Pages created and updated by Terry Sturtevant Date Posted: January 12, 2011

These documents are "dynamic" as opposed to "static". In other words, they allow you to move back and forth through the material to (hopefully!) make it easier to follow one step at a time. It's like an animation at a speed that you control. I'd love to get feedback, especially if you find it useful and/or see how it can be improved.
(In case you're interested, these are produced with LaTeX beamer.)

Physics concepts

Basic Statistics 420K ( Page last updated Wednesday January 8, 2014 )
average, standard deviation, and more
X-Y Graphs 403K ( Page last updated Friday December 12, 2014 )
how to make and use x-y graphs
Screencast of graphing document 13M ( Page last updated Wednesday December 15, 2010 )
Linearizing equations 522K ( Page last updated Friday December 12, 2014 )
how to produce straight line graphs from all kinds of equations
Screencast of the linearizing equations document 16M ( Page last updated Monday December 13, 2010 )
Least Squares Fitting 427K ( Page last updated Friday December 12, 2014 )
how to calcualte slope and y-intercept and their standard errors from linear data
Screencast of least squares fitting document 14M ( Page last updated Tuesday December 21, 2010 )
Uncertainties in Graphical Quantities 381K ( Page last updated Friday December 12, 2014 )
how to get the uncertainties in the slope and y-intercept from linear graphs
Screencast of uncertainties in graphical quantities document 20M ( Page last updated Wednesday December 15, 2010 )
Voltage, current, and resistance 1.0M ( Page last updated Tuesday February 16, 2010 )
basic information about DC electricity
Wiring basics 467K ( Page last updated Monday June 15, 2009 )
basic information about breadboards, LEDs, keypads, DIP switches, resistor arrays, chips, etc.
Other circuit components 749K ( Page last updated Thursday June 4, 2009 )
function of capacitors, diodes, LEDs, BJTs and FETs in DC circuits
Kirchhoff's laws 567K ( Page last updated Tuesday February 16, 2010 )
use of Kirchhoff's laws to analyze DC circuits

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