Materials

Teaching

The following are supplementary materials I've created for use in courses I've taught. They shouldn't be considered to be entirely self-contained, but, combined with other sources/a pre-existing knowledge of the topic, aim to reinforce or expand upon some aspect of physics.

An illustration and discussion of the electric potential for two point charges of equal and opposite magnitude [PDF]. Appropriate for an introductory E&M class.
Four gifs showing the normal modes of coupled oscillating systems: one, two, and three carts (of identical mass) connected by identical springs; and the three vibrational + one rotational modes of a triangle of equal masses connected by equal-stiffness springs [ZIP]. Made for an upper-level Mechanics course, but you could probably use them conceptually in an introductory course.
Two graphics demonstrating how spatial interference works for two pure-tone sources, with some explanation; as well as three sound files demonstrating temporal interference (beat frequency) for two pure tones [ZIP]. Appropriate for an introductory course.

Visualizations

I'm probably guilty of spending too much time making and tweaking illustrations, plots, videos, and other visual media to communicate physics concepts, be it at conferences or in the classroom. Here's a selection of some of those outcomes.

sample-loop-0percent.mp4

A loop taken directly from a simulation of the early universe. Note the abundance of "wiggles", or small-scale structure! The colors here indicate the speed of that segment of loop: redder is faster, and bluer is slower. The thickness of the string is just for visualization purposes; its actual thickness could be many orders of magnitude smaller.

sample-loop-50percent.mp4

The same loop after evolving it, under the influence of its own gravitational field, until half of the energy initially present has been lost to gravitational waves. Note how most of the small-scale structure has been smoothed out, but four large "kinks" remain!

LaTeX

Here are some LaTeX templates I've made. They're probably only compatible with a full install, but I haven't checked.

A dissertation/thesis template using the memoir class [TEX]. Of course, each institution has their own set of requirements for formatting, but there's a good amount of groundwork for these things already laid in this file.
A style file for Beamer presentations which removes most of the clutter that comes by default and adds some useful commands for list structures [STY].