Fundamentals of Physics

An Elementary Introduction (Teena tales)

1. Swinging into Physics
2. A Momentous Occasion
3. Conversation of Momentum
4. Conversation of Energy
5. Seesaw to The Stars
6. The Hot Squeeze
7. The Big Chill
8. A Fleeting Shadowed Sky
9. The Ideal Gas Game
10. To Fly on Another World
11. Old Sol And The Pasta Pot

See Math, especially Symmetry and Complex Numbers

Waves

General

1. Wave as You Go By
2. Disentangling 3-D Plaid
3. Three Ploys To Face A Foe
4. How to Phase A Foe
5. How to Wave A Camel
6. Better A Saber Than A Club?
7. Footprints in The Glasses
8. A Non-political Polarizing Topic
9. Properties of Space

Sound

1. Screams and Thunders
2. Galaxies Sing in A Low Register
3. Sounds, Harsh And Informative
4. A Million Times Weaker Than Moonlight
5. No Symphony on Mars
6. When Sounds Rebound
7. In Which Tone of Voice

Physics And Money (read Logistic Curve series first)

• The Buck Rolls On, We Hope
• Supply, Demand And Friction
• What Goes Around
• Flasks of Money
• The Flight of George’s Dollar
• The Solid Gold Bath Towel
• Something of Interest
• A Turn to The Urn
• Spare Change And Silly Putty
• The Sound of Money

Foundations of Measurement

An Official Mass Movement

Time

1. Time in A Bottle, Sort of
2. Elevator, Locked And Loaded
3. In A Pinch, And Out Again
4. A Clock You Can Count On and Vice-Versa
5. For The VLA, Timing Is Everything
6. What Time Is It on Mars?
7. Why I Never Know What Time It Is
8. The Tops of Time
9. Time Is Where You Find It

Distance

1. Trombones And Echoes
2. Fierce Roaring Beast

Mass

1. The Case of The Garlic Calzone
2. The Revenge of the Garlic Calzone

Electricity

1. The Currant Affair
2. Beautiful Realization

Filling out the list

1. The Magnificent Seven
   • See also A Beetled Brow
2. The Pretty-good Twenty-nine
3. Metrological Extremes

Newton

• The Direction Newton Avoided Facing
• Squeezing Past Newton’s Infinity
• Sir Isaac, The Atom and The Whirlpool
• LIGO: Gravitational Waves Ain’t Gravity Waves
• Gravitational Waves Are Something Else
• Gargh, His Heirs and the AAAD Problem
• What’s That Funnel About, Really?
• Gravity and Other Fictitious Forces
• The Question That Newton Couldn’t Answer
• Twixt A Rock And A Vortex

Einstein

• Think Globally, Act Locally. Electrons Do
• Oh, What An Entangled Wave We Weave
• Gin And The Art of Quantum Mechanics
• Is There Stuff Behind The Stats?
• Gargh, His Heirs and the AAAD Problem
• Reflections in Einstein’s Bubble
• The Question That Newton Couldn’t Answer
• A Cosmological Horse Race

Vera Rubin

1. Concerto for Rubber Ruler
2. Intermezzo for Rubber Ruler
3. Symphony for Rubber Ruler
4. Zwicky Too Soon

Gaps in Physics

• Flasks of Money
• Bridging A Paradox
• A Beetled Brow
• Twixt A Rock and a Vortex
• See The Hysterical Penguin

Electricity, Magnetism and Electromagnetism

1. Three off The Plane
2. They Went Thata-way. But Why?
3. The Speeds of Light
4. See The Hysterical Penguin
5. Not Silly-Season Stuff, Maybe
6. A Non-political Polarizing Topic
7. Properties of Space
8. Auroras And Magnetism
   1. Sky Lights
   2. Colors Made of Air
   3. Why Those Curtains Ripple
   4. Snap The Whip
9. Atom-based Magnetism
   • That Lump in The Table
   • Was Ramses Pharoah-magnetic?
   • Flipping An Edge Case
   • It’s All About The Coupling

Entropy And Energy = Thermodynamics

• Through The Looking Glass, Darkly
• Keep Calm And Stay Close to Home
• Entropy
  • Enter The Elephant, Stage Right
  • Two Sharp Dice
  • At The Turn of A Card
  • Schrodinger’s Elephant
  • Rockin’ Round The Elephant
  • Red Harvest
  • Rockfall
  • The Battle of The Entropies
  • Taming The Elephant
  • Thoughts of Chair-man Moire
• Meanwhile Back at The Office
• At the Old Curiosity Shop
• Sisyphus on A Sand Dune
• Free Energy or Not
• Bridging A Paradox
• A Beetled Brow
• Enthalpy (see also posts under Entropy)
  • It’s in The Book
  • Rumford’s Boring Story
  • Energy Is A Shape-shifter
  • Hiding Under Many Guises
  • Early Days in The Sunshine
  • Up, Down And Between
  • Deep Dive
  • The Little Engine That Cooled
  • Tightening Up Fast And Loose
  • Xanax for Molecules
  • A Sublime Moment
  • A Lazy Day at 1400°C
  • Phases And Changes
  • Surf Lake Loki? No, Thanks.
  • Water Rites
  • The Quest for Independents
  • Rows, Columns and Freedom

The Virial

1. Viral, Virial, What’s The Difference?
2. A Virial Homework Problem
3. Virial Yang And Yin

Quantum mechanics

Heisenberg

1. Don’t Blame Heisenberg
2. Heisenberg’s Trade-Offs
3. Heisenberg’s Area
4. The Universe and Werner H

Fundamental concepts

• Perturbed? You’re Not The Only One
• Particles and Poetry
• Location, Location, Location
• Think Globally, Act Locally. Electrons Do
• Oh, What An Entangled Wave We Weave
• Gin And The Art of Quantum Mechanics
• Is There Stuff Behind The Stats?
• Gargh, His Heirs and the AAAD Problem
• Reflections in Einstein’s Bubble
• Abstract Horses
• Virtualosity
• Baseball And The Virtual Particle
• Curiosity in The Internet Market
• Marconi Would Be Proud
• Drag Show

Subatomic phenomena

1. Neutral
2. Quarkery
3. A Neutral Party

How do atoms work?

1. Prelude to A Shell Game
2. Shells A-poppin
3. The Music of The Spherical Harmonics
   • See Spherical Harmonics
   • That Lump in The Table
   • Was Ramses Pharoah-magnetic?
   • Flipping An Edge Case
   • It’s All About The Coupling
4. The Shell You Say
5. To Bond Or Not To Bond, That Is The Question
6. The Shape of Water
7. The Mastery of The Pyramids
8. Three Atop A Crosshatch

Teena meets Quantum

1. Teena And The Quantum Birds
2. What Are Quantum Birds Made Of?
3. Only A Bird in A Quantum Cage
4. The Shapes of Fuzziness
5. Stairway to A Rainbow
6. Schroeder’s Magic Kittycat
7. Tiramisu And Gemstones
8. A Nightcap And Secrets

Light and Relativity

• Tiny Dimensions
• Another Slice of π, in A Black Hole Crust
• Gargh, His Heirs and the AAAD Problem
• Reflections in Einstein’s Bubble
• Calvin And Hobbes And i
• Does A Photon Experience Time?
• Time Is Where You Find It
• Throwing A Summertime Curve
• What’s That Funnel About, Really?
• You Can’t Get There from Here
• Light’s Hourglass
• Superman Flying at Lightspeed? Um .. No
• Superluminal Superman
• To Swerve And Project
• Got To Be Good-lookin’ ‘Cause He’s So Hard To See
• A No-Charge Transaction

Frames of Reference

1. The Force(s) of Geometry
2. Breathing Space
3. A Shift in The Flight
4. Three Ways to Look at Things
5. Ya Got Potential, Kid, But How Much?
6. A Matter of Perspective
7. Scone But Not Forgotten
8. LIGO and Lambda and Photons, oh my!
9. Gravity’s Real Rainbow
10. Three Body Problems
11. Weight and Wait, Two Aspects of Time
12. Questions, Meta-questions and Answers
13. Look, Look Again, Then Think
14. The Beaming Beacon
15. See Rocket Science
16. See Electromagnetism
17. See Telescopy
18. See Infra-red Astronomy

Light Faster Than Light

1. Through A Prism Brightly
2. Chasing Rainbows
3. Three-speed Transmission
4. The Relativity Factor
5. Speed Limit
6. The Pizza Connection
7. Things That Won’t Work
8. Dark Glasses
9. There’s Always An Angle
10. Look, Look Again, Then Think

Spacetime Geometry

1. Thinking in Spacetime
2. Hyperbolas But Not Hyperbole

Black holes and Relativity

• Another Slice of π, in A Black Hole Crust
• Here We LIGO Again
• Three Body Problems
• Abstract Horses
• Virtualosity
• Baseball And The Virtual Particle
• No-hair Today, Grown Tomorrow
• The Thin Edge of Infinity
• Prelude to A Waltz
• Gozer, The Stay-Puft Black Hole
• Schrodinger’s Elephant
• See Entropy
• Shopping The Old Curiosity
• Shadow Plays
• Holes in A Hole?
• Cal’s Gallery
• Science Or Not-Science?
• A High-contrast Image
• Black, White And Wormy

Perils

1. The Roche Radius and the Photon Sphere
2. The Firewall
3. Paradoxes

Perspective and space compression

1. A Perspective on Gravity
2. Gravity from Another Perspective

The external structure of a black hole

1. The Top Choice
2. Beyond The Shadow of A …
3. The Jet and the Plane
4. A Wheel in A Wheel
5. Engineering A Black Hole
6. Breaking Up? Not So Hard
7. A Star’s Tale
8. The Ultimate Pinhole Camera
9. Caged But Free

Engineering a black hole

1. The Jet And The Plane
2. Engineering A Black Hole
3. A Great Big Mesh
4. Mushy Stuff

The Event Horizon

1. Cause, Effect And Time
2. Tilting at Black Holes
3. Imagine A Skyrocket Inside a Black Hole

Black Holes and Other Bodies

1. A Tug at The Ol’ Gravity Strings
2. Hiding Among The Hill Spheres
3. SPLASH Splish plink
4. Stretch
5. The Spaghettification Zone
6. Why A Disk?

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Hyperlinks to specific topic headings…

1. Fundamentals of Physics
   1. An Elementary Introduction (Teena tales)
   2. See Math, especially Symmetry and Complex Numbers
2. Waves
   1. General
   2. Sound
3. Physics And Money (read Logistic Curve series first)
4. Foundations of Measurement
   1. An Official Mass Movement
   2. Time
   3. Distance
   4. Mass
   5. Electricity
   6. Filling out the list
5. Newton
6. Einstein
7. Vera Rubin
8. Gaps in Physics
9. Electricity, Magnetism and Electromagnetism
10. Entropy And Energy = Thermodynamics
    1. The Virial
11. Quantum mechanics
    1. Heisenberg
    2. Fundamental concepts
    3. Subatomic phenomena
    4. How do atoms work?
    5. Teena meets Quantum
12. Light and Relativity
    1. Frames of Reference
    2. Light Faster Than Light
    3. Spacetime Geometry
13. Black holes and Relativity
    1. Perils
    2. Perspective and space compression
    3. The external structure of a black hole
    4. Engineering a black hole
    5. The Event Horizon
    6. Black Holes and Other Bodies