== Navigation Links == * [[..start|Browse activities by Classroom Strategy]] * [[.:Start|Rationale and Tips for Using Computational Activities]] ===== Computer Visualization Activities ===== ==== Using Maple ==== * Getting Started with Maple ==== Electromagnetism ==== * Visualizing Electrostatic Potentials ==== Classical Mechanics ==== * Orbits and Effective Potential * Polar Plots of Conic Sections * Exploring the Effective Potential ==== Quantum Mechanics ==== * Particle Confined to a Ring * Particle Confined to a Sphere * Hydrogen Probability Densities * Guessing the Legendre Polynomial Expansion of a Function * Finding Legendre Coefficients * Linear Combinations of Spherical Harmonics * Radial Wavefunctions ==== Oscillations and Waves ==== * Guessing the Fourier Expansion of a Function ==== Mathematical Methods ==== * Approximating Functions with a Power Series * Visualizing Gradient * Visualizing Flux * Visualizing Divergence * Visualizing Curl ===== Computer Simulations ===== ==== Quantum Mechanics: Stern-Gerlach Simulations ==== These labs all use a java program called SPINS that simulates Stern-Gerlach experiments with spin 1/2 and spin 1 particles. The software runs on all platforms and can be downloaded from [[http://physics.oregonstate.edu/~mcintyre/ph425/spins/index_SPINS_OSP.html|the SPINS home page]]. * SPINS Lab 1 * SPINS Lab 2 * SPINS Lab 3 * SPINS Lab 4 ==== Thermal Physics Simulation ==== The Density Matrix - A simulation using SPINS{{strategy:computation:densitymatrixlab.pdf|}} ===== Computer Animations ===== * Particle Confined to a Ring * Particle Confined to a Sphere * Hydrogen Atom * Earth Hockey