1. Please be Seated

2. Good Vibrations Physics is Phun November 2006

3. Aims or Goals of Science: 1.Learn all there is to know about the universe. 2.Rearrange it to suit our needs.

4. Three Main Sciences: If it bites and scratches, it’s biology. If it stinks and pops, it’s chemistry. If it doesn’t work, it’s physics.

5. Life without physics is like a fish without a bicycle. -feminist wisdom

6. Vibrations A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.

7. Periodic Motion

8. Simple Harmonic Motion

9. SHM as Projection of Uniform Circular Motion

10. Vibrations in crystal lattice Hooke’s Law

11. Other examples of Simple Harmonic Motion

12. RESONANCE: 1. Driven and Damped Harmonic Motion 2. Coupled resonance

13. Chaos in Driven and Damped SHM UM Prof. James Yorke

17. Gravitational Waves: Prof. Joe Weber, UMD

19. L aser I nterferometer G ravitational Wave O bservatory

20. LIGO Gravity Wave Response

21. LIGO Artist’s View

22. LIGO Hanford Observatory

23. Ligo Livingston Observatory

24. http://www.physics.umd.edu/news/photon/iss50/researchspotlight.htm Listening for Gravitational Waves by Peter Shawhan, Assistant Professor of Physics University of Maryland Gravity Experiment Research Group Article in Departmental Newsletter, The Photon, October 2006

25. L aser I nterferometer S pace A ntenna

26. LISA in Solar System

27. LISA Satellite Configuration

28. Laser Interferometer Space Antenna LISA Home Page at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

29. Combinations of Simple Harmonic Motions

30. Applications to Sound and Light

31. BAD Vibrations

32. Millenium Bridge Pedestrian suspension bridge across the Thames river in London

33. We are on the web at http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/ Animated Gifs compliments of bellsnwhistles.com The End See you in January!