George Mason University

School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences

PHYS 160 - University Physics I

Spring 2012

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Interesting links

• Physicists on the money
• YouTube (Anything with Richard Feynman is highly recommended)
• Free online lectures from MIT
• The GMU Physics and Astronomy Club
• Animation depicting colliding galaxies
• An Electric Orrery

Physics humor on the web

• Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
• The Laws of Cartoon Physics
• The IDEAL Scientific Equipment Company
• The age of the universe is a function of time
• A comic on centrifugal/centripetal force
• A comic in gravitational vs. inertial mass
• xkcd on what physicists are like

Stupid physics in the media

• CNN says that the space shuttle travels at 18 times the speed of light!

Math humor

• Pi is (still) wrong

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