Internet Resources for Sound and Light

1. Sound and Light Curricula and General Physics
   • HyperPhysics by C. R. Neve at Georgia State University. This site employs concept maps to present topics in physics.
   • Patterns in Nature syllabus - from Arizona State University.
   • Making Waves: An online guide to sound and electromagnetic radiation. Created by high school physics students at St. MaryŐs H.S. in Manhasset NY.
   • Virtual Physics Laboratory mirror of Fu-Kwun Hwang's Personal Home Page .
   • Physics Simulations by B.Surendranath Reddy.
   • Physics Applets from lectures on line.
   • The Physics Classroom a high school physics tutorial hosted by StudyWorks Online!
   • Physics 20 at the University of Saskatchewan. The course has foundation units in the physics of everyday things, waves and light, along with optional units in light and sound.
   • Paul Hewitt's links for his sound and light chapters in Conceptual Physics.
   • Optics, Waves, Sound from the American Physicsal Society.
2. Oscillations and Vibrations
   • Waves and Oscillations from the Department of Mathmetatics - University of Glascow.
   • Waves and Vibrations an on-line Physics Textbook.
   • Oscillations of bridges from the Brantacam home page.
   • Nacoma Narrows Bridge Failure from the Unversity of Bristol Applied Engineering Mathematics Department.
   • Lissajous figures from B. Surendranath Reddy's General Physics Java Applets menu.
   • Interactive Lissajous figures from the Famous Curves Applet Index from the Mathematics Department at St. Andrews of of Scotland.
3. General Properties of Waves
   • Acoustics and Vibration Animations by Dr. Dan Russell of Kettering University in Flint, Michigan.
   • Various interactive wave demonstrations from Zona Land.
   • Waves From the online Learn Physics Today Tutorial at Colegio Franklin D. Roosevelt in Lima, Peru. A ThinkQuest site.
   • Polarization Interactive applets from Molecular Expressions.
   • Single slit diffractionA java applet showing single slit diffraction. From Sergey Kiselev and Tanya Yanovsky-Kiselev
4. Standing Waves
   • Strings, Standing Waves and HarmonicsFrom the University of New South Wales.
   • A Java applet showing the formation of longitudinal standing waves From the home page of Walter Fendt
   • Physics in Action Java Animations from the home page of Xing Min (Sherman) Wang.
   • Standing Waves from Physics 2000 at the University of Colorado.
   • Standing Waves in musical instruments by Catherine Schmidt-Jones.
   • Standing Waves from the Physics Classroom.
5. Sound
   • Table of contents for Art Ludwig's Sound Page.
   • The Physics of Sound from ThinkQuest.
   • Concise and advanced summary of the properties of sound waves by Dr. James B. Calvert.
   • Interactive Sound Waves from NASA's Glenn Research Center.
   • The Doppler Effect from Walter Fendt.
   • Sound waves from the liguistics department at the University of Manitoba.
   • Nature of Sound Waves from the Physics Classroom.
   • Doppler shift for a moving point source.
6. Hearing
   • The Physics of Hearing from College Physics for Students of Biology and Chemistry by Kenneth Koehler.
   • The Incredible Sense of Hearing from the Pathology Department at Tulane University.
   • Neuroscience for Kids - The Ear by Eric Chudler of the University of Washington.
   • The Virtual Tour of the Ear by Perry Hanavan at Augustana College in Souix Falls SD.
   • Hearing Loss from MedlinePlus of the National Institue of Health.
   • The Soundry at ThinkQuest.
7. Complex Waveforms
   • Complex waveforms from the Basic Physics of Sound course at the University of Indiana.
   • Fourier Synthesis of Periodic Waves from Tom Huber of Gustavus Adolphus College.
   • Signals and their characteristics from doctronics.
   • Buiding periodic waves with Fourier Synthesis.
8. Musical Instruments
   • Music and Sound Waves by Art Ludwig.
   • Understanding Harmonics by Scott Lehman at Harmony Central.
   • Physics of brasses The web site of Mr. Nicholas Drozdoff is dedicated to the promotion of the understanding of the physics of brasses.
   • The Musical Instrument Encyclopedia from the University of Michigan.
   • Musical AcousticsThe Musical Acoustics Group at the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales has an outstanding site with information on guitars, flutes, clarinets and violins.
9. General Properties of Light
   • Speed of Light from Mike Guidry.
   • Photon2 Tour of Optics on the Web from the New Engleand Board of Higher Education.
   • Excite an atom with SCITech's hands-on atom.
   • Color Science from Dan Burton at the Stephen F. Austin State University Department of Physics.
   • Light and Optics Readings in Patterns in Nature - from Arizona State University.
   • Optics an on-line Physics Textbook.
   • Brief History of Optics from Web Science Resources.
   • Wave Optics An interactive tutorial from the Optics Department at the University of Rochester.
10. The Eye
    • Human Vision from the Hessi challange of NASA.
    • Ophthalmic Optics for Beginners from the Baudartum Communications Corporation.
    • The Eye and Human Vision from What is Physics Good for?.
    • The Eye from Neuroscience for Kids.
    • How we see from the Classic Collection of the Activities Exchange.
11. Wave Optics
    • An applet showing the interference of waves, written by Serge G. Vtorov.
    • Polarization of Light in Nature and Technology.
    • Thin Film Interference from the Boston University Phys 106 course.
    • Rayleigh Scattering from Hyperphysics.
    • Mie scattering from the Department of Atmospheric Science at the University of Illinois.
    • Diffraction from Molecular Expressions.
    • X-ray diffraction from the University of Liverpool.
12. Geometrical Optics
    • Thin Lens Java applet written by Ku_Kwun Hwang.
    • A colorful java applet for thin converging lenses from Sergey Kiselev and Tanya Yanovsky-Kiselev.
    • Image formation for a concave lens An applet by Sadahisa Kamikawa.
    • Optical Fibers From the Australian Photonics CRC.
    • Image formation by a Diverging Mirror from Sergey Kiselev and Tanya Yanovsky-Kiselev.
13. Color
    • Color Science from Steven F. Austin University.
    • Color and Vision from the Physics Classroom, a High School Physics Tutorial from Glenbrook South High School.
    • Color Space JAVA applets from Greg Thoenen.
    • Color Theory Tutrial by Worqx with a design emphasis.
    • Make a Splash with Color from the Tech Museum of Innovation.
14. Atmospheric Optical Phenomena
    • Rainbows A UNIDATA program on rainbows by Beverly Lynds of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
    • Atmospheric Optics ffrom the University of Illinois Department of Atmospheric Sciences.
    • Rainbows A java applet by Fu_Kwun Hwang.
    • Green Flashes An introduction by Andrew T. Young.
    • Atmospheric Ice Halos from Bob Fosbury.
    • Atmospheric Phenomena from the German Halo Workgroup.
15. Communications
    • The Media History Project Includes information on electrical media, mass media and digital media.
    • Verizon Learning Center articles on a broad range of telecommuncations topics.
    • A Century of Radio by the California Historical Radio Society.
    • Marconi and 100 years of Radio by CISI.
    • The Federal Communications CommissionŐs Home page.
    • How radio and wireless works from the Radio Design Group.
    • The MZTV Museum of Television .
    • How a cell phone works from How Stuff Works.
    • Amplitude Modulation and Demodulation from Scots Guide
16. Recording Technologies
    • Vintage Audio History from the Video Interchange.
    • The History of Sound Recording Technology maintained by David Morton.
    • Chris' Sound Recording History
    • Recording Technology History notes by Steve Schoenherr.
    • Campus Downloading
    • Introduction to High Capacity Media from DPTS.
17. Electronics
    • History of the transistor
    • Brief History of the transistor from PBS
    • History of Personal Computers Chronology of Events by Ken Polsson.
    • The John Vincent Atanasoff Virtual Archive at Iowa State University.
    • The History of Computing maintained by J. A. N. Lee of the IEEE.
    • Semiconductor Applet Services at the University of Buffalo.
    • The Intel Museum On-line Exhibits
    • Scots Guide to Electronics Topics for students who would like to learn some basic electronics
18. Lasers
    • Lasers and Laser Systems From SRI Interantional.
    • About Lasers From the Shore Laser Center with a link to detailed information about medical uses of lasers.
    • Invention of the laser at Bell Laboratories.
    • Technical history of the laser
    • Fiber Optic Technolgyby David R. Goff
    • Principles and Applications of Lasers
    • The Laser Adventure by Rami Arieli