This is Jon Chan's page for his "Introduction to the Physical Sciences" project.

Media:

• text
• videos
• interactive widgets (with Hype)

Topics to Discuss

• what physics is
• the atom
  • quarks
    • up
    • down
    • charm
    • strange
    • top
    • bottom
• molecules and relation to chemistry
• general and special relativity
  • four-dimentional spacetime
    • entropy and the arrow of time
  • how Einstein proved E=mc^2
  • how E=mc^2 is technically wrong
  • the twin paradox
    • solution to the twin paradox
• the Standard Model
  • Higgs field
  • Higgs boson
  • Pauli exclusion principal
• Planck length and time
• quantum theory
  • bosons
    • photons
  • electrons
    • double-slit experiment
  • entanglement
  • wave-particle duality
  • Bose-Einstein condensates
  • wave function (psi)
• superstring theory
• astrophysics
  • redshift and blueshift (Doppler effect)
  • vacuum energy/dark energy
  • orbit
    • planetary
    • galactic
  • nuclear fusion in stars
    • supernovae
    • how iron prevents further fusion
• nuclear fusion and fission
  • atomic and nuclear bombs
• airflow
  • laminar
  • turbulent
  • four forces on an aeroplane
    • weight
    • drag
    • lift
    • thrust
• four fundamental forces of nature
  • strong
  • weak
  • electromagnetic
  • gravity
• how polaroid 3D glasses work (polarisation of light)
• reflection and refraction
• singularities (black holes)
  • Hawking radiation
• wormholes
• entropy
• laws of thermodynamics
• radioactive decay