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| Bi monthly newsletter that summarises information on resources, national initiatives, outreach programs, grants, professional development opportunities, and publications related to physics and science education. | |
| Series of questions and answers and the opportunity for users to pose physics related questions such as how do geysers work, how does gravity bend visible light and what makes an aeroplane fly? | ||
| Introductory guide to physics including interactive graphics. Includes sections on atomic experiments and the legacy of Einstein. | ||
| Series of university level lecture notes on special relativity, photons, atoms, particles and waves, Schrodinger's Equation, electron atoms and nuclear physics. | ||
| Information about the science of sports such as baseball, cycling, skateboarding, and hockey. Covers topics including the speed and curvature of baseballs, the width of bicycle tyres, executing jumps on skateboards, the mechanics involved in ice skating, and why balls bounce. | ||
| An introduction to the physics principles governing flight, including Newton's laws of motion and force, Bernoulli's Principle of Pressure, and vectors, forces, and moments. Also addresses topics such as lift and drag coefficients, load factor, and forces acting on an aeroplane. | ||
| Biographical information about Richard Feynman, winner of the 1965 Nobel prize for physics and renowned physics teacher and drummer, for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics. He participated in the construction of the first atomic bombs at Los Alamos, and was a member of the Rogers Commission which investigated the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle in 1986. Contains a summary of Feynman's work, plus quotations, anecdotes, pictures and sound clips. | ||
| The journal publishes papers that meet the needs and intellectual interests of college and university physics teachers and students. Publications are searchable from 1975, however subscription is required for full text retrieval. | ||
| The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not for-profit membership corporation. It aims to promote the advancement and diffusion of physics though education and current awareness. | ||
| Review articles and physics tutorials in an encyclopaedic format. | ||
| Full text papers written by prominent American physicists, based on the Bicentennial Commemorative Volume of The American Physical Society in 1976. Features work by Benjamin Franklin, Henry Augustus Rowland, Joseph Henry, and Arthur Holly Compton. Papers are offered as scanned images and as PDF files. | ||
| Set of peer reviewed journals in the broad area of physics, with full text access available to members of subscribing institutions. Tables of contents and the full text of featured articles are freely available to all. The electronic journals offer full text with mathematics and graphics, and allow searching, browsing and printing. Some titles, eg Nanotechnology, offer multimedia features such as videos of molecular simulations. | ||
| An international effort to create a unified resource for physics and closely related natural sciences. Aimed not only at scientists, but also at the wider community. It is a free, public, non commercial service which provides information on physics events, access to discussion lists, software, research information, preprints, journals, and job information. | ||
| A set of interactive physics tools and games designed to integrate research and education, and to promote understanding of mechanics, astrophysics, thermodynamics, energy, and environment. | ||
| Interactive online program that solves mathematical problems. Provides solutions to problems involving polynomials, quadratic equations, radical expressions, calculus and trigonometry, complete with the steps taken to arrive at the answer. Free software for help with algebra is available for downloading. | ||
| Provides a timeline of notable developments in the physical sciences during the 20th century. Information is keyword searchable, or browsable by topic. | ||
| Resource aimed at aimed at science students, about the fundamental principles of scientific knowledge, and those branches of science that have their basis in the principles of physics and chemistry. Covers measurement, kinematics and graphing, dynamics, work, power and energy, kinetic theory, temperature, and heat, waves, atomic and nuclear physics. | ||
| Electronic book providing information on basic physics, the solar system, the sun, measuring the universe, the nature of stars and galaxies, and theories on origins and evolution. Also features a glossary of astronomical terms, acronyms, diagrams, photographs, and a periodic table of the elements. | ||
| Interactive demonstration of a fluoroscope together with a basic explanation of Computed Axial Tomography (CAT scans) and an animated introduction to electromagnetic radiation, covering electric force fields, vibrating charges and electromagnetic waves. | ||
| Searchable glossary and encyclopaedia of physics terms. | ||
| Series of university level lecture notes on special relativity, photons, atoms, particles and waves, Schrodinger's Equation, electron atoms and nuclear physics. | ||
| Summary of units of measurements used worldwide, with some historical measurements. The units and their explanations can be accessed via category, for example, length, area, volume, mass, density, power, pressure, speed, energy, and force, or via an alphabetical list. There is also a discussion of the UK Imperial system, and metrication in the UK and USA. | ||
| Lists major events and discoveries relating to the structure of matter, ranging from the Greek era to the present day and including links to biographies of many of the scientists involved. | ||
| A non profit organisation of teachers, educators, and physicists located around the world. CPEP materials (charts, software, text, web resources) present the current understanding of the fundamental nature of matter and energy, incorporating the major research findings of recent years. | ||
| Links to departments of physics in universities in Europe. | ||
| The Institute of Physics (IOP) is both a learned society and professional body and has over 20000 members throughout the world. The objectives of the Institute are to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and education in the science of physics, pure and applied. | ||
| Links to departments of physics in US universities. | ||
| Extensive collection of links to biographies, papers, quotations and pictures of Albert Einstein. | ||
| Explores the history of studies into electricity, looking in particular at lightning, tesla coils, Franklin's kite, and the Van de Graaff generator, with an animation of how it works. Features a safety quiz, resources for teachers, and a gallery of videos and pictures. | ||
| Course covering computational techniques used in modern physics. Includes sections on ordinary and partial differential equations, matrix methods, Monte Carlo methods, and computer algebra. Intended for students familiar with basic programming. | ||
| Online general physics book, with chapters on mechanics, fluids, electricity, magnetism, atomic physics, nuclear physics, thermodynamics, wave physics, symbols and abbreviations and biophysical chronology. | ||
| Links to departments of physics in universities worldwide. | ||
| Links to departments of physics in UK universities. | ||
| Reference document listing symbols, values, and units relating to physical constants, such as speed of light in vacuum, planck mass, and nuclear magneton. | ||
| Lecture notes exploring the impact of Galileo and Einstein on our understanding of physics. Explains concepts and charts the progress of scientific thought from the time of the early Greeks. | ||
| A guide to the physics of light covering topics such as wavelengths, the speed of light, colour, lenses, lasers, mirrors, diffraction, reflection and refraction, and solar power. Available in English and Polish. | ||
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