Some Interesting Physics Links I am always on the lookout for interesting links to include on this page, so return here frequently. If you happen to run across a page you think worthy of inclusion, or if you discover that one of these links is no longer active, please let me know.
Useful Demonstrations and Tutorials
Powers of Ten	View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
Waves on a string	Simulate waves on a string. Change amplitude, frequency, string tension, damping. This site will give you a terrific feel for traveling and standing waves on a string.
ExploreScience.com	Interesting animations illustrating important physics concepts. Needs a ShockWave plugin.
Modern Physics
Eistein Light	This sight has several film clips (about a minute each) that use demonstrations and animations to give overviews to Galilean relativity, electromagnetism, the apparent inconsistency between them, Einstein relativiy, time dilation and length contraction, E=mc^2 and beyond relativity. But for those who have questions and who want to go deeper and further, there are dozens of supporting pages, at levels with or without mathematics.
The Particle Adventure	An interactive tour of particle physics for everyone. The basics of theory and experiment: what we know and don't know.
Particle Physics Education Sites	A page full of interesting links concerning particle physics.
Big Bang Science	Approaches particle physics starting from the theoretical origin of the universe.
Physics 2000	An interactive journey that touches on quantum physics.
CERN Courier	Latest news of Particle Physics
Fermilab	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Virtual Visitor Center of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center	SLAC is just down Highway 280 from Skyline and is a world-class research institution. Scientist working there have won several Nobel Prizes.
Space Exploration
Hubble Space Telescope	All the latest results from one of the most successful scientific instruments of all time.
Astronomy Picture of the Day	Wonderful images and clear descriptions of all types of astronomical objects.
NASA	What's new at NASA?
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)	JPL, at CalTech in Pasadena, is one of the most important space exploration sites you can visit.
History
A Gallery of Electromagnetic Personalities	Biographical sketches of numerous physicists involved in the development of electromagnetism. Includes information on Coulomb, Fourier, Ohm, Gauss, Faraday, Kelvin, Joule, Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, Marconi, Einstein, and others, as well as pictures and brief descriptions of historically important laboratory instruments and inventions.
Nobel Laureates in Physics: 1901 - Present
Richard Feynman	A site dedicated to Richard Feynman, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the twentieth century.
Albert Einstein Online	Everything you ever wanted to know about one of the world's foremost physicists.
Miscellaneous
Museum of Unworkable Devices	An interesting site exploring man's unending, but useless, quest for perpetual motion.
Physics Central	A web site maintained by the American Physical Society."The American Physical Society represents some 42,000 physicists, and most of our work centers on scientific meetings and publications-the primary ways that physicists communicate with each other. With Physics Central, we communicate the excitement and importance of physics to everyone. We invite you to visit our site every week to find out how physics is part of your world. We'll answer your questions on how things work and keep you informed with daily updates on physics in the news. We'll describe the latest research and the people who are doing it and, if you want more, where to go on the web."
Fermi Problems	Judicious approximations and order of magnitude estimates are things that play an important role in a physicist's approach to real-world problems. This is a short essay on what it's all about, and includes a link to the University of Maryland Fermi Problem Site.
Exploranet	Online exhibits from the popular Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco.
WebElements	Detailed technical and educational resource on the periodic table.