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Central Forces on an Airtable (cfairhockey)
Visualizing Spherical Harmonics Using a Balloon (cfballoon)
Plotting Conic Sections (cfconics)
Effective Potential (cfeffpotential)
Guessing the Legendre Polynomial Expansion of a Function (cfguessleg)
Hydrogen Wave Function Probability Densities (cfhydrogenvis)
Legendre Polynomial Series Coefficients (cflegseries)
Trajectories in an Attractive Central Potential (cforbits)
Quantum Calculations on the Hydrogen Atom (cfqmatomgroup)
Probability of Finding an Electron Inside the Bohr Radius (cfqmbohrradius)
Particle Confined to a Ring (cfqmring)
Energy and Angular Momentum for a Particle on a Ring (cfqmringgroup)
Time Dependence for a Particle on a Ring (cfqmringgroup2)
Superposition States for a Particle on a Ring (cfqmringgroup3)
Expectation Values for a Particle on a Ring (cfqmringgroup4)
Visualization of the Spherical Harmonics (cfqmsphere)
Radial Wavefunctions (cfradialwavefunc)
Survivor Outer Space (A kinesthetic approach to introducing Center of Mass) (cfsurvivor)
Interpreting Effective Potential Plots (cfveffkin)
Velocity and Acceleration in Polar Coordinates (cfvpolar)
Linear Combinations of Spherical Harmonics (cfylmcombo)
Finding the Coefficients of a Spherical Harmonic Series (cfylmseries)
Charge density and delta functions -- SLAC Lightening Strike (coloradochargedelta)
Distinguishing Scalar and Vector Quantities Related to Electric Fields (coloradoclicker1)
Surface Current Density (coloradoclicker10)
Visualizing the Position Difference Vector 1 (Magnetic Vector Potential) (coloradoclicker11)
Direction of the Magnetic Vector Potential 1 (Infinitesimal Contribution) (coloradoclicker12)
Visualizing the Position Difference Vector 2 (Magnetic Field, Multiple Choice) (coloradoclicker13)
Direction of the Magnetic Vector Potential 2 (Arbitrary Wire) (coloradoclicker14)
Curl of the Magnetic Vector Potential (Cylindrical) (coloradoclicker15)
Curvilinear Unit Vectors and Integrals (coloradoclicker16)
Direction of the Magnetic Vector Potential 3 (Bent Wire) (coloradoclicker17)
Visualizing the Position Difference Vector 3 (Magnetic Field, Drawing) (coloradoclicker18)
Visualizing A Vector Integral (Biot-Savart Law) (coloradoclicker19)
Electric Flux Through A Cube (coloradoclicker2)
Magnetic Field and Vector Potential (coloradoclicker20)
Magnetic Field From A Small Line Segment (coloradoclicker21)
Stoke's Theorem Surface or Line Integral (coloradoclicker22)
Amperian Loop With Two Wires (coloradoclicker23)
Amperian Loop With Magnetic Field Defined Algebraically (coloradoclicker24)
Allowed Electric Fields and Potentials (coloradoclicker25)
Integrating the Magnetic Vector Potential (coloradoclicker26)
Allowed Magnetic Fields (coloradoclicker27)
Implications Of Gauss's Law (coloradoclicker3)
Choosing A Gaussian Surface For A Plane (coloradoclicker4)
Gauss's Law For A Line Of Charge (coloradoclicker5)
Visualizing Zero Divergence (coloradoclicker6)
Locating Divergence (coloradoclicker7)
Charge Density from Electric Field (coloradoclicker8)
Finding Total Charge (coloradoclicker9)
Conceptually understanding conductors (coloradoconductors)
Designing an Electric Field (coloradodesignefield)
Applying the Second Law (eeapply2ndlaw)
Two Interacting Black Body Objects (eebbobjects)
Making Big Money (eebigmoney)
Combining Probabilities (eecombineprob)
Comparing the System and Surroundings (eecompsyssurr)
Dice activity: students as molecules (eedicelab)
Temperature Change of Dissolving Salt (eedissolvesalt)
Demonstrating Extensivity in the Fairness Function (eefairextens)
Free expansion quiz (eefree_expansion)
Ice Calorimetry Lab (eeice)
Maximizing the Lagrangian (eemaxlagrange)
Melting Ice Lab (eemeltingice)
Entropy of a Microcanonical Ensemble (eemicrocanonens)
Name the Experiment (eename1)
Name the Experiment: Rubber Bands (eename2)
Name the Experiment: Maxwell Relations (eename3)
Name the Experiment: More Maxwell Relations (eename4)
Name the Experiment (eenametheexperiment)
Name the Experiment: Changing Entropy (eenametheexperiment2)
Name the Experiment: Maxwell Relations (eenametheexperiment3)
Name the Experiment: More Maxwell Relations (eenametheexperiment4)
Thermodynamic Pretest (eepretest)
Using $pV$ and $TS$ Plots (eepvplots)
Rubber Band Lab (eerubberband)
Analyzing a Simple Cycle Using a pV Curve (eesimplecycle)
Solve for the Fairness Function (eesolvefair)
Always, Sometimes, or Never True (eesomeneverall)
Thermodynamic Partials (eethermopartials)
Comparing Thermodynamic Properties (SWBQs) (eethermoterms)
Calculating the Internal Energy of a Diatomic Ideal Gas (eeudiatomicidealgas)
Is Work Done on or by the System? (eeworkexamples)
Visualizing Plane Waves (emplanewave)
Comparing Representations of Electromagnetic Waves (emplanewavecompare)
Visualizing Electromagnetic Plane Waves (emplanewaveem)
Deriving Change of Variables (inchangeofvars)
Constant Lines in the U-V Plane (inconstantuvlines)
Chain Rule Diagrams (SWBQ) FIXME Not an activity (incrdiagrams)
Cyclic Chain Rule (incycchainrule)
Easy and Hard Derivatives (ineasyhard)
Finding Conjugate Pairs (infindconjpairs)
Finding Intensive and Extensive Variables (infindintextvar)
Helmholtz Free Energy Expressions (SWBQs) (inhelmholtz)
The Isothermal Bulk Modulus (inisobulkmod)
Isowidth and Isoforce Stretchability (inisowidth)
Introducing Legendre Transforms (inlegendre)
Mixed Partial Differentials (inmixedpartdiff)
Naming Thermodynamic Variables (innamingvar)
Potential Energy of an Elastic System (inpotentiallab)
Quantifying Change (inquantchange)
Calculating a Total Differential (intotaldiff)
Upside Down Derivatives (inupdownderiv)
Evaluating Total Differentials: "Zapping with d" (inzapd)
Energy Diagram Analysis (osenergydiagramsim)
Guessing the Fourier Expansion of a Function (osfourierguess)
Fourier series: a piecewise periodic function (osfourierpiecewise)
LRC Lab: Harmonic Driver (osharmoniclrclab)
Products of harmonic functions and projections (osharmonicproj)
LRC Circuit: Impulse Driver (osimpulselrclab)
Initial conditions (osintialconditions)
Pendulum Lab (ospendulumlab)
Pendulum Period Calculations (Numerical Approach) (ospendulumworksheet)
Pendulum Period Calculation (Power Series) (ospendwspowerseries)
Three driving voltages (osthreesindrivers)
9 Atomic Wells (ppatoms)
Drawing Bound States (SWBQ) (ppbound)
Showing Two Vectors are Eigenstates in a 2-Well System (SWBQ) (ppeigenstateshow)
Energy Magnitudes for Thermal Processes (SWBQ) (ppenergywarm)
Identifying Periodic Systems (SWBQ) (ppidentify)
Journal Club Presentations (ppjournal)
Practice With a Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals (SWBQ) (pplcao)
The Optical and Acoustic Branches of an Infinite Diatomic Chain (ppoptacoubranches)
Coupled Oscillators and the Monoatomic Chain (P.S. Lab 1) (ppperiodiclab1)
The Diatomic Chain (P.S. Lab 2) (ppperiodiclab2)
The Periodic Finite Square Well Potential (P.S. Lab 3) (ppperiodiclab3)
Predicting the Phonon Number of an Oscillator (SWBQ) (ppphononnum)
Recalling Heat Capacity (SWBQ) (pprecheatcap)
Single Simple Harmonic Oscillator (SWBQ) (ppsingleosc)
Pendulum System: Single Pendulum (ppsinglepend)
Specific Heat of a Sample of Water (SWBQ) (ppspecheatwater)
Emulating Waves in a Periodic System (ppwaveemulate)
Bra-Ket Notation (prbraket)
Visualizing Complex Two Component Vectors (prcomplexarms)
Diagonalizing Matrices (prdiagmatrix)
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (preigenvectors)
Linear Algebra Review (prlinearalgebra)
Linear Transformations (prlineartrans)
Finding Matrix Elements (prmatrixelems)
Harmonic Oscillator Basis States (qmshobasis)
Time Evolution of Harmonic Oscillator States (qmtimesho)
System of Two Spin-1/2 Particles (qmtwospin)
Zeeman Perturbation Matrices in the Coupled Basis (qmzeemancoupled)
Right Triangles (SWBQ) (rf345)
Coriolis and Centrifugal Accelerations (rfacc)
Cosmic Rays (rfcosmic)
Doppler Effect (rfdoppler)
Earth Hockey (rfearthhockey)
East is not East (SWBQ) (rfeast)
Energy-Momentum in Different Frames (rfeframes)
Earth Hockey I (rfehockey1)
Earth Hockey II (rfehockey2)
Lorentz Transformations for Electromagnetism (rfemlorentz)
Energy, Mass, Momentum (SWBQ) (rfenergy)
Galilean Spacetime Diagrams (rfgalilean)
Inertial Frames (SWBQ) (rfinertial)
Length Contraction (rflength)
Linear Acceleration (rflinacc)
Mass is not Conserved (rfmass)
Rocket from the North Pole (rfnorth)
Paradoxes I (rfparadox1)
Paradoxes II (rfparadox2)
Turntable Hockey (rfthockey)
Trigonometry (SWBQ) (rftrig)
Merry-Go-Round (rfturn)
Writing the Completeness Relation for the 3-state Case (SWBQ) (sp3statecomprel)
Analyzing a Spin-1/2 Interferometer (spanalyzespinhalfint)
Analyzing a Spin-1 Interferometer (spanalyzespinoneint)
The Birthday Problem (spbirthday)
Representing Complex Values in Polar & Rectangular Form (SWBQ) (spcomplexval)
Computing Several Outer Products (SWBQ) (spcompoutprod)
Calculating 'crossed - polarizers' effect (spcrossedpolarizer)
Practice with Outer Product Matrix Properties (SWBQ) (spdensopprop)
{{page>wiki:headers:hheader}} Calculating $_{x}\langle -\vert+ \rangle_{x}$ (SWBQ) (spdownupxcompute)
Practice Finding Expectation Values (spexpecavg)
Dice Rolling Lab (spfairdice)
Probabilities for Different Stern Gerlach Analyzers (sphalfanalyzer)
Probabilities in the Z-direction for a Spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ System (sphalfprob)
The Lorentz Force Law (SWBQ) (splflaw)
Lorentz Force and Work Done on a Rectangular Loop (splorentzforce)
Neutrino Oscillations (spneutrinos)
Describing the Sample Oven in the Stern-Gerlach Experiment Mathematically (spoven)
Factoring out Overall Phases (SWBQ) (spoverallphase)
Representing Stern-Gerlach Experiment Probabilities (SWBQ) (spprobblanks)
Projection Operators (spprojectionoperators)
Quantum Time Evolution (spqmevolution)
Quantum Friend (spquanfriend)
Naming Quantum Operators (spquanop)
Components of the Stern Gerlach Experiment (spsgexperiment)
Spins Lab 1 (spspin1)
Spins Lab 2 (spspin2)
Spins Lab 3 (spspin3)
Spins Lab 4 (spspin4)
Guessing the Form of Spin Along x in Terms of z (SWBQ) (spspinguess)
Determining how a Magnetic Field Changes a Particle's State (spspinhalfbfield)
{{page>wiki:headers:hheader}} Finding Unknown States Leaving the Oven in a Spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ System (spspinhalfunknowns)
Probabilities for Different Spin-1 Stern Gerlach Analyzers (spspinoneanalyzer)
Finding the Unknown States Leaving the Oven in a Spin-1 System (spspinoneunknowns)
Matrix Representation of Spin Operators (spspinoperators)
Quantum Postulates (spspinpostulates)
Time-dependent Spin Vector (spspinvector)
Taking the Square of the Norm (SWBQ) (spsquarenorm)
Finding the Square of the Norm of a Complex Number in Polar Form (SWBQ) (spsquarenormpolar)
{{page>wiki:headers:hheader}} Computing the $S^{2}$ Operator for the Spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ System (SWBQ) (spssquaredmatrix)
Results of a State Collapse (SWBQ) (spstatecollapse)
State Formalism (spstateformalism)
Finding if $S_{x}, \; S_{y}, \; and \; S_{z}$ Commute (spsxyzcommute)
{{page>wiki:headers:hheader}} The $S_{z}$ Operator (SWBQ) (spszoperator)
Visualizing Complex Time Dependence for Spin 1/2 System (sptimedepcomplex)
Time Evolution Introduction (sptimeevolution)
Analyzing the Probabilities of Time-Evolved States (sptimeevolvestate)
Acceleration (vcaccel)
The Cone (vccone)
Curvilinear Coordinates (vccoords)
Change of Variables (vccov)
Divergence and Curl (vccurl)
The Cylinder (vccylinder)
Partial Derivatives (vcderivs)
Double Integrals (vcdouble)
Finding dr-vector (vcdr)
The Grid (vcgrid)
The Hill (vchill)
Climbing a Hill (vchillgrad)
Potential Functions (vcmmm)
The Fishing Net (vcnet)
Which Way is North? (vcnorth)
Lines and Planes (vcplanes)
The Pretzel (vcpretzel)
Stokes' Theorem (vcstokes)
The Tetrahedron (vctetra)
The Valley (vcvalley)
The Wire (vcwire)
Acting out the Gradient (vfactinggrad)
Ampère's Law (vfampere)
Magnetic Vector Potential Due to a Spinning Charged Ring (vfaring)
Curvilinear Basis Vectors (vfbasisvectors)
Magnetic Field Continuity Across a Boundary (vfbbound)
Magnetic Field Due to a Spinning Ring of Charge (vfbring)
Acting Out Charge Densities (vfchargedensity)
Conductors (vfconductors)
Visualizing Curl (vfcurlvis)
Acting Out Current Density (vfcurrentdensity)
Surface and Volume Elements in Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates (vfdadvcurvi)
Visualizing Divergence (vfdivergence)
Drawing Electric Field Vectors (vfdrawfield)
Drawing Equipotential Surfaces (vfdrawquadrupole)
Vector Differential (vfdrvectorcurvi)
Electric Field Continuity Across a Boundary (vfebound)
Electrostatic Energy of Discrete Charges (vfemenergy)
Electric Field Due to a Ring of Charge (vfering)
Calculation of Flux (vffluxcalculation)
The Concept of Flux (vffluxconcept)
Visualizing Electric Flux (vffluxem)
Gauss's Law (vfgauss)
Visualizing Gradient (vfgradient)
Navigating a Hill (vfhillnav)
Relaxation Technique for Solving Laplace's Equation (vflaplacerelax)
Getting Started with Maple (vfmaplestarted)
Finding Potentials from Fields - The Murder Mystery Method (vfmurdermm)
Approximating Functions with Power Series (vfpowerapprox)
Calculating Coefficients for a Power Series (vfpowerseriescoeff)
Electrostatic Potential Due to a Point Charge (SWBQ) (vfptcharge)
The Distance Between Two Points - Star Trek (vfstartrek)
Dot Product Revew (SWBQ) (vfswbqdot)
Theta Functions (vfthetafunc)
Total Charge (vftotalcharge)
Concept Map: VEUF (vfveuf)
Visualizing Electrostatic Potentials (vfvisv)
Potential Due to a Pair of Charges - Part 2 (vfvpoints)
Potential Due to a Pair of Charges - Part 1 (vfvpoints2)
Electrostatic Potential Due to a Ring (vfvring)
Wave Propagation in a Coaxial Cable (wvcoaxlab)
Solving the Energy Eigenvalue Equation for the Finite Well (wvfinitewell)
Boundary conditions and Fourier superposition (wvfourier)
Time Evolution of a Gaussian Wave Packet (wvgausswavepacket)
Operators and Functions (wvoperatorfunc)
Creating a Pressure-like wave in a Coaxial Cable (wvpressurewave)
Pressure Wave Simulation (wvpressurewavesim)
A Physical Model for Quantum Measurements (wvqmmeasurement)
Visualizing Reflected and Transmitted Waves (wvreftrananim)
Dispersion Relation for Waves on a String (wvstringwaves)
Time Evolution of Infinite Well Wave Functions (wvtimeinfwell)
Energy Density of Waves on a String (wvwaveenergy)
Initial Conditions (wvwaveinitialcond)