It's All Physical

var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-23775364-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

[itsphysics]

Why coffee-rings have dark, sharp edges... a long standing problem solved! This is what physics is all about!

[itsphysics]

American artist Jackson Pollock utilized an (intuitive?) understanding of the laws of fluid mechanics to create controlled jets of liquid which he used in creating his paintings.

[itsphysics]

The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) records lectures in Basic Physics and pre-PhD level High Energy Physics, Mathematics, Earth System Physics and Condensed Matter Physics and publishes these lectures on the web.

High Energy Physics topics:

Quantum Electrodynamics

Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

Lie Groups and Lie Algebras

Introduction to Particle Physics

General Relativity

Quantum Field Theory

The Standard Model

Susy Field Theory

Condensed Matter Physics topics:

Symmetries, Electron Bands and Phonons

Advanced Quantum Mechanics

Magnetism

Biological Physics

Mathematical Techniques

Statistical Mechanics

Advanced Statistical Mechanics

Many-Body Physics

Selected Topics in CMP

Electronic Structure

Superconductivity

Earth System Physics, Mathematics and Basic Physics are also available. It amounts to 7561 hours of Lectures!

[itsphysics]

New Journal of Physics is an open-access journal for physics. They publish across the whole of physics, encompassing pure, applied, theoretical and experimental research, as well as interdisciplinary topics where physics forms the central theme. All content is permanently free to read and the journal is funded by an article publication charge.

[itsphysics]

Pendulum Waves (by NatSciDemos)

Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion.

[itsphysics]

Chemists In The Kitchen Teach Students How Different Principles of Chemistry Are Used in Cooking. You can use this link to read the full story: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10308/1100338-34.stm

[itsphysics]

Mark Srednicki's text on Quantum Field Theory

A standard text on Quantum Field Theory. It is considered to be "very readable". 2 parts of this text are available on arXiv. 

Part I (spin 0) http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0409035 and Part II (spin 1/2) http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0409036

[itsphysics]

Four lectures on Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) that Professor Richard Feynman delivered at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1979, as the Sir Douglas Robb lectures. These are for a general audience. These are valuable because they are one of just three videos series of Feynman's lectures.

The four parts are titled:

Photons - Corpuscles of light

Fits of Reflection and Transmission - Quantum Behaviour

Electrons and their Interaction

New Queries

These lectures were published as the book QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.

[itsphysics]

A set of lectures that Sidney R. Coleman gave on Quantum Field Theory at Harvard University from 1975 to '76. . "Experience" in Quantum Mechanics, Special Relativity and Electrodynamics is assumed. The personality of Coleman shines through and becomes a part of the wonderful physics he is describing.