Physics career planning
- earn a major or minor in physics at WLC
- engineering and physics dual-degree program with UW-Milwaukee
- find WLC physics course descriptions
- meet my current and former students and research assistants
- request physics tutoring or curriculum consulting
- Career options flowchart for physics majors.
- Who Is Hiring Physics Bachelor’s? A state-by-state listing of the many employers who recently hired physics bachelor’s into science and engineering positions.
- Physics careers toolbox. This is a nice resource published by the society of physics students.
- Latest Employment Data for Physicists and Astronomers. Reports that provide the latest data on where physicists work and what they do throughout the economy and at different degree levels.
- gallery of fluid motion—beautiful and educational images of fluids
- minute physics, smartereveryday, veritasium and physicsgirl
- atmospheric optics—these folks have some beautiful outdoor images
- PhET Interactive Physics Simulations—these are great for learning basic physics principles.
- 3quarksdaily—science, arts, philosophy, politics, literature
- 3blue1brown—animated math videos
- esoterica—a fascinating website that explores the arcane side of science: magic, mysticism, alchemy, hermetic philosophy, astrology, etc.
- hyperphysics—a great overview of physics from Georgia State University
- numberphile—many interesting math videos
- National Committee for fluid mechanics series—old (but excellent) introductory videos for physicists and engineers. Also available are the accompanying lecture notes from MIT
- How to do math(s) without a calculator—a practical and fun video for all ages
- The Festival of the Annunciation. (WLC chapel, March 25, 2022) PDF version.
- Acts Chapter 3: The healing of the lame man on the Temple steps. (WLC chapel, April 22, 2021)
- Hebrews Chapter 4: The Word of God can divide bone and marrow, soul and spirit. (WLC chapel, Oct. 30, 2020).
- Daniel Chapter 3: The Fiery Furnace (WLC chapel, Jan. 28, 2020). PDF version.
- The Capacity to Forgive (WLC chapel, Oct. 10, 2019). PDF version.
- Jesus' Bread of Life discourse (WLC chapel, Feb. 27, 2019). PDF version
- All Saint's Day (WLC chapel, Nov. 1, 2018); my talk begins at minute 8:10. PDF version.
- The Presentation of our Lord (WLC chapel, Feb. 2, 2018). The recording begins mid-talk, unfortunately. PDF version
- God is changeless (WLC chapel, Sept. 7, 2017); my talk begins at minute 5:50. PDF version
- First Corinthians, Chap. 3 (WLC chapel, Feb. 15, 2017); my talk begins at minute 5:55. PDF version
- The Living Stones metaphor (WLC chapel, Sept. 14, 2016); my talk begins at minute 4:39. PDF version
- Not just creation versus evolution. This is a course of six lectures on apologetics that I delivered at St. John's Lutheran Church in Wauwatosa in 2020.
- The Scientific Context of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. This is a zoom lecture I gave on Feb. 22, 2021 to a group of students enrolled in the Liberal Arts Seminar at Wisconsin Lutheran College.
- Physics and Theology at the University of Ottawa, March 16, 2019
- December Commencement speech (Wisconsin Lutheran College, December 2013). PDF version
- Introductory lecture on William Gilbert's De magnete (PHY 202 lecture, Aug. 14, 2014)
- Another lecture on William Gilbert's De magnete (PHY 202 lecture, Aug. 28, 2014)
- Ampere's Actions between currents (PHY 202 lecture, Sep. 11, 2014)
- Helmholtz's On the Conservation of Force (PHY 202 lecture, Sep. 18, 2014)
- Newton's Optiks (PHY 202 lecture, Sept. 25, 2014)
- Huygens' Treatise on Light (PHY 202 lecture, Oct. 9, 2014)
- Young's On the Nature of Light and Colors (PHY 202 lecture, Oct. 16, 2014)
- Tyndall's Lectures on Light (PHY 202 lecture, Oct. 23, 2014)
- Faraday's Experimental Researches (PHY 202 lecture, Oct. 30, 2014)