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  (in construction)
sciences behind the headlines based on the book:
Physics for future presidents by Richard A. Muller
SCI 230       Dr. Vlankar

source:
http://xkcd.com/556/
  
final : Saturday, May 12 - 11AM to 1PM ?????
book= Physics and Technology for Future Presidents
Richard A. Muller, Princeton University Press 2010
LINKS:                                                                                                                                                                     
         CONVERSIONon line     stopwatch on-line   CALCULATOR      search engine Math/Sciences    AlgebraI   EMAIL ME          
                                                           show me the physics                                                           Physics tutorial     sparknotes   The book in a video by Rich Muller
in newssept 2011: China's space program   molten salts to store solar energy   
  China dirty secret. ashes produced by coal power plants =pollution in china + malformation of newborn =  video
gamers    Our Universe: pictures   amazing image of the Earth   solar flare, worry in Chilie 
3% skin cancer increase when the ozone layer decreases by 1% (this year 1.2%)
   Russians are planning trip to the Moon     Toxins in a high school        whos more pro-sciences ? democrats/republicans         In 10 years skin cancers double. UV protection is now required by law.
HST image     virtual telescope 130m in Chile   drones for non military purpose (see realplayer) ASBESTOS TRIAL in ITALY     LHC boosts its energy    robotic bees    thermal imaging : butterfly
BIOFUEL is the future ?    biofuel:video    controversy over dangerous artifical virus  transistor on an atom   Hershel will go down soon   price of gas in france : 1.62 euros per liter = record (Iran, Nigeria)
milky way videos  NASA picture of the day    Einstein was right after all   scale in the Universe   3D printer and
Prosthetic leg   video  robot cheetah bullet train in CA    large solar flare  fukushima 4
controlling mini drones with ipad   medical device made of toys   project glass google   car or helicopter  vatican  North Korea failed satellite   IBM computer and cancer   Bering project
Himalayas ice thickening    Life on Mars after all ?    Help Nasa with nest mission to Mars    
  
LECTURE NOTES  (based on the book)                                        applets                                                                                                       
CHAPTER1 :  ENERGY, POWER,
 forces over distance / time

lecture note chapter 1
compute your energy needs
calories counter per meal
compute energy expenditure per sport
diet versus exercice

applets conservation of energy
another good applet
force-work applet
the clay experiment
conservation of energy
interesting website
new electric cars:  car1   car2   car3   car4
CHAPTER2: HEAT, TEMPERATURE
 laws of thermodynamics

lecture note chapter 2
more on atmosphere
more on pressure in fluids
from exploration physical sciences:
ideal gas, phases of matter,
java : state of matter
exploration of physics : heat flow
brownian motion
car engines
ozone formation
ozone depletion
CHAPTER3: GRAVITY, NEWTON's
LAWs, conservation of momentums

lecture note chapter 3
inertia:



see exploration of physical .. Galileo and race
Galileo , different mass, same acceleration   that's why
planetary motion  (launch a satellite. if curvature greater earth's = orbit)
projectile motion above Paris
the monkey
projectile motion on different planets
play with this game newton's second law + gravity
conservation of momentum, collision
compton effect, conservation of momentun
what happens in space if you don't go by newton's rules
circular motion game

commercial space station: a hotel in space
here for more
zero G
commercial space travel. Richard Branson

CHAPTER4: RADIOACTIVITY,
nuclear physics, the end of determinism


lecture note chapter 4
cloud chamber
discovery of radioactivity
geiger counter
the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
bhopal disaster
bhopal (1984)
Jose Pedilla/dirty bomb
x-rays tooth
shoe fitting x-ray device    youtube
body scan
3 mile island accident
cosmic rays to see inside pyramids    probe mayan pyramids
interesting website

EM spectrum

notes anout nuclear medecine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PUjRHEPLqk&feature=player_embedded
(how to kill with polonium 210, the sad case of Alexander  litvinenko  )
Fukushima explanations
more on nuclear physics

VIDEO TO WATCH :
disaster in Japan explained. Excellent

another video about nuclear power by Glenn Beck


CHAPTER5: chain reactions,
BOMBS, nuclear reactor


lecture note chapter 4
Indiana jones   
equivalent of TNT for atomic bomb or nuclear bomb.
from 15kt to 50 Mt

laser initial fusion see youtube video go to 12:40 for cartoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3F42s_MsP4

fusion vs fission
1952 = first H-bomb
OLD (optional):
waves, light,
invisible light,
quantum physics intro

lecture note waves

lecture note music,standing waves

lecture note light, invisible light
EM spectrum1
EM spectrum2

lecture notes: quantum physics

applications in quantum physics

other lecture notes quantum
from astronomy book:
cosmic perspective, 6th edition
bennett , Pearson

list of particles
what is a wave
water waves are circular
wavditiones: amplitude and frequency
creating a wave from a source of energy (transverse)
creating longitudinal wave
transverse and longitudinal waves
S and P waves from earthquakes
demonstration: speed depends on the tension play with the applet
reflecting wave 1 pulse, 1 end
reflecting wave - depends on boundary condition more in depth here
speed of wave decreases in a different medium

 doppler effect/shockwave     doppler effect with light   doppler effect
doppler effect and sonic boom
doppler video funny video

reflection, refraction, diffraction

adding waves
beats  beats
resonnance mountain dew

2-slits interference
interference pattern 2 slots
video standing waves 5:07
light bends toward slow medium
refraction in a bath tub


lenses understand      refractive telescope
converging lens

download audacity and play with it
play piano
video waves scupltures
funny youtube video about a weird problem about refraction
sonoluminescence
explore the EM spectrum
video EM waves

more applets
images
more about sound and music

applet lenses    formation image   formula
  telescope applet
human eyes
human eyes applet EXCELLENT

radioisotopes used in medical sciences
Modern Physics:relativity

special relativity part1
special relativity part 2 (problems)
special relativity part3 (E=mc2)
general relativity - intro
brownian motion
photoelectric effect
animation time dilation
special relativity video advanced
movie about time dilation and length contraction
David Frisch and James SMith
plane and lasers