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Physics notes

I wrote many physics notes over the years. These notes do not contain new discoveries, nor do I believe that I am any better at explaining things than professional physics educators. These are merely my personal study notes. That said, some may find them useful. These notes are not formal; although I try to make sure that the mathematics contained therein is correct, by no means do I attempt to prove every theorem, and yes, I admit I sometimes make leaps that would be unacceptable in more formal texts. The real purpose of these notes, then, is to provide an outline, a roadmap of sorts to help one truly understand what's happening, on the phenomenological level. Some of these notes, in fact, began their existence as comments in my somewhat eclectic Day Book.

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List of articles in category Physics notes
Title Created Date
Proper vs. apparent motion of a star 25 December 2022
Expanding an infinite cosmos 19 December 2022
Lyot coronagraphs 09 August 2022
A simple MOG rotation curve calculator 01 January 2022
Why cosmic expansion has no center 24 May 2021
Animating quartic roots (supplement to arXiv:2105.07295) 15 May 2021
Cosmology calculator 26 April 2021
SGL astroid animations (supplement to arXiv:2104.08442) 14 April 2021
Gravitoelectromagnetism 08 March 2021
On wave-particle duality 26 August 2020
The simple SIR epidemiological model and COVID-19 in the US 29 March 2020
Cosmic expansion is not a force 13 January 2020
Fourier deconvolution 13 January 2020
The deconvolution penalty 12 January 2020
More on Lambertian surfaces 15 December 2019
Lambert's W-function and certain equations 22 August 2019
On Lambertian spheres 19 July 2019
The Lagrangian of the rigid pendulum 30 May 2019
Quora answer: How did Einstein derive his equation E = mc²? 01 March 2017
The Newtonian limit in general relativity 12 December 2016
Hawking radiation calculator 01 July 2016
Perihelion advance of Mercury and the nonlinearity of gravity 12 March 2016
The bending of light by gravity 01 March 2016
Dry bulb and wet bulb temperatures 21 January 2016
The signs of general relativity 21 January 2016
Building a quantum theory 20 July 2015
A covariant form of Maxwell's equations 12 January 2015
Quora answer: The sign in a thermodynamic equation 18 December 2014
Simulation of a Bose star (supplement to Phys. Rev. D 91, 044041) 11 December 2014
Quora answer: Constants 29 November 2014
Quora answer: Faster-than-light to the past 22 November 2014
Quora answer: The idea behind the exponential 16 November 2014
Quora answer: Why can we not travel in time? 13 November 2014
Quora answer: Field with decreasing permittivity 10 November 2014
Quora answer: Why isn't Brans-Dicke theory preferred over Einstein's? 01 October 2014
The resistor bridge 02 September 2014
Quora answer: How is the choice of Lagrangian not unique? 01 September 2014
Quora answer: How are neutrons and protons held together? 13 August 2014
On color vision 20 July 2014
The Lagrangian of Newtonian gravity 24 January 2014
Dirac's Lectures and constrained Hamiltonians 26 December 2013
Cosmology 101 09 December 2013
The likelihood ratio 07 September 2013
Tensor calculus cheat sheet 24 August 2013
The Lanczos tensor at the Schwarzschild horizon 09 January 2013
Weighted linear regression 14 February 2010
Spinors and fields 31 January 2010
Richardson extrapolation 11 December 2009
The Mythbusters still don't get their physics right 02 November 2009
Classical Maxwell-Proca fields and a thought on magnetic monopoles 03 August 2009
Thermodynamic principles 28 June 2007
On the barometric formula 27 June 2007
The Mythbusters don't always get their numbers right 14 April 2007
Why does dark matter explain anomalous galaxy rotations? 04 April 2006
On tensors and their matrix representations 10 August 2005
On eigenvectors and eigenfunctions (and salted pork) 19 June 2005
From set theory to electromagnetism 22 February 2005
Kaluza-Klein theory 01 December 2004
The action and the wave function 26 September 2004
About the action integral 19 September 2004
The numerology of physical constants 28 August 2004
Einstein's equation is not E = mc² 12 August 2004
The families of elementary particles 31 July 2004
The principle of least action 21 July 2004
The electromagnetic field tensor 09 March 2004
About the de Rham complex 08 March 2004
Curved Spacetime 06 March 2004
On the interpretations of quantum mechanics 05 February 2004
Clifford Algebras 09 December 2003
Spinors in three dimensions 07 December 2003
The principle of gauge invariance 19 November 2003
Why is the speed of light constant? 06 June 2003
Quaternions and the Dirac equation 12 March 2003
Principles of elementary quantum mechanics 14 January 2003
Cardano's problem 31 December 2002
Bell's theorem rehashed 27 May 2001
Programmable calculators... the dawn of personal computing

 

 
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