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Teaching Modern Physics - QuarkNet - Fermilab

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Electron:<br />

Applets & Other Web Resources<br />

Millikan’s oil-drop experiment:<br />

http://www68.pair.com/willisb/millikan/experiment.html<br />

Thompson’s e/m experiment:<br />

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/electron/section2/shockwave.asp<br />

Nucleus/protons:<br />

Rutherford scattering:<br />

History (good initial reading):<br />

http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae46.cfm<br />

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/Rutherford_Scattering/Rutherford_Scattering.html<br />

Applet:<br />

http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/rutherford/rutherford.html<br />

Applet, with reference to Cinema Classics clip<br />

http://www.physics.brown.edu/physics/demopages/Demo/modern/demo/7d5010.htm<br />

Miscellaneous:<br />

Simple and elegant Kepler’s law/elliptical orbit applet:<br />

http://home.att.ne.jp/gold/kamikawa/physics/motion/motion_e.htm<br />

Excellent clip showing powers of 10. Start way outside of the Milky Way and end up near a<br />

proton in Florida!<br />

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/<br />

Nice applet of a light clock; you alter the velocity (up to 0.8c). Simple, but shows length<br />

contraction rather well.<br />

http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Applets/TaiwanUniv/relativity/relativity.html<br />

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