Homework help - Physics
Links to Physics news & information in July 2011
- Scientists hold anti-matter for 17 minutes: www.abc.net.au/am/
Links to Physics news & information in May 2011
- Electron acts like a perfect sphere: cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
- Gravity Probe B confirms Einstein effects: www.bbc.co.uk/news/
- Physics Hurts My Brain: blogs.msdn.com/b/cdnstudents/
- Project Tuva - Watch Richard Feynman Lecture Series: research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/
- Some black holes may be older than time: www.abc.net.au/news/
- This year's best illusion reveals a visual quirk: www.msnbc.msn.com
Recent links to resources for Physics students
- Antimatter atoms caught at last: cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
- As the bird turns - Scientists figuring out flight: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30142188/
- Atmospheric Optics: www.atoptics.co.uk
- Ballistics Calculator (Silverlight): www.winchester.com/ballistics/
- Bobsled Physics: www.livescience.com/common/media/video/
- Break of the curveball: illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
- Bring the Universe to your Classroom - WorldWide Telescope: sthompso.spaces.live.com
- Chernobyl disaster 25th anniversary (on BigPicture): www.boston.com/bigpicture/
- Collision testing on a free moving object in Silverlight: www.silverlightbuzz.com
- DaVinci on Kinect (Physics simulation from Microsoft Surface): xboxkinectfans.net
- 'Death ray' at Vegas hotel pool heats up guests: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39403349/ns/travel-news/
- Deriving the centripetal acceleration formula: blogs.msdn.com/matthew_van_eerde/
- Dodging the arrow of time?: cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
- Downwind faster than the wind - Blackbird sets a record: blog.makezine.com
- Double-slit experiment: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
- Einstein's 'Biggest Blunder' Turns Out to Be Right: www.livescience.com/space/
- Farseer Games - Play Physics Games Online: www.farseergames.com
- Funky Physics with Microsoft Surface: blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/
- Game Expands the Concept of Dark Energy for Mass Effect: www.scientificamerican.com
- Genesis - Microsoft 3D Surface Application: vimeo.com/3984418
- Happy Birthday, Mr. Einstein: web.visionlearning.com/events/Einstein_Mar14_2004.htm
- How to spot quantum quackery: cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
- Human life is subject to the universal laws of physics (Humour): niemann.blogs.nytimes.com
- If there's a meltdown, then what? (Japan earthquake March 2011): cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
- Is the grand design within our grasp?: cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
- It Really is Rocket Science: www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/
- It's official - Heaviest antimatter found: cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
- Lilac Chaser Optical Illusion: jobijoy.blogspot.com
- Mass Effect makes physics cool: www.gamertell.com
- Materials breakthrough wins Nobel Prize for Physics: www.bbc.co.uk/news/
- Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's life: rs.onlineculture.co.uk/silverlight/
- Microsoft Surface Physics Demos - Dr Dave: drdave.co.uk/blog/
- Mission - 10 000 Rockets: 10000rockets.com
- Newton - combining celestial and terrestrial mechanics: blogs.msdn.com/matthew_van_eerde/
- Physics e-Learning Portal - Envisioning: blogs.msdn.com/risman/
- Physics Helper for Siverlight - Demo: www.andybeaulieu.com/silverlight/4.0/physicshelper4/
- Physicists burst bubble mystery: news.bbc.co.uk
- Project Tuva: research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/
- Project Tuva – a new way to teach and learn (Richard Feynman lectures): blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/
- Proton’s smaller size surprises scientists: www.msnbc.msn.com
- Quantum leap towards computer of the future: www.abc.net.au/news/stories/
- Ready for some football science?: cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
- Science of High Heels - How Physics Keeps Women From Falling Down: www.foxnews.com/scitech/
- Scrunched-up dimensions untangled (Physics): cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
- Silverlight gravity simulation on a dragable ball: www.silverlightbuzz.com
- Tales from the quantum frontier: cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
- US experiment hints at 'multiple God particles': news.bbc.co.uk
- Vdara Hotel Las Vegas visitor - 'Death ray' scorched hair: www.lvrj.com/news/
- Watch Dr. Richard Feynman making physics fun in Project Tuva: team.silverlight.net/
- Weird antimatter particles discovered: www.msnbc.msn.com
- WorldView-2: worldview2.digitalglobe.com
- WorldView-2 Satellite Launch: worldview2.digitalglobe.com/launch/
Older links to resources for Physics students - A to M
- 3D Stereogram Images: www.eyetricks.com/3dstereo.htm
- 30,000 volt synthetic jacket menaces Oz: www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/16/static_jacket/
- ABCs of Nuclear Science: www.lbl.gov/abc/
- About.com's Physics: physics.about.com
- About Fluorescence: www.sterlinghill.org/warren/
- Acceleration Solver: newton.umsl.edu/~run/
- Acoustics & Vibration Animations: www.gmi.edu/~drussell/Demos.html
- Acronyms of High Energy Physics: www.fnal.gov/pub/ferminews/
- Adam Spencer Eureka Contest: www.amonline.net.au/eureka/
- Aerodynamics for Students: www.aeromech.usyd.edu.au/aero/
- Aerodynamics for Students: www.ae.su.oz.au/aero/aerodyn.html
- Aerodynamics Text - Flight: 142.26.194.131/aerodynamics1/
- Air Travellers: www.omsi.edu/visit/physics/air/
- Albert Einstein Online: www.westegg.com/einstein/
- American Museum of Radio and Electricity: www.americanradiomuseum.org
- Amusement Park Teaches Physics: www.msnbc.com/local/pencilnews/97628.asp
- Art Ludwig's Sound Page: www.silcom.com/~aludwig/
- Articles on Electricity: www.eskimo.com/~billb/ele-edu.html
- Astronomy for Kids: www.kapili.com/u/universe.html
- Astrophysics for Senior Physics: outreach.atnf.csiro.au
- Atomic Lab: www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/
- Atomic Structure Timeline: www.watertown.k12.wi.us
- Australian Multimedia for Physics Students Website: www.hscphysics.edu.au
- Ball Simulation: moodhist.home.comcast.net/balls.html
- Basic Sail Theory and Concepts: www.amya.org/sailmanual/
- Best Mechanics: web.umr.edu/~bestmech/
- 'Big Bang machine' fires up: news.bbc.co.uk
- Black Hole Thermodynamics: en.wikipedia.org
- Brain Teaser from the Skiing Slopes: blogs.msdn.com/ben/
- Canon Camera Museum: www.canon.com/camera-museum/
- Causes of Colour: webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/
- Centre for Turbulence Research: www.stanford.edu/group/ctr/
- Circular Motion & Planetary Motion: www.physicsclassroom.com
- Colour Theory: www.cs.brown.edu/exploratories/
- Contemporary Physics Education Project: www.cpepweb.org
- Cool Experiments with Magnets: www.execpc.com/~rhoadley/
- Compton Effect: www.launc.tased.edu.au/online/sciences/physics/compton.html
- Compton Effect (PDF document): www.hep.fsu.edu/~wahl/phy4822/expinfo/compton/harv_compton.pdf
- Computer-generated animation of water: youtube.com
- Cosmic Distance Scale: heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/cosmic/
- Cosmic Evolution: www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/
- CSU Engine Pages: www.engr.colostate.edu/~allan/
- Discovery of the X-Ray: www.fi.edu/qa00/attic6/
- Does a boomerang thrown in space return to its pitcher?: www.newscientist.com
- Doppler Effect (Sound): www.explorelearning.com
- Doppler Shift (Red and Blue Shifts): www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/doppler.htm
- Educational Tour of Nuclear Data: t2.lanl.gov
- Einstein Archives Online: www.alberteinstein.info
- Einstein Has Left the Building: www.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/books/review/01horgan.html
- Einstein's greatest discoveries: www7.dw-world.de
- Einstein's Legacy: www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/
- Einstein's Riddle - Who Owns the Fish?: www.manbottle.com/trivia/Einstein_s_Riddle.htm
- Einstein's Theories: whyfiles.org/052einstein/
- Electricity & Magnetism - Animations, Simulations, Apps: www.phy.mtu.edu/~weidman/
- Electrified Ben: sln.fi.edu/franklin/scientst/electric.html
- Engineering & the Guitar: www.educatorscorner.com
- Exploring Ice - The Answers are Slippery: www.nytimes.com
- Exploring Planets: www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/
- Eye Tricks: www.eyetricks.com
- Fermilab - Particle Physics: www-ed.fnal.gov/hep/home.html
- Feynman Lectures on Physics: www.feynmanlectures.info
- Feynman Online: www.feynman.com
- Fine balance in the UK's electricity: news.bbc.co.uk
- First glimpse of an Orbo (Steorn's supposedly free energy machine): dispatchesfromthefuture.com
- FSInsider - Microsoft Flight Simulator: www.fsinsider.com
- Fun in the Sun Activities: hea-www.harvard.edu/scied/SUN/
- Galileo's Battle for the Heavens: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/
- Galileo Galilei: www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Galileo.html
- Galileo Project Information: nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/galileo.html
- Geometry and Physics of Wrinkling: prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v90/i7/e074302
- Getting Around The Coriolis Force: www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~dvandom/Edu/
- Getting the measure of a kilogram: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7084099.stm
- Glenbrook South Physics Home Page: www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/phys.html
- Glossary of Misunderstood Physics Terms & Concepts: www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/glossary.htm
- Glossary of Nuclear Science Terms: ie.lbl.gov/education/glossary/
- Grand Illusions: www.grand-illusions.com
- Gravity - the 'Holy Grail' of physics: news.bbc.co.uk
- Handbook of Chemistry & Physics: www.chemnetbase.com
- Hands on CERN: hands-on-cern.physto.se/hoc_v21en/
- Hard Drive Recovered from Columbia Shuttle Solves Physics Problem: www.sciam.com
- How a Boomerang Works: www.rangs.co.uk/howaboomworks.htm
- How a Fuel Cell Works: www.neahpower.com
- How does it Work???: www.soton.ac.uk/~thunder/
- How Electricity is Created: www.tampaelectric.com
- How Far Does Light Go?: www.kie.berkeley.edu/KIE/web/hf.html
- How Gyroscopes Work: www.howstuffworks.com/gyroscope.htm
- How to Focus on Tiniest of the Very Small: www.physorg.com/news69949707.html
- Hunt for the God particle at CERN: ngm.nationalgeographic.com
- Interactive Large Hadron Collider: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26562876/
- Interactive Physics Simulations: www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/web-pages/
- Kinetic City: www.kineticcity.com/
- Large Hadron Collider UK Homepage: www.lhc.ac.uk
- Left brain/right brain optical illusion: delicategeniusblog.com
- Lessons: www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/
- Lessons in Electric Circuits: www.faqs.org/docs/electric/
- Light and Matter: www.lightandmatter.com
- Light & Optics Activities: acept.la.asu.edu/PiN/act/
- Lightning Kills, Play It Safe: www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): www.hull.ac.uk/mri/lectures/
- Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity: www.aip.org/history/curie/
- Marie Curie - Radium and Radioactivity : www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/articles/curie.htm
- Magnetic Fields - History: www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Making Waves: www.livinggraphs.com/enu/products/mw/
- Mary Masterman's Spectroscopy Site: maryspectra.org
- Mass-Spring Systems with Damping: www.gmi.edu/~drussell/
- Maths and Physics Help: www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/kenny/
- Maths and Physics News and Articles (Discover Magazine): discovermagazine.com/topics/physics-math
- Microsoft Physics Illustrator for Tablet PC: www.microsoft.com/downloads/
- Mighty Optical Illusions: www.moillusions.com
- Mirror particles form new matter: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6991030.stm
- My Universe: cosmos.colorado.edu/~urquhart/
- Mystery of Antimatter: livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/
Older links to resources for Physics students - N to Z
- NASA Scientists Make Magnetic Fields Visible, Beautiful: gizmodo.com
- Navigation & Ocean Currents: www.coolclassroom.org/cool_projects/
- Neutrino Unbound: www.nu.to.infn.it
- Nobel Prize in Physics - Educational: nobelprize.org/physics/educational/
- Online Unit Converter: www.onlineconversion.com
- Operate Your Own Tokamak Reactor: ippex.pppl.gov/temp/tokamak/
- Optical Illusion - Dr Angry and Mr Smiles: www.grand-illusions.com/angryandsmiles.htm
- Optical Illusion - Rotating Snakes: www.cs.toronto.edu/~moraes/illusion.html
- Optical Illusion - Rotating Pink Dots: www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html
- Oscilloscope Fun and Games: www.waxy.org
- Rotating Pink Dots Illusion: www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html
- Optical Illusions: home.wanadoo.nl/hans.kuiper/optillus.htm
- Optical Illusions - How can this be true?: blogs.msdn.com/acoat/
- Optical Illusions That Move: www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/
- Optics for Kids: www.opticsforkids.org
- Optics for Kids: www.opticalres.com/kidoptx_f.html
- Optics Notes: www.opticsnotes.com
- Orbit Diagrams:
- Particle Physics in the UK: hepweb.rl.ac.uk/ppUK/
- Particle Physics UK: www.particlephysics.ac.uk
- Pendulum Clock & Galileo: es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/
- Penny Schweig's Site: www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/
- Phun 2D Physics Sandbox: www.phun.at
- Physicists Discover an Atomic Oddity: www.physorg.com/news10263.html
- Physicists Tackle Knotty Puzzle: www.physorg.com/news110479348.html
- physics.org: www.physics.org
- Physics as a Sound Investment: www.aip.org/success/soundinvestment/
- Physics at About.com: physics.about.com
- Physics Classroom: www.physicsclassroom.com
- Physics for Kids: www.kapili.com/m/motion.html
- Physics Help and Maths Help - Physics Forums: www.physicsforums.com
- Physics in the realm of Hollywoodland: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23943370
- Physics Museum of University of Queensland: www.physics.uq.edu.au/physics_museum/
- Physics of Racing Series: autopedia.com
- Physics & Star Trek: www.physicsguy.com/physandtrek/
- Physics Questions/Problems: star.tau.ac.il/QUIZ/
- PhysicsSongs.org: www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/
- Physics Web - Greatest Equations Ever: physicsweb.org/articles/world/17/10/2/1
- PhysLink - Physics & Astronomy Online: www.physlink.com
- Pictures of Famous Physicists: www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/portraits.html
- Planetary Orbit Exercise: www.bridgewater.edu/departments/physics/
- Plumbing Systems: www.uvi.edu/Physics/SCI3xxWeb/Plumbing/
- Principles of Flight: www.pilotsweb.com
- Quantum Physics Double Slit Experiment: video.google.com
- Quantum Physics Double Slit Experiment - amazing results: www.videosift.com/story.php?id=1667
- Quantum Physics Made Relatively Simple: bethe.cornell.edu/
- Quantum Physics Online: www.quantum-physics.polytechnique.fr/en/
- QuarkNet: quarknet.fnal.gov
- Reed College Research Reactor: reactor.reed.edu
- Relativity Calculator: www.1728.com/reltivty.htm
- Roller Coaster: www.funderstanding.com/k12/coaster/
- Sailing Simulator: www.nationalgeographic.com
- Sailing through Bernoulli: sportsfigures.espn.com
- Same Color Illusion: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070717.html
- Satellite Orbits - Gravitational Assist from Planets:
- Saturday Morning Physics : www-ppd.fnal.gov/smp-w/SMPTitlePage.htm
- Science of Star Wars: www.sciam.com
- Science of Sports: psheldon.rmwc.edu/tnst/
- Scientists turn on biggest ‘Big Bang Machine’ LHC: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26439957/
- Seawater Sound Speed Calculator: freespace.virgin.net/sd.richards/
- Seven smashing atom-smashers: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26057834/
- Simple Machines: www.cosi.org/onlineExhibits/simpMach/
- Simple Particle System in Games Programming: silverlightrocks.com
- skoool.co.uk: lgfl.skoool.co.uk
- Solar Energy Activities: www.wattsonschools.com/activities.htm
- Something every physicist in Seattle knows (Humour): blogs.msdn.com/officeoffline/
- Sound Tasks: www.fcps.k12.va.us/FoxMillES/sound.html
- Space Time Wrinkles: archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/
- SparkNotes - Physics: www.sparknotes.com/physics/
- Static Electricity Generator with PVC Pipe: home.earthlink.net/~lenyr/stat-gen.htm
- Stephen Hawking's Universe: www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/
- Stone Skipping Gets Scientific: news.nationalgeographic.com
- Subatomic venture: public.web.cern.ch
- 'Super-scope' will unlock secrets: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5176558.stm
- Talking about Sound: cnx.rice.edu/content/m11060/latest/
- Teleporting a Laser Beam: www.msnbc.com/news/768248.asp
- Thermodynamics: heat-phys.org.ru
- Thermodynamics: thermodynamicstudy.net
- The Great Ketchup Mystery: www.firstscience.com/site/articles/ketchup.asp
- The hunt for the worst sound in the world: www.sound101.org
- The Large Hadron Collider Experiment (movie and sound): www.petermccready.com/portfolio/05091901.html
- The Light Stuff: www.pbs.org
- The most famous scientific photo of history: www.astroseti.org
- The Physics Classroom: www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/
- The Physics of Sailing: www.phys.unsw.edu.au/%7Ejw/sailing.html
- The Physics Textbook (Free, downloadable): www.motionmountain.net
- The Pitch Drop Experiment: www.physics.uq.edu.au/pitchdrop/pitchdrop.shtml
- The Science of Knots Unraveled: www.livescience.com/strangenews/071003-knots-form.html
- The Science of Light: www.learner.org/teacherslab/science/light/
- The Uncertainty Principle: plato.stanford.edu
- The Whys Guy: www.hep.uiuc.edu/home/mats/whysguy.html
- Things of Interest: www.mip.berkeley.edu/physics/
- Thunderstorm Electrification and Lightning Experiment: www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/telex/
- Tripping the light(ning) fantastic: news.bbc.co.uk
- Understanding Camera Lenses: www.cambridgeincolour.com
- Using Creativity & Physics to Design Race Cars: www.nsta.org
- Using Flight Simulator in the Classroom: www.fsinsider.com/Educators/
- Visualizing the unseen forces of turbulence: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26630825/
- Voltage Drop Calculator: www.electrician.com/vd_calculator.html
- Voltage Drop - FAQ: www.psihq.com/iread/faqvolt.htm
- Voltage Drop in a Series Circuit: www.horizonshelpr.org/math/electronics/
- Wave Motion Simulations: physics.ham.muohio.edu
- What is Antimatter?: van.hep.uiuc.edu
- What is Physics?: www.tcd.ie/Physics/Schools/what.html
- What is the Matter with Antimatter?: conferences.fnal.gov/
- What is the origin of hours, minutes and seconds?: tf.nist.gov/general/history.htm
- What is the Speed of Light?: www.what-is-the-speed-of-light.com
- What happened to the antimatter?: www.physorg.com/news12049.html
- What's a hadron? Tour the particle zoo: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26320396/
- What's the Matter?: www.galaxy.net/~k12/matter/
- Why is Water Blue?: webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/
- Why skies are blue instead of purple: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8631798/
- World Year of Physics 2005: www.physics2005.org
- X-Ray Solves Secret of Life (Jun, 1939): blog.modernmechanix.com
- YAPMM (Yet Another Perpetual Motion Machine: letaripper.blogspot.com
- Zeno's Paradox - The Motionless Runner: mathforum.org/isaac/problems/zeno1.html