Physics in Brief

Here is a collection of some of my favorite elementary topics in physics, which you can view at dhmunro.github.io/garland. You can find the source code for all of this at github.com/dhmunro/garland.

• Free Precession: Using conservation laws and modeling to understand unexpected dynamics
• NIF Tour: Meet the world's largest laser and learn how it works
• Diffraction: What an image tells you about the camera (or telescope or your eye)
• Spacetime Geometry: A geometrical introduction to special relativity
• Understanding Spacetime Geometry: Understanding spacetime geometry (in article form)
• Questions and answers: Things I should have covered at the Field Day