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General Websites
• http://www.iop.org/ Institute of Physics. This is a good source of current news and information about physics.
• http://www.ocr.org.uk/develop/physicsb/physicsb.htm OCR: The AS and A2 examination board
• http://post16.iop.org/advphys/ Advancing Physics web site: This provides useful information for the AS/A2 course.
• http://www.exploratorium.edu/ Exploratorium: See what is at the Exploratorium through the virtual tour. Have a look at the excellent section on Sports Science covering baseball, cycling, skateboarding and hockey, or science and technology news on Science Wire, or go off to the observatory - lots of resources.
• http://www.howstuffworks.com/ How Stuff Works: There are lots of articles on this website dealing with such devices as CDs, telephones and televisions, together with answers to many questions like 'Can flour explode?'
• http://www.newscientist.com/ New Scientist: The website for the magazine providing the latest science news, weblinks, careers, jobs, and a database of topics to access.
• http://www.sciencecity.org.uk/ Science City UK: Lots of articles on this website provide information in the areas of recreation and leisure, health, energy, electronics and IT, engineering, manufacturing and industry, sustainability and biodiversity, the retail sector and residential. Very interesting indeed and usually at the forefront of development - pcbs on paper, compact power lines, the intelligent microwave. Up to the minute newsdesk too.
• http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC): The website of EPSRC giving access to lots of information about research in engineering and physical sciences. Lots of research highlights to look at, links, and an on-line version of Newsline.
• http://www.phys.ntnu.edu.tw/java/index.html Virtual Physics Laboratory at NTNU Physics: Source of a superb range of JAVA applets on topics such as mechanics, dynamics, waves, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, light and optics, and some waves and vibrations applets.
• http://www.mda.org.uk/vlmp Museums around the UK - a virtual library: This is a list, but an extremely comprehensive list; an excellent source of ideas for places to visit on a myriad of subjects.
• http://home.a-city.de/walter.fendt/phe/phe.htm Walter Fendt's Java Physics Applets: Lots on mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, relativity, atomic and nuclear physics.
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Technology in Space
• http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html Starchild: This is a learning centre for young astronomers, providing lots of activities, information and imagery. It has gained lots of awards.
• http://pinto.mtwilson.edu/Science/TIE/ Telescopes in Education (TIE) Project: This project is based at the Mount Wilson Observatories and allows students from all over the world to participate in the use of a 24 inch telescope with CCD camera and download the images obtained
• http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/ Universe! An Educational Forum: This website is aimed more at younger students and has been designed to teach about the scientific study of the structure and evolution of the Universe. Lots of resources and useful links incorporated.
• http://www.michielb.nl/od95/ Virtual Tour of the Sun: As its title suggests this website provides a tour of the Sun, looking at how sunspots change over time, the life of the Sun etc. plus lots of images, both stills and movies. Not complex, but it is interesting.
• http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/faq/astroftp.html Astro links: A very useful source containing links to file servers with astronomy and space related material.
• http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/astroweb/yp-astronomy.html Astroweb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet:
Excellent links to astronomy-related information: over 3000 links to date. This is a good place to start if you do not quite know exactly what you are looking for.
• http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/astro/astroindex.html Basics of Space flight: One to visit to answer most of your space related questions. It has lots of links including ones to all the space missions that NASA has been involved with.
• http://www.nasda.go.jo/index_e.html Cosmic Information Centre (NASDA): This is the main website of the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) and provides lots of up to the minute space news, a space encyclopaedia and a space gallery of images and movies.
• http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov Comet Observation Homepage: If you wish to know which comets are visible, or will be so in the not too distant future, then here is a source of that information. Additionally it contains images of present and past comets
• http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/physics/clea/CLEAhome.html Laboratory Exercises in Astronomy:
A source of some excellent software to download. These include Large Scale Structure, Hubble Redshift, Stellar Spectra, Radioastronomy of Pulsars and a number more. Notes are provided with the downloaded files.
• http://space.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/cobe/cobe_home.html Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) homepage:
A good website if you are looking for details of the COBE satellite and the instruments it carried: far IR absolute spectrophotometers, microwave radiometer, diffuse IR background; together with details of the data and images obtained. There is a lot of instructional material here too on cosmology and the COBE satellite, an image gallery, project ideas and lots of links.
• http://www.star.le.ac.uk/edu/index.html Education Guide to Space: This is Leicester University's introduction to several areas of space science and astronomy with links designated by age range. It has some useful sections on satellites, space stations and interplanetary probes.
• http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html International Space Station (ISS): This enables you to see what is happening on the ISS and to examine the science behind it. It is also a source of lots of images and a virtual tour.
• http://education.nasa.gov/ NASA Education Programs: Links to a large number of resources.
• http://www.rig.org.uk/ Remote Imaging Group: Contains lots of information about imaging from space, mainly from weather satellites.
• http://www.windows.ucar.edu/ Windows to the Universe: This is a website covering the earth and space sciences. It contains lots of downloads, images, movies, animations, data sets, FAQs, ask a scientist, activities and links to observations.
• http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/ An excellent resource for projects on the solar system: lots of data on origins of planets' names, details about their temperatures and surfaces, photographs, statistics, and diagrams.
• http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/ NASA's site for teenagers. It includes loads of information on astronauts, rockets, space missions, gravity, light and satellites.
Waves
• http://www.uni-giessen.de/faq/archiv/physics-faq.acoustics/msg00000.html
Acoustics: Useful set of questions and answers to do with acoustics in general and tackling such queries as 'What is active noise control?' and 'How is vibration isolated and controlled?' It also has links to websites, useful software, books and journals, plus an online resource dealing with a host of topics within acoustics.
• http://www.gmi.edu/~drussell/Demos.html Vibration and Waves Animations: An extremely useful set of animations covering a wide variety of types of oscillation, an MPEG movie of Tacoma Narrows Bridge, mechanical waves, sound waves including the Doppler Effect, and a few in the optical and matter wave area. It also has some useful links.
• http://www.ultrasoundinsider.com/ Medical Ultrasound WWW Directory: Is a source of links to lots of information on ultrasound scanning.
• http://www.bt.com/innovation/index.htm BT Innovation and Technology: This provides a chance to see into the future of communications technology. It is also interesting to look at the BT Technology Journal and their online exhibition at Adastral Park.
• http://www.cen.bris.ac.uk/civil/students/eqteach97/ Dynamics, Vibrations and
Earthquake Resources.
A website developed by Bristol University's earthquake engineering students of 1997. It contains lots of information on earthquakes and how to design buildings to resist them, plenty of photographs and video clips illustrating various modes of failure.
Mechanics and Dynamics
• http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics Exhibits Collection of Amusement Park Physics: This site looks at the physics of the roller coaster, carousel, bumper cars, free fall and the pendulum. You can make and test out your predictions regarding the physics involved. You can even design your own roller coaster.
• http://themeparks.miningco.com/travel/themeparks/msub24.htm Physics of Rides - Theme Park Net Links: Links to a number of sites in which the physics of amusement park rides is addressed.
• http://www.acx.com/cool_smartshock.html Smartshock: The website of Active Control eXperts. The smartshock device is fitted to a mountain bike and makes a very effective active shock absorber.
• http://www.mvp.de/ Magnetic Levitation Train: In German, it shows their MVP train which is supported by magnetic levitation.
Materials
• http://www.matter.org.uk/ Materials Science and Engineering Educational Software: A wide-ranging resource for materials science with lots of activities, including a wealth of Java applets covering most topics in school physics, not just on materials.
• http://www.coruseducation.com/ CORUS Group: This is the site of the Corus Group which now incorporates what was British Steel. It has an education section which lists various resources linking science to the steel industry.
• http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/ Microworlds - Exploring the Structure of Materials
This website provides an interactive tour of current research in materials science at the Berkeley Laboratory's Advanced Light Source - lots of resources, ideas, fact sheets and activities.
• http://olbers.kent.edu/alcomed/Newsletters/Newsletters.html ALCOMed Newsletters: This is a superb site for information on liquid crystals, LCDs and experiments that you can conduct on them.
• http://friedel.dur.ac.uk/~dch0mrw/blcs/blcs.html British Liquid Crystal Society: Lots of information contained here on liquid crystals and useful links in the section 'Education and Resources'.
• http://www.cdtltd.co.uk/ Cambridge Display Technology: This website gives an insight into light emitting polymers and their applications. A number of technical articles are included.
• http://plc.cwru.edu/ Polymers and Liquid Crystals: A website containing a virtual laboratory and textbook providing lots of experiments and information on polymers and liquid crystals.
• http://www.c14dating.com/ Radiocarbon Dating: This site gives details of the technique of C14 dating, how age is calculated and the applications and use of the technique.
Particle Physics
• http://www.pparc.ac.uk/ Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) website: The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council website.
• http://pdg.lbl.gov/atlas/atlas.html ATLAS Experiment: Details are provided here of the ATLAS experiment to be conducted on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the physics related to it, and of the accelerator.
• http://hepwww.rl/ac.uk/BaBar.pub/ BaBar and the Missing Antimatter: This gives an excellent introduction to BaBar, providing an insight into the experiment and the UK involvement.
• http://www.cpepweb.org/ European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN): Contains information about the centre and its work, web and real tours, its accelerators, visits etc.
• http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk//wired/ Interactive Display of LEP events: Lots of events to look at set up as Java Applets.
• http://www.iop.org/Physics/Electron/Exhibition/ Life, the Universe and the Electron: Set up in 1997, centenary of the electron's discovery, by the Science Museum and the Institute of Physics, it provides information on what an electron is, its discovery, the electron microscope and much more.
• http://www.fnal.gov/pub/hep_descript.html Science of Particle Physics: This website provides excellent notes on particle physics covering elementary particles, matter-energy intraconversion, quantum mechanics, electroweak force, colour force, particle accelerators and particle detectors.
• http://webnt.physics.ox.ac.uk/documents/Webguide/default.html
Particle Physics Websites for Schools:
A source of weblinks to some particle physics websites of use to schools and colleges, plus a small selection to other sites of interest to science education.
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