Links

Here you will find external links to some freely available resources on the web.

Ultracold gases

• Mueller Research Group: Ultracold atom theory at Cornell
• Cooper Research Group: Many-body quantum theory at Cambridge
• Ultracold Atom News: Tracking activity in the field of neutral quantum degenerate gases
• arXiv: Daily research articles on quantum gases
• Nobel Lecture (pdf) by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman on Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute gas
• Newton Lecture (video) by Debbie Jin on ultracold gases

Physics education

• PhET Simulations: Interactive simulations for science and math
• ComPADRE: Resources for Physics and Astronomy education
• PhysPort: Teaching resources based on physics education research
• CPERL: Physics Education Research at Cornell
• Demonstrations: A compilation of physics demos, with problems and puzzles
• Practical Physics: A collection of experiments which demonstrate physical concepts
• Feynman Lectures on Physics and Exercises (Caltech)
• Lecture notes on Condensed-matter physics from graduate courses at Cornell
• Lecture notes on Condensed-matter physics from courses at TCM (Cambridge)
• MIT OpenCourseware: Lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT
• edX: Free online courses on a variety of subjects
• Piazza: Free Q&A platform to aid learning
• YouTube channels: minutephysics, Veritasium, Vihart, Vsauce, TED-Ed, 3Blue1Brown
• TED Talks: A collection of TED Talks (and more) on teaching
• Duke Physics Challenges: Fun physics problems (contains links to more resources)
• Harvard Problem of the Week: More problems and puzzles
• Solving Problems in Physics: Tips for honing problem-solving skills

To find exercise problems, animations, and notes prepared by me, see Teaching page.

Softwares and computing

• Wolfram: Computation resource
• ITensor: Intelligent Tensor Library
• Overleaf: Collaborative online LaTeX editor
• CTAN: Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
• StackExchange: Useful Q&A sites on a variety of topics, including Mathematica and TeX.
• LaTeXiT: Graphical interface to insert LaTeX equations into presentation slides
• MaTeX: LaTeX typesetting in Mathematica
• TeX for Gmail for inserting LaTeX equations in Gmail (Chrome)

Essays and articles

• The Value of Science — Feynman
• Plenty of Room at the Bottom — Feynman
• The Meaning of It All — Feynman
• Do not remain nameless to yourself — Feynman
• What is Life — Schrodinger
• Life at low Reynolds number — Purcell
• More is Different — Anderson
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences — Wigner
• The Relation between Mathematics and Physics — Dirac
• A Mathematician’s Apology — Hardy
• On Being the Right Size — Haldane
• The Chemical History of a Candle — Faraday
• On the Six-Cornered Snowflake — Kepler
• Essays by Steven Strogatz on the beauty of math
• Quanta: Magazine on developments in physics, mathematics, biology, computer science
• Bigyan: A Bengali popular science magazine “for those who love, or fear, science”
• Physics: Highlights from Physical Review and Physical Review Letters for non-experts
• More magazines: Physics World, Scientific American, Discover, NatGeo, Physics Today
• arXiv: Repository of electronic preprints of scientific papers
• PRL Collections: Free-to-read influential papers from Physical Review Letters
• The Net Advance of Physics: Review articles and tutorials in an encyclopedic format

Podcasts

• The Infinite Monkey Cage: Scientists and comedians discuss science and pseudoscience
• The Joy of X: Steven Strogatz talks with leading scientists about life and work
• The Joy of Why: Steven Strogatz talks with researchers about great scientific and mathematical questions
• In Our Time: BBC Radio 4 discussion series exploring the history of ideas
• BBC podcasts on Science and Nature
• A list of “20 best science podcasts on the internet”

Collected works

Science

• Richard Feynman — There are numerous great resources online, e.g., visit fs.blog/richard-feynman and follow the links, read his Nobel Lecture, or explore videos on YouTube
• Albert Einstein — The Collected Papers, Einstein Archives Online, and more resources
• Issac Newton — The Newton Project, Newton Papers
• James Clerk Maxwell — The Scientific Papers, James Clerk Maxwell Foundation
• Michael Faraday — His Life and Work
• Satyendra Nath Bose — Collected Scientific Papers, The Quantum Indians
• Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman — C.V. Raman and his work
• Charles Darwin — Darwin Online, Darwin Correspondence Project
• Leonhard Euler — The Euler Archive
• Srinivasa Ramanujan — Papers and Notebooks, The Mathematician and His Legacy

Humanities

• Rabindranath Tagore — The Complete Works, Rabindra Rachanabali, Documentary
• Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay — Sarat Rachanabali
• Sukumar Ray — Complete works, Documentary
• William Shakespeare — The Complete Works, Open Source Shakespeare
• Charles Dickens — The Complete Works
• Oscar Wilde — The Oscar Wilde Collection, Complete Works
• Lewis Carroll — The Complete Works
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi — Gandhi Heritage Portal

Miscellaneous

• Personal and Historical Perspectives of Hans Bethe: Conversations and lectures
• Chandrasekhar Centennial Symposium: Talks on the legacy of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• CornellCast: Video and audio recordings of lectures, discussions, and performances at Cornell
• World Science Festival: Panel discussions on a variety of interesting topics
• Internet Archive: Free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more
• Project Gutenberg: Free ebooks
• Cornell University Library, Passkey (off-campus access), and alumni access
• Cambridge University Library and Lean library extension for off-campus access
• 13 best science books for the general reader according to Steven Weinberg
• Big Think, Web of Stories, and Edge: Stimulating interviews
• Gapminder, Our World in Data: Illuminating graphics to promote a fact-based world view