A CENTURY OF PHYSICS

WAVE OPTICS

Periodic Waves

Interference

Young's Double Slit Experiment Version 1

Young's Double Slit Experiment Version 2

Diffraction; The Single Slit

The Diffraction Grating

Standing Waves

SPECIAL RELATIVITY

The Michelson-Morley Experiment Photograph

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

The Michelson-Morley Experiment: Schematic and Images

Biography: Albert A. Michelson

Observers, Reference Frames and Time Dilation

Two Clocks and Clocks in Relative Motion

Simultaneity, Length Contraction

The Lorentz Transformation

Velocity Addition

The Doppler Effect

Momentum and Energy in Relativity

Conversion of Mass to Energy

QUANTUM MECHANICS

Atoms and Quantization

The Photoelectric Effect: The experiment

The Photoelectric Effect: Einstein 1905

The Photoelectric Effect: Einstein

The Photoelectric Effect: The graphs and photon energy

X-Rays and the Compton Effect

Atomic Spectra

The Bohr Atom

Bohr's 1913 paper

Successes of the Bohr Model

Matter Waves, Electron Diffraction

Standing Waves in Quantum Mechanics; Quantization

Electron Spin

Multielectron Atoms and the Pauli Principle

The Elements by Tom Lehrer

SUBATOMIC PHYSICS

Nuclear Properties

Chart of the Nuclides

Radioactivity and the Decay Law

Marie Curie

Radioactive Dating

Archaeological Dating

Nuclear Reactions

Nuclear Fission

Discovery of Fission

Bohr on Liquid Drop Model

Enrico Fermi

Nuclear Fusion