Links and Resources
The following resources should be useful to Physics students. They are not linked to any particular course.
- Physics
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- NIST Fundamental Physical Constants
- NIST Physical Reference Data
- TimeandDate: View of the night sky, sun/moon rise/set times, etc., from anywhere in the world.
- The Particle Adventure: A tour of particle physics from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- A Walk Through Time - The Evolution of Time Measurement through the Ages
- HyperPhysics: Extensive database of concepts in physics.
- PhysLink: Reference and Q&A on Physics topics.
- Physics Questions/Problems: Old page containing lots of interesting problems in physics.
- Molecular Expressions: Optical Microscopy Primer
- Molecular Expressions: Electricity & Magnetism Introduction
- The Science of Boiling an Egg
- PhET Interactive Simulations: Large number of interactive simulations in Physics and other topics.
- Entropy on the World Wide Web: Articles about entropy in different contexts.
- Superconductor Information for the Beginner
- The Basics of MRI: Book by Joseph P. Hornak
- Superstrings! Introduction to superstring theory.
- Mathematics
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- Core Mathematics for Physics: Physics students should be proficient in all these concepts.
- Calculus on the Web: A series of interactive modules for learning and practicing calculus.
- The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
- PrimePages: Research on prime numbers.
- Chaos at Maryland: A good site to start from if you have an interest in chaos.
- Sprott's Fractal Gallery: Images of fractals, chaos, strange attractors, Julia sets and more.
- EULER Project: Search engine for mathematical publications.
- Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics: Online statistical calculators and simulators, from Rice University.
- StatPages.net: Index of webpages for doing statistical calculations.
- A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis
- Chemistry
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- Atomic Line List: Over 900,000 spectroscopic lines, from the University of Kentucky.
- NIST Elemental Data List: Physical properties of the elements.
- Periodic Table: Interactive tool from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- Biography and history
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- Timeline of Fundamental Physics Discoveries (Wikipedia)
- MacTutor: Excellent history of Maths with biographies, pictures, and much more.
- Portrait gallery of famous physicists: Emphasis on the 20th century.
- 4000 Years of Women in Science: Biographies of female scientists, mainly pre 20th century.
- Biographies of Women Mathematicians
- AdultLearn: Women in Science
- Master's in Data Science: Interviews with five women data scientists
- Nobel Foundation: List of all winners, acceptance speeches, biographies, press releases.
- Internet History of Science Sourcebook: Original texts that have impacted scientific ideas.
- Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
- Find a Grave: Contains notable scientists among a very extensive database.
- Research
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- arXiv: Pre-print server for journal articles.
- Selected Classic papers from the History of Chemistry: Much of relevance to Physics too.
- Institutions
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- Institute of Physics: The professional body for physics in the UK.
- American Institute of Physics: The professional body for physics in the USA.
- Royal Astronomical Society: The professional body for astronomy in the UK.
- Royal Meteorological Society: The professional body for meteorology in the UK.
- UK Research and Innovation: National research funding body for the UK
- American Physical Society
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
- Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society
- CERN: Large Hadron Collider
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Diamond Light Source
- UK Space Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- European Space Agency
- Met Office
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- Popular publications