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Physics Links
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General:
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3rd
Rock from the Sun - Physics by Dick Solomon
(youtube.com)
(Links to Professor Brian Cox, a Royal Society
University Research Fellow; CERN; Brian's wife, Gia, a Science
groupie. - S. K. Smith)
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Apollo's
Children (apolloschildren.com)
(Links to Professor Brian Cox, a Royal Society
University Research Fellow; CERN; Brian's wife, Gia, a Science
groupie. - S. K. Smith)
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Cool Math & Physics Blogs
(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
(from Degrees
of Freedom, a favorite list)
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Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
(scienceworld.wolfram.com)
(Contributions in Physics thanks to Wolfram.
SK Smith.)
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Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations
(sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu)
("We provide visual demonstrations for a wide
variety of topics to supplement lectures in physics, chemistry,
astronomy, and biology.".)
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HyperPhysics Concepts
(hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu)
(A great resource site hosted by the Physics and
Astronomy Department at Georgia State University, which covers a
wide range of physics topics, including modern physics and
astronomy.)
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MinutePhysics
(youtube.com)
(" Cool physics and other sweet science - all
in a minute!")
Some favorites: 2011
Nobel Prize: Dark Energy feat.
How
lasers work
The
Arrow of Time feat
GPS,
relativity, and nuclear detection There
is no pink light
How
to break the speed of light
The
Speed of Light in Glass
Schrödinger's
Cat What
is fire?
What
is Dark Matter?
Distance
and Special Relativity: How far away is tomorrow?
What
is a dimension? In 3D...and 2D... and 1D
What
is Quantum Tunneling? What
is Gravity?
What
is the Uncertainty Principle?
How
the Sun works: Fusion and Quantum Tunneling
What
is the Wave/Particle Duality? - Part
1 Part
2
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NewScientist:
Math & Physics (NewScientist.com)
(For the latest in math & physics land.
I can't keep up? - S. K. Smith)
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physics.org
(physics.org)
("Your guide to physics on the web.")
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Physics Study Guides - SparkNotes
(sparknotes.com)
(The Cliff Notes of Physics - S. K. Smith)
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physicsworld.com
(physicsworld.com)
("news, views and information for the global
physics community ....")
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Quotes:
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Physics
Quotes (physicsquotes.blogspot.com)
("quotes by physicist or/and on
physics-related subjects.")
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CERN:
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CERN
(public.web.cern.ch/public/)
(European Organization for Nuclear Research.)
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Large
Hadron Rap (YouTube video)
** Rappin' about CERN's Large
Hadron Collider! **
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The Standard Model Of Particle Physics (YouTube video)
("...theory
concerning the electromagnetic, weak and strong nuclear interactions
which mediate the dynamics of the known subatomic particles.")
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Einstein:
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Albert
Einstein Quotes (YouTube.com)
("Quotes by Albert Einstein
accompanied by Mozart.")
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E=mc²:
Einstein explains his famous formula
(YouTube.com)
("Albert Einstein explaining the
equivalence of energy and matter.")
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Einstein
as a young boy about the existence of God (mikeduering.com)
("Albert Einstein was not only one of
the greatest scientists of all time, but also a very spiritual man.")
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Gravity
Probe B: Testing Einstein's Universe (einstein.stanford.edu)
(I actually worked a short time on this
project before budget cuts forced me to leave - S. K. Smith)
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Relativity:
Einstein
Was Right: General Relativity Confirmed (FoxNews.com)
("Score one more for Einstein. A new
study has confirmed his theory of general relativity works on
extremely large scales.")
The Elegant Universe - Einstein's Relativity
(YouTube.com)
("Einstein's General Theory of
Relativity explained.")
New
Discovery about the Fabric of Space-Time
(YouTube.com)
("Scientists have turned up rare
evidence that space-time is smooth as Einstein predicted, while
pushing closer to a complete theory of gravity.")
Mr.
Spock and Dr. Einstein
(smithsk.com)
("Long before Star Trek, astronomers were looking for
the planet Vulcan.
It literally took an Einstein to solve this mystery.")
The Scotsman
who beat Einstein (smithsk.com)
("Einstein has been called the Father of Relativity.
But there was a Scotsman who beat Einstein by about 40 years.
Read on...")
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Hawking:
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Professor Stephen W. Hawking
(hawking.org.uk)
(His official website. "Stephen
Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the
universe.")
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Review of 'The Grand Design,' by Stephen Hawking and Leonard
Mlodinow. (washingtonpost.com)
("Hawking and Mlodinow launch into an
accessible and elegant history of the progression of scientific
knowledge from the Greeks to modern cosmology.")
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Homework:
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10 Award-Winning Scientific Simulation Videos
(wired.com)
(From Blood flow to Wind Farm Turbulence)
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Virtual atom smasher in
LHC@Home 2.0 | iSGTW
(isgtw.org)
(" ...allow BOINC users to participate in
physics experiments being done at CERN - and ultimately perhaps even
the search for the Higgs Boson itself")
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Light:
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Richard Feynman talks about light
(youtube.com)
("Inconceivable nature of nature.")
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Slow
Light (factlets.info/SlowLight.html)
("Harvard scientists slowed light to a mere
38 mph by shooting it through supercooled matter." Pretty
cool, literally, huh? - S. K. Smith)
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Matter:
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Antimatter Breakthrough -- Electron is Stunningly Spherical, Scientists Discover
(foxnews.com)
("The electron was hailed by British
scientists Thursday as the roundest natural object in the universe.")
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Modern Physics:
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Interactions.org - Particle physics, high energy physics, news and resources (interactions.org)
("Interactions.org
is designed to serve as a central resource for communicators of
particle physics.")
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Quantum
Mechanics for the MTV Generation
(YouTube.com)
("A
complete history of Quantum Mechanics in 90seconds.")
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The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements
(news.stanford.edul)
("When researchers found an
unusual linkage between solar flares and the inner life of
radioactive elements on Earth, it touched off a scientific detective
investigation that could end up protecting the lives of
space-walking astronauts and maybe rewriting some of the assumptions
of physics.")
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String
Theory - (2 Minutes)
(YouTubecom)
(String
theory introduction.)
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symmetry Magazine (symmetrymagazine.org)
("symmetry
is a magazine about particle physics and its connections to other
aspects of life and science, from interdisciplinary collaborations
to policy to culture.")
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Symphony
of Science - the Quantum World! (youtube.org)
("musical
investigation into the nature of atoms and subatomic particles, the
jiggly things that make up everything we see.")
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What
is quantum tunneling? (YouTubecom)
("Perspective
on quantum mechanical tunneling.")
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Myths about Physics:
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Popular
Physics Myths (physics.about.com)
(From Quantum Mechanics to Relativity to the
Hadron Collider to Thermodynamics, etc.)
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Physics 101:
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Flash
Animations for Physics (upscale.utoronto.ca)
("We have been
increasingly using Flash animations for illustrating
Physics content. This page provides access to those animations which
may be of general interest. The animations will appear in a separate
window.")
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Pendulum
Waves (youtube.com)
("Fifteen uncoupled
simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together
to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating,")
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Winter
Driving - It's all about the friction (smithsk.com)
(Pump
those brakes! Why? It's the right kind of friction.)
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Semiconductors:
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Britney
Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm)
(Wow! Who knew Britney Spears had a secret life
as a physicist! ;) - S. K. Smith)
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Scientists
discover world’s smallest superconductor
(ohio.edu)
(We can look forward to even smaller electronic
gadgets? - S. K. Smith)
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Time:
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Freaky
Physics Proves Parallel Universes Exist
(FoxNews.com)
(It's Back to the Future? - S. K. Smith)
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The Symphony of Time
(youtube.com)
("A musical celebration of the concept of
Time")
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Where science merges with
science fiction:
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Sci Fi Science : Videos : Science Channel
(science.discovery.com)
("Could science really lead to the creation
of devices like light sabres and time machines that we can only see
in sci fi movies?")
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