Past and Current Class Documents (Steuard Jensen)

This will serve as a place to store particularly useful documents from classes I have taught.

Space-time diagrams: Visualizing Special Relativity (632 KB PDF; 4 pages): A handout written for my introductory physics class explaining a method of visualizing special relativity. It's pretty terse (especially for me), but I think it covers the essential ideas of different observers' perception of time. (It even includes a pictorial explanation of the twin "paradox" on the last page.)
GRE Optics review (70 KB PDF; 4 pages): Notes on optics written for a physics GRE review course. We quickly decided that handing the students notes this detailed might lull them into thinking that we were going to do all the studying for them (and falsely so! Even this review doesn't cover everything GRE takers need to know, especially when it comes to general "waves" rather than pure optics.) But since I did already write up this one topic, I might as well post the notes here.