Modern Physics Links

There exists colossal amount of useful information that are closely related to the 104E/3 modern physics course in the www. To assist student to tap this resources more efficiently, I have selected some useful links as listed below. Student are encouraged to browse these sites to gain some `feel' on how the same subject is tough in other parts of the world. Also listed in the following links are some resources related to the history of modern physics, excellent physicist figures that we encounter in the modern physics course, as well as some `modern physic for dummies'- type websites that explain modern physics in a non-technical manner.

Special relativity and Einstein

	Exploring flight near the speed of light! Click here to understand Einstein's theory of Special Relativity intuitively through the medium of computer-synthesised images
	Wanna see more photos of the celebrated Einstein? Click here. If you are interested in the life story of Einstein, click here to read about the photo essay on his life.
	Special Relativity and Photography. A gallery of computer images showing the effects of Special Relativity when taking photographs of objects moving at speeds close to the speed of light. Modern Physics and SR lecture notes by others
	Click here for complete sets of Lecture Notes on the Web by Michael Fowler, the University of Virginia.
	Take a look at how people in MIT conduct their modern physics course. Click here.
	Click here for Introduction to modern physics lectures by Dr. Christina Keller, University of South Dakota. The lecture notes are brief and concise. You could find some interesting computer simulations (time dilation and photoelectricity etc.) too.
	Click here for modern physics lectures by Prof. Steve Pollock, University of Colorado at Boulder, US. The lecture notes are well explained and complete. However some of the materials covered may not be coincide with our syllabus.

Non-technical modern physics resource,

Historical development of modern physics and

renown physicists

	Physics 2000. A very interesting but non-techinical website meant to explain physics (in particular, modern physics concepts that we learn in the 104E/3 course). If you wish to understand some essential modern physics without cracking your head too heavily, visit this figure intensive and formula-free site to gain some non-technical feel of what the 104E/3 lectures is about.
	Click here History of Physics & Allied Fields hosted by AIP Center for History of Physics Web site. You could find almost everything about the development of physics history in this page. In particular you could find out more about how the modern physics gets developed from classical physics in the turn of the 20th century.
	WERNER HEISENBERG, one of the greatest but controversial physicists of the twentieth century. He is best known as a founder of quantum mechanics, the new physics of the atomic world, and especially for the uncertainty principle in quantum theory. Click here.
	Prince de Broglie, who revolutionisse our understanding of the physical world at the most fundamental level by proposing that particles have wave attibutes.
	Galileo project, a hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time.
	Eric Weisstein's world of bibliography contains an almost complete list of brief bibliography of renown scientist along with their important scientific works. You can search for any physics figures we encountered in the 104E/3 modern physics course by alphabetical order. One can also gain some insight into the significance of their scientific contributions by clicking on the hypertexts.
	Studio-Based Modern Physics Project. Computer simulation on stuffs like relativistic kinematics/dynamics, diffraction, quantisation of energy levels etc. could be found here. May provide a helpful visual aid to the understanding of the physics that you find it difficult to comprehend conceptually.