Physics: Additional Web Resources

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's collection of science podcasts.

The resource allows users to design their own roller coaster, and along the way they will learn about the laws of gravity, pendulums, and kinetic energy. This resource contains interactive graphics and a glossary terms.

Self-guided lesson by Mish Denlinger, Exploratorium: The Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception, shows what auroras look like and explains how they are created.

The Calculator Pad represents the effort of The Physics Classroom website to provide students with practice solving physics word problems. Approximately 30 problems of varying degree of difficulty are provided for each topic. Answers can be easily viewed by clicking a button. And an audio file (mp3 format) is provided which explains the solution to the problem in great detail.

This site contains information women physicists. Each biography page contains a photograph of the physicist, her major contributions and publications, honors, employment, education, additional information, and recommended reading.

All about infrared astronomy, includes histrory, explanations, images, and videos.

This site is part of the World of Science , an online encyclopedia created by Eric Weisstein, a Ph.D. in planetary science, "with assistance from the physics and internet communities."

The physics help and lessons provided are written for physics students at the high school and introductory college level. Most of the physics lessons are designed to be projected to a class and can be used by a teacher to demonstrate many physics concepts.

These online exhibits thoroughly cover many topics.

HyperPhysics is an exploration environment for concepts in physics which employs concept maps and other linking strategies to facilitate smooth navigation. For the most part, it is laid out in small segments or "cards", true to its original development in HyperCard. The entire environment is interconnected with thousands of links, reminiscent of a neural network.

This site consists of an overview of Kepler’s laws, with examples, applications, problems and related history.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology site provides access to the latest values for physical constants. You can search by name, or or display an alphabetical list by category.

This website serves as a clearinghouse of high-quality physics applets that can be used in a variety of settings. Includes informatiuon on mechanics, waves, properties of heat and matter, and optics.

Physics Central communicates the excitement and importance of physics to its readers. Part of the American Physical Society site.

The site contains Flash animations that illustrate principles in such categories as optics, sound waves, vectors, and relativity.

Weekly physics problems posted by Dr. Anton B. Vorontsov of the Montana State University Department of Physics.

"Walter F. Smith, Associate Professor of Physics, Haverford College, believes "songs about physics can help students to remember critical concepts and formulas, but perhaps more importantly they communicate the lesson that physics can be fun."

A collection of more than 600 websites that you can search or browse to explore physics on your own. It's also a biweekly online magazine, with archives containing more than 55 selected physics images.

Concise arrangement of links to companies, educational institutions, reference sources, exhibits, organizations, media.

ScienceHack indexes any science videos from YouTube and anywhere else they can find them and packages them fairly cleanly in one spot.

"This guide offers a systematic approach to the wide variety of published biographical information on men and women of science and technology. Both historical and contemporary scientists are covered, with emphasis on Americans."

Site is the full-text digital archive of Clifford Glenwood Shull, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics. Collection allows users to explore Shull's papers, correspondence, teaching materials, and other items related to his work.

International in scope, this resource from the University of California at Los Angeles provides information on over 50 female physicists. You can search by an individual's name or by a specific area of physics.

Visitors to this digital collection created by The University of Chicago Library can learn about Fermi through a selection of materials, including hand-written notes, papers, and images.

This page, maintained by D. Mark Manley, lists physicists of the classical period and Nobel Laureates. There is a brief description of each and a link to further information.

Lists Nobel laureates and provides brief biographical entries with a description of the work that earned the Nobel Prize.

Includes a timeline and biographical information on physicists of the African Diaspora (African American, West Indian, etc.) with photographs and information on contemporary physicists.

Includes videos, quotes, photos, and selected works.