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Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST - http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html
The values of the fundamental physical constants provided at this site are recommended for international use by CODATA and are the latest available. |
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World Year of Physics 2005 - http://www.physics2005.org/
Plans to bring the excitement of physics to the public and inspire a new generation of scientists. Includes information about projects, events and Einstein, sources for teachers, downloads, international links and press room. |
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Communities for Physics and Astronomy Digital Resources in Education (comPADRE) - http://www.compadre.org/
A project to create well organized, digital collections of high quality educational materials in physics and astronomy. ComPADRE consists of focused collections of materials for specific courses or serving specific constituencies, with connections to a wide range of online digital resources including curricular materials, digital libraries, and online journals, user communities that participate in the development and operation of these collections. |
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Physics Central - http://www.physicscentral.org/
The outreach site of the members of The American Physical Society. Find out how physics is part of your world, ask questions on how things work, see physics in pictures, get updates on physics in the news, read about research and the people who are doing it and, if you want more, recommended links. |
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QuarkNet - http://quarknet.fnal.gov/
Supports centers at 60 universities and laboratories that are participants in the collider experiments at CERN in Switzerland and at Fermilab in Illinois. Physicists will mentor and collaborate with high school teachers. Stipends are provided to the teachers who participate. |
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Professor Stephen Hawking Online - http://www.hawking.org.uk/
Biographical, educational, and scholarly. Also includes a bit of fun (did you know he was on The Simpsons TV show?) |
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MIT OpenCourseWare - Physics - http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/
Undergraduate and graduate courses available for noncredit study and review. Materials provided may include syllabi, reading assignments, videotaped lectures, problem sets with solutions, lecture notes, and exams with solutions. |
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How Everything Works - http://www.howeverythingworks.org/
A service providing answers to questions about physics, science, and how things in the world around us work. Companion to the book by Louis Bloomfield called How Things Work. |
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How Things Work - http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/
A service providing answers to questions about physics, science, and how things in the world around us work. Companion to the book by the same name. |
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Society of Physics Students (SPS) - http://www.spsnational.org/
Complete set of information for members of any level of SPS. Scholarships and awards, news, activities, staff, structure, online forms, student resources, and links to significant physics sites. |
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Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP) - http://www.cpepweb.org/
A non-profit organization of teachers, educators, and physicists; at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. |
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The Physics Encyclopedia - http://members.tripod.com/~IgorIvanov/physics/
This site provides exhaustive, comprehensive, carefully selected and structured lists on Internet physics resources. |
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Web Physics Project - http://webphysics.davidson.edu/
A flexible low budget outlet for small volume, high quality, HTML-based curricular material. It provides a forum for physics educators to exchange curriculum ideas and resources that make use of web technology (primarily public domain material), and provides a medium for the dissemination of student work. |
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Dropping in a Microgravity Environment (DIME) - http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/DIME.html
NASA high-school and middle school student team science competition. Teams build microgravity experiments for a NASA drop tower. |
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Interactive Textbook - http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/courses/gladney/mathphys/Contents.html
College freshman-level physics textbook online in several different formats, notably a java-interactive format. |
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Open Source Physics - http://www.compadre.org/osp/
The OSP project seeks to create and distribute curricular material for physics computation and physics education at all levels. |
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HSC Physics - http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/hsc/
School of Physics, University of New South Wales. Details about professional development workshops for physics teachers intended to provide background and advice on the Stage 6 HSC syllabus. Some resources related to this workshop are found on the site. |
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West Point Bridge Design Contest - http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/
Bridge design contest (using specialized software). U.S. students age 13 through grade 12 are eligible for prizes. Anyone else may enter the Open Competition. Overview, rules, resources, software download and FAQ. |
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Intuitor - Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics - http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/
Reviews and rates Hollywood movies for bad physics content. |
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Kenny Felder's Math and Physics Help Page - http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/kenny/home.html
A collection of papers written to explain various concepts in math and physics, as well as papers generously donated by other people. |
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Computer Simulation Methods - http://sip.clarku.edu/
A web site devoted to faculty and students using computer simulation techniques as a method of discovery in physics. This is a companion site to a textbook, but provides content from other sources as well. |
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The World of Beams (Both Energy and Particle) - http://bc1.lbl.gov/CBP_pages/educational/WoB/home.htm
Explores the nature of particle beams, laser beams, and related physics topics. |
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Spacetime Wrinkles - http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/NumRelHome.html
Major advances in computation are only now enabling scientists to simulate how black holes form, evolve, and interact. Learn about relativity and its predictions through text and video files at this site. |
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Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics - http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/commerrs/
This page describes the errors seen most frequently in undergraduate mathematics, the likely causes of those errors, and their remedies. Avoid these errors in order to improve in any math-intensive course, including physics. |
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Innovations in Undergraduate Physics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) - http://research.physics.uiuc.edu/PER/Course_Revisions.html
Several recent developments have stimulated a major revitalization of UIUC's introductory physics curriculum. Here are the details. Also includes references, previous presentations, and course outlines. |
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Glass: Liquid or Solid - Science vs. an Urban Legend - http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C01/C01Links/www.ualberta.ca/~bderksen/florin.html
Addressing the widespread misconception according to which glass is a liquid. |
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The Motion Mountain Physics Text - http://motionmountain.dse.nl/
A free physics textbook on the introductory physics course level, written to be surprising, entertaining, and thought-provoking. Chapters are downloadable pdf files. |
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Physics Reference - http://www.alcyone.com/max/reference/physics/index.html
Physics symbols, constants, and SI units, prefixes and rules. |
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How to Study Physics - http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/chapman.htm
A University of Texas classic, written before the web was around, but now revised and web-ready. |
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http://www.wku.edu/pads/ - http://www.wku.edu/pads/
PADs are interactive Java applets that provide a wide range of ways to represent data and evaluate the correctness of those representations. This site provides exercises and resources on their use. |
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Challenges In Teaching and Learning Introductory Physics - http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~airboy/challenge.html
Addresses the troubles presented in introductory physics courses taken by students in their first two years of college. |
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Thermal and Statistical Physics Curriculum Development Project - http://stp.clarku.edu/
Includes an introduction to the project and its conferences, related papers and links, and some Java applets. |
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Andes Physics Tutor - http://www.andestutor.org/
Andes is an intelligent tutoring system which teaches students how to solve physics problems. It provides a complete set of homework problems for an introductory college physics course or a high school AP physics course. |
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NSTA - Position Statement on Laboratory Science - http://www.nsta.org/about/positions/laboratory.aspx
Since the laboratory experience is of critical importance in the process of enhancing students' cognitive and affective understanding of science, the National Science Teachers Association makes the following recommendations. |
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Physics Virtual Bookshelf - http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/All.html
A collection mostly of University of Toronto physics professor David M. Harrison's various presentations and course materials. |
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Physics, the Neglected Science - http://www.intuitor.com/physics/
Pages to help increase awareness about the value of physics and to lend support to high school physics students, teachers, and parents. |
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Science-Pseudoscience - http://www.chem1.com/chemed/flimflam.shtml
Science, non-science and pseudoscience: a set of lessons to teach students to define and differentiate the three. |
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The Physics of Learning - http://icn2.umeche.maine.edu/instruments/PHYSLRNR.html
Extending a physics analogy to teaching and learning creates a rich set of terms and relationships that are already familiar to scientists. This paper defines those terms, suggests methods for quantifying those terms and thus provides teachers with a method for optimizing student learning. |
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Exploring Physics in Cyberspace - http://epic.physics.missouri.edu/html/aboutprgm.htm
This site describes several tested extracurricular programs geared to introducing hands-on interactive physics activities for K-12 students. Supported by the National Science Foundation. |
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Interactive Physics Scenarios by A. John Mallinckrodt - http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm/myweb/index.ip.html
A collection of intermediate and advanced level modules in mechanics, gravitation, thermodynamics, and electrostatics for use with the Interactive Physics software distributed by MSC Working Knowledge. |
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Study Help Zone - http://studyhelpzone.com
Offers study support for physics and chemistry students. Includes online tutoring, physics help and problems, chemistry help, and advice for students sitting examinations. |
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Physics Handbook.com - http://www.physicshandbook.com/
Provides an easy to use online physics textbook including laws, tables, experiments, a quiz and videos. |
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The Science of the Bicycle - http://www.science.uva.nl/research/amstel/bicycle/
Divided in two parts. The first is a theory study and the second is a report of the experiment. This study was done as a part of The Bicycle Project from September till December 1999. The research was done at the Kansas State University's department of physics. |
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New Physics Teacher Project - http://earthfuture.tripod.com/mp/adviceproject.html
Advice for the first year physics teacher gathered from interviews with expert physics educators. |
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Physics at Merton College - http://www.lokon.demon.co.uk/
Matters related to the AS-level and A-level physics courses. The material covers topics in physics and its related mathematics and will supplement one's normal classwork. |
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Physics Pointers - http://physicspointers.com/
Physics reading guides, links to physics websites, teaching tips, and physics activities. |
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Physics Comics - http://www.bmts.com/~stoeckli/
Comics-style lessons in physics fundamentals. Topics include motion, forces, vectors, work and energy, and impulse and momentum. |
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Cartoons and Movies - http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~fajans/Teaching/cartoons/
Some diagrams and movies illustrating some otherwise abstract electrical principles. |
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Physical Science for Nonscientists - Physics 1020 (2nd Semester) - http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phys1020/phys1020_sp05/
Course website at University of Colorado. Includes lecture notes in pdf format. |
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A Prelude to the Study of Physics - http://www.winbeam.com/~trebor/prelude.html
A paper first published in Quantum Vol 7 No 2, pg. 45, Nov/Dec 1996. |
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Physics Teacher Education Program - http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/pte/
Information on a BSc degree in physics teaching from Illinois State University. |
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Institute of Physics (IOP) - Teaching Physics in Schools and Colleges - http://www.iop.org/activity/outreach/Resources/file_5978.pdf
A website aimed at those with an interest in the teaching and learning of physics in schools and colleges. The site provides visitors with information about the current activities of the IOP education department including details of forthcoming events, news about the institute's latest curriculum development initiatives as well as providing access to a range of resources. |
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Super Physics - http://superphysics.netfirms.com
Provides educational articles about physics including such topics as relativity, quantum theory and lasers as well as general physics. |
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The Evil Tutor's Guide: Graphs and Figures - http://www.eviltutor.com
An amusing, yet sincere, look at where students go wrong when producing scientific graphs for school, college and degree level work. |
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The Elements of Machines - http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html
Some simple machines, explained, described and illustrated. |