Some Interesting Physics Links
(ripped off from Paul Goodman)
Physics as a Career
- Physics is for
You
- The site to visit if you are thinking about physics as a
career, put together by the American Institute of Physics.
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- Talk
with a Physicist
- An archive of interesting autobiographies by working
physicists in a wide range of fields. It also includes questions
posed to the physicists by students and others interested in
physics as a career, and the replies to those questions. (May not
be available yet. Keep checking back.)
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- American Institute of
Physics and the American
Physical Society
- These two links to the major physics-related organizations
have information about careers, publications and the latest
physics news from around the globe.
Modern Physics
- The Particle Adventure
- An interactive tour of the world of particle physics - both
what we know and DON'T know.
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- Time
Travel in Flatland?
- Animated tutorial on special and general relativity. Covers
the concepts of space-time, light cones, causality, relativistic
velocity addition, the Lorentz transformations, the space-time
metric, and black holes. Emphasizes the possibility of time travel
in the context of relativity theory. Includes formatted equations,
detailed pictures, and animated graphics
Space Exploration
- Hubble Space Telescope
- All the latest results from one of the most successful
scientific instruments of all time.
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- Astronomy
Picture of the Day
- Wonderful images and clear descriptions of all types of
astronomical objects.
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- NASA
- What's new at NASA?
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL)
- JPL, at CalTech in Pasadena, is one of the most important
space exploration sites you can visit.
History
- AIP Center for History
of Physics
- A history of physics with biographies and pictures of
historical scientists
- 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.
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- Nobel
Laureates in Physics: 1901 - 1998
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- Richard
Feynman
- Anecdotes about the enfant terrible of twentieth century
theoretical physics.
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Miscellaneous
- 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.
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- Bad
Science
- A web page devoted to correcting misinformation passed down
from text book to text book. (This page is not devoted to
debunking pseudo-science.)
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- Exploranet
- Online exhibits from the popular Exploratorium science museum
in San Francisco.
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- WebElements
- Detailed technical and educational resource on the periodic
table.
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