Physics News

• Physics_News_from_APS

Reference

• Fundamental Physical Constants: Germany (Berlin) and US (NIST) - take your choice.
• The Physics FAQ gives answers to Frequently Asked Questions in physics.
• The Relativity_FAQ gives answers to Frequently Asked Questions about relativity.
• The Acoustics_FAQ answers Frequently Asked Questions in the field of acoustics
• Periodic table

History

• A chronology of the history of physics, by Phil Gibbs.
• History of particle physics from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
• A list of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics and information about them.
• Information about the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Sites with images and photos of physicists and mathematicians: AIP Harry_Nelson - Germany
• Images of Archimedes - Becquerel - Bethe - Bohr_(R)_and_Sommerfeld_(L) - Boltzmann - Born - Boyle - Carnot - Clausius - Copernicus - Crookes - Curie - Einstein - Faraday - Fermi - Feynman - Franklin - Galileo - Gauss - Gibb - Hawking - Heisenberg - Helmholtz - Huygens - Joule - Kepler - Kirchhoff - Lagrange - Landau - Maxwell - Mayer - Meitner - Newton - Noether - Oersted - Planck - Rayleigh - Rutherford - Schrodinger - Shockley_-_Bardeen_-_Brattain - Tesla - Volta - Wu
• Information about John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor of the electronic digital computer.

Mechanics

• Superball collisions
• Bubbles - from San Francisco's Exploratorium.
• Soap_Films_Made_Easy - from Maarten Rutgers at University of Pittsburgh

Oscillations, Wave Motion and Sound

Thermal Physics

• Lighting a grill in 3 seconds with liquid oxygen - don't try this in your lab.

Electromagnetic Theory

• Information about the electromagnetic_spectrum.

Modern Physics

• Chart of the Nuclides - nice chart which can be enlarged, with lots of data on individual nuclides
• A general introduction to elementary particle physics.
• Chart of the Standard Model of the Fundamental Particles and Interactions: Medium size - Large size - Components
• The Particle Adventure (an interactive tour of the Standard Model).
• Information about the physics of fusion.

Astronomy

• NASA has a well-organized photo gallery of astronomical and other photos which are generally not copyrighted; interesting text information is often included. Examples are sites on Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Small_bodies
• Index to Hubble Space Telescope pictures

Teaching Physics

• AAPT Physical Science Resource Center
• Iowa State University:
  • Physics Instructional Server
  • Introductory courses (algebra-based): Physics 111 and Physics 112
  • Introductory courses (calculus-based): Physics 221 and Physics 222
• Physics for non-scientists: Illinois
• Introductory calculus-based physics at other schools: Illinois - Rice_University
• Other courses: Classical_Mechanics_(Mount_Allison_University,_Canada) - Intermediate_Mechanics_and_Relativity_(Illinois) - Physics_and_Psychophysics_of_Music_(Australia) - Quantum_Mechanics_(Illinois)
• Links to physics courses at many institutions.
• Lecture demonstration sites: - University_of_Arkansas - Boston_University - Brown_University - California_-_Berkeley - University_of_Guelph - University_of_Maryland - University_of_North_Carolina - North_Carolina_State_University - University_of_Oregon - California_State_University_at_Pomona - University_of_Texas_at_Austin - University_of_Victoria - Virginia_Tech - Wake_Forest_University - University_of_Washington - University_of_Wisconsin
• Physics demonstration bibliography from PIRA.

Organizations and Journals

• Organizations: American Association of Physics Teachers - American Institute of Physics - American Physical Society - International_Institute_of_Theoretical_and_Applied_Physics_(Ames,_Iowa)
• Journals: The American_Journal_of_Physics - High-Tc_Update - Science

Newsgroups

Physics Departments

Miscellaneous

• "Physics_Around_the_World"
• Astronomy_Links
• Physics_Humor
• Alan Sokal's famous hoax played on the editors of Social Text