resources
Various notes, slides, etc. I keep here in case anyone finds them useful.
- Undergraduate Physics in a Hurry: I wrote these notes in 2019 to prepare for the preliminary exam in physics that all physics Ph.D. students at Princeton take. It’s a rapid-fire review of mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, with around 120 worked example problems. I am in the process of turning this into a book with Princeton Press, co-authored with Andy Leifer. When that is complete, the draft version will no longer be available here.
- Mathematica Hogwarts: Becoming a Wizard: The Mathematica notebook for a workshop I taught during Princeton’s Wintersession. Here is a version with the exercises solved.
- Introduction to quantum mechanics: Some notes on quantum mechanics I wrote as an undergraduate for some friends.
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Splash: At JHU I taught some math/physics workshops for high school students with Splash. Here are some slides:
- Newton’s Universe: Classical Mechanics
- Fiat Lux: The Beauty of Electromagnetism
- Einstein’s Reality: Space and Time in Modern Physics
- The Story of the Universe
- The Quantum World: A New Kind of Physics
- Emergent Phenomena: The Physics of Many-Body Systems
- Einstein’s Dream: The Theory of Everything
- Alan Turing, World War II, and the Theory of Computation
- Georg Cantor, Kurt Godel, and the Incompleteness of Mathematics
- Albert Einstein, Black Holes, and Gravitational Waves
- Leonhard Euler: Master of us All
- Richard Feynman, the Path Integral, and Least Action Principles
- Evariste Galois and the Solvability of Equations