resources

Special Relativity

• Relativity - The Special and General Theory - Einstein's 1916 book, online at Project Gutenberg
• wikipedia
  • special relativity
  • spacetime
  • Lorentz transform
  • Velocity-addition formula
  • Minkowski space
  • Minkowski diagram
  • four-vector
• wikibooks - Special Relativity (both intro & advanced)
• Kahn Academy
• Special Relativity by Philip Harris | local copy
• Space Time Diagrams - Turley
• A Slower Speed of Light (game)
• Siklos - special relativity lecture notes | local copy
• Gleeson - uniform acceleration | local copy

Waves & Fourier stuff

• wikipedia Fourier Series
• wikipedia Fourier Transform
• thefouriertransform.com

3D Schrodinger

• effective potential
• laplacian in spherical coords
• spherical harmonics
• Solving Schrödinger's equation for the hydrogen atom | local copy
• orbitals & periodic table
• orbital viewer | local copy
• wikipedia: atomic orbital - notice particularly the "complex orbitals" vs "real orbitals" distinction

interpretation of quantum

• Bell's Inequality
• ... version with Mermin's boxes
• Interpretations
• collapse? : the Measurement Problem
• delayed choice
• least action - Feynman's path integral formaulation
• Quantum Bayesianism (Mermin likes it; pretty consistent with Copenhagen)
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Other

• back of the envelope problems
• fundamental forces and particles
• powers of 10
• The Ring of Truth 2 - change
• Feynman Lectures on Physics
• openstax - college physics - online textbook
• openstax - university physics vol 3 - online textbook including relativity & quantum with calculus

general info

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