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Physics Links Index

Amusement Park Physics
Books
Contests
Sound
EM spectrum
Light
Electricity & Magnetism
Electronics
General Physics
Labs & Demos

Measurement
Modern Physics
NASA
Organizations and Publications
Other Physics Link Collections
Physicists
Reference
Teaching Resources
Tutorials

Physics

Amusement Park Physics

Paramount's Kings Island
Roller Coaster Database - data on hundreds of coasters
Roller Coaster G Forces - animated GIF and explanation from Glenbrook South High School
Roller Coaster Project - very well done and extensive
Roller Coaster Design Project - assignment to build and analyze a model roller coaster
What's Wrong With the Rides? - amusement park accidents and ride safety

Books and Notes Online

Light and Matter: Educational Materials for Physics and Astronomy - downloadable texts in *.pdf format - wow!
Online AP Book resource Calculus based
Online AP Book resource algebra based

Contests

West Point Bridge Design
International Space Settlement Design Competition
NASA Drop Tower Competition
for High-School-Aged Student Teams
ThinkQuest is an international competition where student teams engage in
collaborative, project-based learning to create educational websites.
The winning entries form the ThinkQuest online library
. Igniting creative energy Student entries must reflect the theme "Igniting Creative Energy" and demonstrate an understanding of what an individual, family or group can do to make a difference in their home or community. Students may express their ideas in the form of documented science projects, essays, stories, artwork, photographs, music or video or website projects. They may also submit recent service projects, or results from the National Energy Foundation's own Energy Patrol activities.

Sound

Electromagnetic spectrum

Light and Optical Illusions

Electricity & Magnetism

Alternating Current and A.C. Current
CPSurf - Electric Fields & Potential - an excellent set of annotated links keyed to the Hewitt text.
Lightning Explorer Free Page - tracks lightning strikes in the continental U.S.
Molecular Experssions - Electricity & Magnetism - a very extensive collection of tutorial applets

Electronics

Physics Lecture Notes - PHYS 395 - Electronics ©D.M. Gingrich, University of Alberta - extensive course notes, well done

General Physics

Animations of Physical Processes - excellent animations (and theory) in mechanics, waves, optics, and thermodynamics
Physics and Astronomy news The PhysLink.com is a comprehensive physics and astronomy online education, research and reference web site.
Catholic Memorial High School, West Roxbury, MA
Electricity & Magnetism - Problems sets and solutions from MIT
The Gravity Tutorials - ancient to modern ideas
How Stuff Works - an utterly amazing place for the curious!
The Hydrostatic Paradox - Why does pressure depend only on depth?
Interactive Physics and Math with Java - LOTS of applets - (mostly optics and E&M)
Introductory Physics Notes - from the University of Winnepeg - from classical through quantum and nuclear physics
Life's Added Dimension - very complete (and surprising) essay on scaling (Scientific American)
MSMS Online Tutorial of Physics - AP level review with tests
Orbits & Gravitation - extensive historical essay from the MacTutor archive
Physics 131 (General Physics) Notes - very nicely done notes on mechanics
The Physics Classroom at Glenbrook South High School - excellent!
The Physics Connexion - good stuff with a sense of humor (WARNING! Some is on the racy side...)
Physics Problems & Related Topics - from Brockport High School
Racing

How Champ Cars Work - an excellent 4-article series by "How Stuff Works"
The Physics of Racing Series - an extensive collection of articles

Virtual Physics Laboratory
Why is the Sky Dark at Night? - Think the answer is obvious? Check out this cool site!
Zona Land - interactive tutorials featuring applets and VRML animations. Covers both physics (mmechanics, waves, and light) and mathematics topics.

Labs & Demos

Demonstration Index - from the University of Maryland
Socratic Dialog-Inducing Labs (SDI) - several labs in *.pdf format
The Van de Graff Generator Page - everything you want to know, from theory to constructing your own.
Equipment

Metrologic Instruments- lasers
PASCO Scientific
2000 AAPT Apparatus Competition Entries - from Rose-Hulman

Measurement

Current Definitions of SI Units - from the (U.S.) National Institute of Standards (NIST)
The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty

Modern Physics

A Century of Physics - by the American Physical Society. Web site to accompany their awesome poster/mural set about 20th century physics
Black Holes by Ted Bunn - frequently asked questions, answered
CPEP Fusion Web Course - an online "course" on fusion for introductory physics students and teachers by the Contemporary Physics Education Project
Dark Matter - nice essay with links for further research
Fundamental Forces - nice chart + links
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
FERMILAB education office
General Relativity Test - Gravity Probe B from NASA
The Higgs Particle - Physics with Atlas - an interesting, elementary explanation of the Higgs mechanism
Laser Theory Notes - from Metrologic
Laser Manipulation Group - lifting with light
Matterific!!Former students play with anti-matter
Measurement in Quantum Mechanics FAQ
The Nobel Prize in Physics - 1999 by the Royal Sweedish Academy of Sciences
The Particle Adventure - an interesting interactive tutorial.
Physics 2000 - an extensive site from the University of Colorado on modern physics, including two-slit interference, "quantum wierdness" and the Bose-Einstein condensate. Applets, movies, the works - Excellent!
Quantum Mechanics Links
Real-Time Visualization of Quantum Atomic Orbitals - downloadable shareware - cool.
Schroedinger's Cation - Scientists prove that an atom can be in two places at once (Scientific American) - same from Purdue

NASA

NASA Home Page - lots of info and interesting links
Basics of Space Flight _JPL _learn how to get to another planet!!
Headlines Archive - archives the NASA Science News articles
Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Greatest Hits
International Space Station
Mars Exploration Program
NASA K-12 Internet Initiative
NASA Office of Space Flight
NASA Photo Gallery - an index of all available NASA still photos
NASA Shuttle-Mir Web
Project Galileo Home Page (JPL)
Space Station Mir
VentureStar X33 - reusable space plane

Organizations & Publications

American Institute of Physics
American Journal of Physics - Online
American Physical Society
Archives of the Phys-L List
Archives of the TAP-L List (Teaching Apparatus)
Physical Review Focus -Selections from Physical Review and Physical Review Letters explained for students and researchers in all fields of physics.
Physics Education News (AIP)
The Physics Teacher magazine
Phys-L/Physhare Member's Webpages
Scientific American

Other Physics Link Collections

About.com - Science - Physics
Animations of Physical Processes Links Page - very nice list
Blue Web'n Science Links - excellent annotated links
Catholic Memorial Physics Teacher Resources - an annotated list of links
Donald Simanek's Pages - wisdom and an extensive set of annotated links from Uncle Don
K-12 Physics Links - a nice set of annotated links
Links to High-School Physics - links to high-school physics sites on the web, listed geographically
The Open Directory Project - Physics - very extensive Yahoo-style links
The Open Directory Project - Physics - Link Collections - lots of 'em
Physics Home Pages - an extensive list
Physics Reference - by Michael Harwood. Links concerning laboratory and error analysis are particularly good
PhysicsWeb - Web Links - VERY extensive index of physics links
Physics Web Resources - an extensive annotated list
PhysLink.com - very extensive and interesting
Phys-L/Physhare Member's Webpages
Science Sites from StFx - includes links for other sciences
Science Websites - interesting!
Stegman's Physics Links - a physics teacher's collection
Worldwide Resources - compiled by UC Berkeley

Physicists

Catalog of the Scientific Community - 16th and 17th Centuries
Contributions of 20th Century Women to Phyiscs
Feyman This web site is dedicated to Richard P. Feynman, scientist, teacher, raconteur, and musician. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, expanded the understanding of quantumelectrodynamics, translated Mayan hieroglyphics, and cut to the heart of the Challenger disaster.

Einstein

Albert Einstein Online - massive number of Einstein links!
Einstein Revealed - by Nova Online

Galileo

Galileo - text by Prof. Fred L. Wilson, Rochester Institute of Technology
Galileo & the Art of the Renaissance
Galileo & Einstein Home Page - lecture notes (from the ancients through relativity), applets, translations of Galileo's works, and links
The Galileo Project

Stephen Hawking - not about Hawking - this is his page!
Heisenberg & the Uncertainty Principle (AIP)
Newton

ISAAC -- Newton's Life
Isaac Newton biography
Sir Isaac Newton
The Sir Isaac Newton Home Page - from University of Kentucky
Newtonia - Pages about Sir Isaac Newton
WWW Resources Related to Isaac Newton

Pictures

Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel Laureates in Physics 1901 - 1996
The Nobel Prize in Physics - 1999 by the Royal Sweedish Academy of Sciences

Planck, Max
Rutherford, Ernest - from Compton's Encyclopedia
Why study biographies of scientists?

Rainbows

Reference

Chronology of Physics - by George W. Goth, Skyline College - very extensive, with many links
The Laws List - a comprehensive list of physical laws, units, and constants.
The Magnitudes of Physics - extensive, printable list
PhysLink.com - very extensive and interesting site
Significant Digits & Rounding Rules - several links

Teaching Resources

Archives of PHYSHARE@LISTS.PSU.EDU - archive of the physics teacher's listserve
BU Physics Demo Room - pictures and descriptions of many physics demos, also links to demo resources at other universities. (from Boston University)
Catholic Memorial Physics Teacher Resources - an annotated list of links
Dean Baird's Phyz Home Page - excellent resource!
Demonstration Table of Contents - extensive notes and descriptions from the University of Victoria
Discovery Channel School - part of Discovery.com, has areas for teachers, students, and parents
Fermi Problems of Estimation - a set of "Fermi Problems" along with an interesting list of "facts for fun", provided by Brockport Highs School Science Department
Force Concept Inventory - and other instruments available for download
Home Page of Peggy E. Schweiger - lots of good physics stuff - a former ENC Digital Dozen site
Online Demonstration Resources - extensive links to resources
Physics 20 Curriculum Sequence - with web links (Sasketchewan)
Physics 30 Curriculum Sequence - with web links (Sasketchewan)
Physics Curriculum Units - Queens University
PhysicsWeb - by Edwin R. Schweber - includes free downloadable questions (with answers)
Science and Math Initiatives (SAMI) - resources from the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Stegman's AP Physics Page - another AP Physics teacher's point of view...from West Springfield High School, Springfield, VA.
TeK-12 Resources - web resources from Ball State University

Tutorials

Bang! Boing! Pop! - very nice interactive site for beginning physicists
The Book of Phyz by Dean Baird - excellent! Lessons, questions, and answers in Adobe Acrobat format
Hyper physics tutorials Another great tutorial
Learn Physics Today - good overview of basic physics with interactive quizzes.
Nuclear physics tutorial Radioactive decay applications from Ireland
The Physics Classroom- Great multimedia and content
Visual Physics - Simulations, tutorials, and more - by and for high-school physics students.