URL: http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/physics.htmPage maintained by David Podboy
Page created by Oliver Zeff
Last update: June 14, 2007
The "Virtual"
- Physics Center
http://www.martindalecenter.com/GradPhysics.html
This site has a collection of annotated links for physics.
PhysicsWeb: Physics News, Jobs, and Resources
http://physicsweb.org/
This resource includes news, articles, and a comprehensive annotated index to
on-line physics resources. The Buyer's Guide is a classified business directory
with links to suppliers of lab equipment and other materials. Information is
also included for conferences, workshops, and worldwide job listings.
Physics
Favorites
http://www.physci.wsc.ma.edu/dept/resources/links.html#physics
Physics Favorites is a collection of physics links maintained by the Department
of Physical Science, Westfield State College.
College Physics
for Students of Biology and Chemistry (Dr. Kenneth R. Koehler, Raymond
Walters College, University of Cincinnati)
http://www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys/text.html
"This is a hypertextbook written for first-year undergraduate physics
students. It assumes that you have a working knowledge of algebra, that you
are currently taking or have taken a college level course in Biology and one
in Chemistry, and that you are interested in biology, chemistry or one of the
health-related fields."
DC Physics Help
for Students
http://www.dctech.com/physics/student_help.php
Great site for the beginning physics student.
Einstein Light
(Dr. Joe Wolfe, Department of Physics, University of New South Wales)
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/
Dr. Wolfe presents five video segments on the development of Einstein's
theory of relativity: Galileo (mechanics & relativity); Maxwell (electricity
& magnetism); Einstein (relativity & constant c); Time Dilation (follows
from relativity); and E=mc2 (relativity & mechanics). Each segment is also
accompanied by a collection of pages that explain the topic in further detail.
Physical Review Focus
http://focus.aps.org/
Articles from the Physics Review and Physical Review Letters,
both published by the American Physical Society
Living Reviews in Relativity
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/
This is a peer-reviewed online "open source" publication covering
relativity and related topics, published by the Max Planck Society of Germany.
Living Reviews in Solar
Physics
http://solarphysics.livingreviews.org/
This is a peer-reviewed online "open source" publication covering
solar physics and related topics, published by the Max Planck Society of Germany.
Online Journal of Undergraduate Research
in Physics
http://www.jurp.org/jurp.htm
From the Society of Physics students, a free online journal of undergraduate
research, papers and presentations. The journal is open to submissions from
all undergraduate students studying physics.
arXiv.org (Cornell University Library)
http://www.arxiv.org/
Hosted by the Cornell University Library, this archive provides searchable access
to 359,541 research papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, and quantitative
biology.
The Industrial Physicist
http://www.aip.org/tip/
A free online magazine devoted to the application of physics in industry and
the work and recognition of industrial physicists.
Eric Weisstein's World
of Physics
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/
This online encyclopedia of physics has entries that range from a short definition
to a longer article with links to subtopics and related terms.
American Physical Society
http://www.aps.org/index.cfm
Newsletters from individual APS units, a categorized section of links, a
career center, and discussion boards are all part of the web site for the American
Physical Society.
Institute of Physics
http://www.iop.org/
Contains a fee-based Electronic Journals service including: CoDAS Web,
offering abstracts from over 60 major journals in Condensed Matter Physics and
Materials Science; Physics Express Letters, online rapid communications from
12 important journals; PhysicsNet, a free product locator service; Physics World
Jobs; PEERS (The Physics Encyclopedia of E-mail Records), a free scientists'
e-mail directory; "Inside Physics" (the latest and breaking news from research
and industry); links to useful physics Internet sites, and a diary of forthcoming
international conferences.
Atomic Archive
http://www.atomicarchive.com/index.shtml
This searchable site presents information on the science, history, people,
and politics that helped to develop the atomic bomb and nuclear weapons. There
is also a collection of maps, videos, photographs, and animations.
Fundamental Physical
Constants from NIST
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html
The National Institute of Standards (NIST) Reference on Constants, Units,
and Uncertainty presenting CODATA internationally recommended values of
the Fundamental Physical Constants such as the Speed of Light etc. The bibliography
is searchable.
Glossary
of Nuclear Terms
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary.html
This is a very extensive glossary of nuclear terms maintained by the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Agency.
HyperPhysics
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html#hph
Created by Dr. Rod Nave, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State
University, this web site links physics terms together through concept maps.
Definitions for the terms are also included.
American
Physical Society News
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/archives/index.cfm
All issues prior to the current issue are available.
Physics News Update
http://www.aip.org/physnews/update/
Current issue plus backfiles to 1990 of the American Institute of Physics' electronically
published newsletter, Physics News Update - a digest of physics
news items arising from physics meetings, physics journals, newspapers and magazines,
and other news sources.
Activity-Based Physics
(University of Maryland Physics Education Research Group)
http://www.physics.umd.edu/perg/abp/
"This program represents a multi-university collaborative effort by
a team of educational reformers to use the outcomes of physics education research
along with flexible computer tools to promote activity-based models of physics
instruction." This site has a collection of alternative homework assignments,
problems, books and papers, talks, and links.
Physics.org (Institute
of Physics)
http://www.physics.org/index.asp
Interactive tutorials on this site help users learn about the history of physics
and physics in our daily lives. A natural language search engine allows users
to search for web pages and filter them for target age range and level of prior
physics knowledge.
Contemporary Physics Education Project
http://www.cpepweb.org/
Created by a non-profit organization of physicists and educators, this web site
features educational materials which are available online or by order.
Physics
Education Technology (University of Colorado)
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/web-pages/index.html
PhET is a free collection of simulations for educators to use in the classroom.
You can run the simulations from the web or download them to your computer.
The simulations are organized by topic or by alphabetical index, and there is
a help page with setup and troubleshooting information.
The Particle Adventure
http://particleadventure.org
This interactive educational site introduces the study of physics to students
and accompanying classroom materials.
Sport Science
http://www.exploratorium.edu/sports/index.html
An educational site on physics as it applies to sports and the movement of the
human body. There are sections on baseball, skateboarding, surfing, and hockey.
Electricity (Concepts)
Theme page (Community Learning Network)
http://www.cln.org/themes/electricity.html
"CLN's theme pages are collections of useful Internet educational resources
within a narrow curricular topic and contain links to two types of information.
Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...)
to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are links to instructional
materials (lesson plans), which will help teachers provide instruction in this
theme."
Electronetwork
http://www.electronetwork.org/
This is a multifaceted web site that has educational sections on electromagnetism
and its application to technology, art, and other sciences. The site features
artwork which has electromagnetism integrated into the design and concept, an
explanation behind the construction and principles involved in a computer hard
drive, poetry on the subject of electricity and electromagnetism, and philosophical
essays on the subject.
Interactive Plasma Physics Education Experience
(Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, funded by the Department of Energy)
http://ippex.pppl.gov/
An informational web site on plasma physics, fusion, and fusion energy. An online
flash version of a Tokamak, a fusion confinement device, is included.
CERN Document Server
http://cds.cern.ch/
From the European Organization for Nuclear Research, a searchable server of
documents on particle physics and related topics, offering bibliographic records,
half of which contain the full-text. Also includes video presentations of archived
lectures from seminars at universities and conferences.
Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center (SLAC) Virtual Visitor Center
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/Default.htm
Written for the layperson, this searchable site presents information about subatomic
particle accelerators including diagrams of their different components, their
history, applications, the method of detecting the particles, theories, cosmic
rays, and experiments being conducted at the Center as well as Nobel Prize winners
in Physics at the Center. Additionally, information about the Stanford Synchrotron
Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) is available. Included are a glossary and photos.
Breaking Through:
A Century of Physics at Berkeley
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/physics/
This site "tells the story of physics at Berkeley, 1868-1968, as compelling
a tale as there is in the history of science. Consider the initial setting -
a frontier university with ambitions as high as the sky - and consider the results:
scientists who made a machine to smash the atom, built a bomb that ended World
War II, fought to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and won 7 Nobel
Prizes in 19 years." The history is told through four sections, each with
several essays and photographs.
Center for History of Physics
(American Institute of Physics)
http://www.aip.org/history/
Several online exhibits on this site highlight important contributions to
the study of physics. The exhibits include Marie Curie & Radioactivity;
Discovery of the Electron; Global Warming; and more.
Contributions of 20th Century Women
to Physics
http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/
"An archive presenting and documenting some important and original contributions
made before 1976 by 20th century women." This archive includes an annotated
photo gallery, quotations, biographical information on women physicists, and
a listing of 500+ books and articles. You can search the archives or browse
by area of physics.
Einstein Archives Online
http://www.alberteinstein.info/
"The Einstein Archives Online Website provides the first online access
to Albert Einstein's scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by
the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."
Einstein: Image and Impact
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/
Trace Albert Einstein's life through this web page created by The Center for
History of Physics. Brief paragraphs and photographs detail important events
in the life of Einstein throughout this site. A collection of essays by historians
is also included.
Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
http://photos.aip.org/
"A collection of more than 25,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs,
engravings, and other visual materials, the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
focuses on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, but
includes many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to
physics, and in earlier times."
The Galileo Project
http://galileo.rice.edu/index.html
A project at Rice University, this web site contains a collection of biographical
information about Galileo Galilei. There is a glossary and bibliography.
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