffrey West's KITP talk on the fractal model of the vascular system