- 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_
- PhysOrg.com
Features forums, a blog, and news articles covering the latest breakthroughs in physics and technology.
www.physorg.com
- PhysLINK
Find physics news, reference materials, societies, journals, new theories, jokes, cartoons, and more.
www.physlink.com
- Fear of Physics
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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
- 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
- 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 Forums
Discuss physics, cosmology, thermodynamics, and mathematics.
www.physicsforums.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
- Cosmic Variance
Physicists and astrophysicists group blog discussing science, art, politics, culture, technology, academia, and miscellaneous trivia.
cosmicvariance.com
- Science Toys
Provides instruction in making toys for kids with common household materials to demonstrate scientific principles.
www.scitoys.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
- www.physik.de
Information on physics, mostly German but with international links. Things of public interest are covered in detail.
www.physik.de
- 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
- 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
- Physics 2000
An interactive journey through modern physics.
www.Colorado.EDU/physics/2000
- Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
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Discusses how movie scenes disregard the laws of physics.
www.intuitor.com/moviephysics
- Kung Fu Science
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An Einstein Year Project that pairs up a physicist and a Kung Fu expert.
www.kungfuscience.org
- FAQ - Usenet Physics
Answers to questions discussed often in physics newsgroups, from particle and nuclear physics to relativity and cosmology.
math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics
- Physics Applets
Interactive Java curriculum modules from the University of Oregon Physics department. Topics include mechanics, energy, thermodynamics, and astrophysics.
jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab
- Cool Physics Movies
Videos of flying at near the speed of light, a quantum mechanical bouncing ball, and a jet breaking the sound barrier.
faculty.rmwc.edu/tmichalik/physmov.htm
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