PHYSICS 201: MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR SCIENTISTS, SPRING 2002
Tim Gfroerer, Davidson College
Announcements and Class Demonstrations
*NOTE: Attendance at all physics seminars is strongly encouraged.
| Date Posted | Announcement or Demonstration |
| 1/17/02 |
Seminar on Thursday, 1/24 at 4:00: Dr. Christina Lacey from the University of South Carolina will speak on Radio Investigation of Supernova Remnants in the Inner Galaxy at 74MHz. |
| 1/18/02 | Link to Taylor Series Applet |
| 1/25/02 | Pendulum Approximations Applet. Note: this doesn't want to load anymore. (?) |
| 2/6/02 | Interested in the 3-2 engineering program? The Washington University representative will be here on Wednesday, February 13th to discuss this option with Davidson students. We'll meet for lunch at 12:30 and the representative will be available for individual meetings with students in the afternoon. |
| 2/8/02 | Link to Electromagnetic Wave Applet |
| 2/11/02 | Link to AC Circuit Applet |
| 2/13/02 | Link to Quantum Mechanics Physlet |
| 2/18/02 |
Link to Euler's Angles Applet |
| 2/19/02 | Thinking about majoring in physics? Come to the career services program Major Decisions: Physics on Monday, 2/25 at 4pm in Dana 146. |
| 2/20/02 | Link to Optics Physlet |
| 2/21/02 | Seminar on Tuesday, 2/26 at 4:00: Mr. Ted Greene will speak on Majoring in physics: the route to fame, fortune, and fun. |
| 2/22/02 | Download a Mathematica notebook: population by age or population by matrix. Application: war. |
| 3/1/02 | Link to Eigenvalue/Eigenvector Quiz and Explorer |
| 3/12/02 |
Physicist Paul Davies will be speaking on "The origin of the
universe" at Queens College in Charlotte on Thursday, 3/21 at 7pm. He
has written several very popular physics books, including The Mind of God
and How to Build a Time Machine. I plan to attend this lecture, and
hope to carpool with whoever is interested. Note that this lecture follows a
4pm Physics Seminar
here at Davidson on "Making nanostructures with highly charged
ions" by Laura Ratliff. Please email me (tigfroerer@davidson.edu) if you are interested in going to the Davies lecture. Also, you need to register (seating is limited) by this Thursday (3/14): send an email message to marchiop@queens.edu. |
| 3/15/02 | Link to Mechanical Eigenapplications applet |
| 3/19/02 | Steve Martin's hilarious interpretation of an imagined meeting between Einstein and Picasso: Picasso at the Lapin Agile: 3/20, 3/21, and 3/23 @ 8pm and 3/24 @ 2pm in the Duke Performance Hall. Panel Discussion (including me!) on The System of Art and the Beauty of Science: 3/20 @ 4:30pm in the C. Shaw Smith room. |
| 3/20/02 | Download CO2 Mathematica notebook. |
| 3/28/02 | Download Review #2 from last year. Get solutions here. |
| 4/12/02 | Link to Coaxial Cable Physlet. |
| 4/17/02 | Physlets: Harmonic synthesizer and Fourier series. |
| 4/24/02 | Download Review #3 from last year. Get solutions here. |
| 5/6/02 | Web report for diffraction and spatial filtering in Intermediate Lab |