Physics in the Yahoo! Directory

World Year of Physics 2005 (WYP 2005) (8)
Highlighting the vitality of physics and its importance in the coming millennium. Commemorates the pioneering contributions of Albert Einstein in 1905.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Physics/World_Year_of_Physics_2005__WYP_2005_
PhysLINK
Find physics news, reference materials, societies, journals, new theories, jokes, cartoons, and more.
www.physlink.com
PhysOrg.com
Features forums, a blog, and news articles covering the latest breakthroughs in physics and technology.
www.physorg.com
Fear of Physics [read review]
Offers explanations for esoteric rules of physics. Offers a physics dictionary, computer graphics and animations that visually explain physics, and a homework help section.
www.fearofphysics.com
NASA Astrophysics Data System
Abstracts on astrophysics, astronomy, instrumentation, geophysics, and physics. Plus the Los Alamos preprint server, articles, and catalogs.
adswww.harvard.edu
Physics Central
Targeted at non-scientists and created by the American Physical Society. Regular features include news, ask an expert, pictures, current research, people, and links.
www.physicscentral.com
Stephen Hawking's Universe
PBS series with Stephen Hawking and other leading cosmologists that explores questions as: Where do we come from? How did the universe begin? Why is the universe the way it is? How will it end?
www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html
Science Toys
Provides instruction in making toys for kids with common household materials to demonstrate scientific principles.
www.scitoys.com
Physics Forums
Discuss physics, cosmology, thermodynamics, and mathematics.
www.physicsforums.com
Physics Classroom, The
Physics tutorial for high school students covering Newton's Laws, energy and power, waves, light, and more.
www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/BBoard.html
Sam Barros' PowerLabs
Includes plans, diagrams, schematics, and videos of several high voltage devices including tesla coils, electromagnetic weapons, and other practical experiments.
www.powerlabs.org
eqndb
Offers a database of images and descriptions for physics I and II equations searchable by keyword or symbol.
www.eqndb.com
www.physik.de
Information on physics, mostly German but with international links. Things of public interest are covered in detail.
www.physik.de
Cosmic Variance
Physicists and astrophysicists group blog discussing science, art, politics, culture, technology, academia, and miscellaneous trivia.
cosmicvariance.com
Physics 2000
An interactive journey through modern physics.
www.Colorado.EDU/physics/2000
Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN)
Project pursuing the creation of Petascale Virtual Data Grids (PVDG) for the data computational needs of a community of thousands of scientists worldwide.
www.griphyn.org
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics [read review]
Discusses how movie scenes disregard the laws of physics.
www.intuitor.com/moviephysics
Kung Fu Science [read review]
An Einstein Year Project that pairs up a physicist and a Kung Fu expert.
www.kungfuscience.org
Physics Applets
Interactive Java curriculum modules from the University of Oregon Physics department. Topics include mechanics, energy, thermodynamics, and astrophysics.
jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab
Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
Definitions of terms from the world of physics. Physics encyclopedia introducing readers to astrophysics, electromagnetism, fluid mechanics, optics, states of mater, thermodynamics, and other related concepts.
scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics