Miron Kaufman

TABLE of CONTENTS

My Vita
 Mathcad Files
 Interesting Sites
 Search Engines
 Course Pages
 
 

MATHCAD FILES

Below are MathCad files for the computer labs, part of courses I teach: Physics A, Physics B, Physics C, Thermal Physics, Statistical Physics, Environmental Physics. You can access them with MathCad 6.0. Here are instructions from Mathsoft on how to configure your browser to turn on the Mcad.exe when encountering a *.mcd file.

Physics A

 Computer lab.#1 Mathcad Tutorial and Projectile Motion
 Computer lab.#2 Uniform Circular Motion
 Computer lab.#3 Sliding on a Hemisphere without Friction

 

Physics B

 Computer lab.#1 Electric Field of Two Charges
 Computer lab.#2a Electrostatic Potential of Charged Ring
 Computer lab.#2b Electric Field of Charged Ring
 Computer lab.#3a Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field
 Computer lab.#3b Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field and in an Electric Field
 

Thermal Physics

 Computer lab #0 Tutorial and Example of Entropy Maximization
 Computer lab #1 Estimate of Mass of Atmosphere
 Computer lab #2 Stirling Heat Engine
 Computer lab #3 Ruchardt method for Cp/Cv
 Computer lab #4 van der Waals fluid
 Computer lab #5 Thermodynamic Stability
 

Statistical Physics

 Computer lab #1 Tutorial and Gamma Function
 Computer lab #2 Einstein Crystal
 Computer lab #2b Two-State Model, Negative Temperature, Schottky Hump
 Computer lab #3 Electromagnetic Radiation
 Computer lab #4 Magnetic Cooling
 Computer lab #5 Bose-Einstein Condensation
 

Environmental Physics

 Computer lab #1 Tutorial and Exponential Growth Consumption Model
 Computer lab #2 Hubbert Consumption Model
 Computer lab #3 Earth's and Sun's Electromagnetic Radiation
 Computer lab #4 Deterministic Chaos
 Computer lab #5 Butterfly Effect
  Lorenz attractor
 

The Monte Carlo Method

 Computer lab #1 Ideal gas simulation
 Computer lab #2 Einstein-Smoluchowski Equation
 Computer lab #3 Cellular Automata and Fractals
 
  to see an animated scientific visualization courtesy of Mathsoft.
  to see an animation (*.avi file) based on the Fibonacci numbers.
 
 

Interesting Sites

Sanda Kaufman
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
MIT
American Physical Society
Ohio Section of the American Physical Society
APS Forum on Physics and Society
American Institute of Physics
Physics Today
Computers in Physics
(British) Institute of Physics
American Association of Physics Teachers
World Lecture Hall from U. Texas, Austin
Internet Pilot to Physics
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Sites
MATHSOFT maker of MathCad
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

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Courses in Physics and Urban Studies

Physics A
Physics B
Physics C
Physics 1
Thermal Physics
Statistical Physics
Environmental Physics
Monte Carlo Techniques
Foundations of Quantitative Reasoning
Quantitative Research Methods I
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