Amusement Park Physics
Explores how the laws of physics play a role in the design of amusement park rides. Activities invite visitors to design a roller coaster and determine the outcomes of bumper car collisions. Links to related sites are provided.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/
Web Physics Project
A flexible low budget outlet for small volume, high quality, HTML-based curricular material. It provides a forum for physics educators to exchange curriculum ideas and resources that make use of web technology (primarily public domain material), and prov
http://webphysics.davidson.edu/
Computer Simulation Methods
A web site devoted to faculty and students using computer simulation techniques as a method of discovery in physics. This is a companion site to a textbook, but provides content from other sources as well.
http://sip.clarku.edu/
Interactive Textbook
College freshman-level physics textbook online in several different formats, notably a java-interactive format.
http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/courses/gladney/mathphys/Contents.html
Physics.org.uk
A site for UK students wishing to do physics or engineering, at all levels; with help in deciding on a future in physics.
http://www.physics.org.uk/
The Sound of Solitary Waves
Physicists have demonstrated the first acoustic solitary waves in air--waves that can travel long distances without changing shape.
http://focus.aps.org/story/v4/st24
The Elements of Machines
Some simple machines, explained, described and illustrated.
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html
Physics for Beginners
An introduction to some concepts in physics for the absolute beginner. Included is a equation solver which is for use with the Physics For Beginners section.
http://physics.webplasma.com/
Bearwood Physics
Includes revision notes and questions geared towards the A-Level and GCSE examination in the United Kingdom.
http://www.bearwoodphysics.com
TYC Physics Workshops
Information about workshops provided for two-year or community college physics teachers and the products of this project.
http://tycphysics.org/
Bad Physics
Misunderstood things in physics with simple explanations.
http://www.geoffers2000.freeserve.co.uk/
Physics 2000
An interactive journey through modern physics. Have fun learning visually and conceptually about 20th century science and high-tech devices. Uses java applets.
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl
Physics Laws and Quizzes
Solve some problems using the fundamental laws and be announced as a Quiz Master.
http://members.tripod.com/arilizi/
Space Station Phyve
A WebQuest for high school physics and MST students to research and design a rotating space colony. This highly scientific mission contains links and teacher rubric.
http://www.geocities.com/r_deruvo/
International Physics Olympiads
Regional and international physics olympiads. Information, mailing lists, and links to all the IPhO problems available on the web.
http://www.geocities.com/links2ipho/
North Salinas High School Physics Club
Projects done over the years, alumni information, and details about the club's events and members.
http://www.redshift.com/~vikweb/index.html
Teralab
Descriptions and photographs of electrostatics, electron bombardment and wave experiments done with home equipment.
http://www.rhunt.f9.co.uk/
Physics Comics
Comics-style lessons in physics fundamentals. Topics include motion, forces, vectors, work and energy, and impulse and momentum.
http://www.bmts.com/~stoeckli/
Society of Physics Students (SPS)
Complete set of information for members of any level of SPS. Scholarships and awards, news, activities, staff, structure, online forms, student resources, and links to significant physics sites.
http://www.aip.org/education/sps/
FYKOS - Physical Correspondence Seminary
Worldwide competition in physics for grammar school (under age 19) students with an interest in physics.
http://fykos.mff.cuni.cz/en/
Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST
The values of the fundamental physical constants provided at this site are recommended for international use by CODATA and are the latest available.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html
Science-Pseudoscience
Science, non-science and pseudoscience: a set of lessons to teach students to define and differentiate the three.
http://www.chem1.com/chemed/flimflam.html
Physics Simulations - Teaching Programs
Free and commercial site with physics programs and some other materials available for download and/or sale. No Macintosh materials offered.
http://www.colba.net/~htran/physics/
Live The Physics
Somewhat interactive site which intends to help with all sorts of physics homework and studying issues, and even allows you to email questions to the authors.
http://library.thinkquest.org/13526/
The Physics Encyclopedia
This site provides exhaustive, comprehensive, carefully selected and structured lists on Internet physics resources.
http://members.tripod.com/~IgorIvanov/physics/
Static Electricity
Scientific explanation of the phenomenon of static electricity.
http://www.electrostatics.com/page2.html
HyperPhysics Concepts
A concept map of physics showing relationships between topics while giving explanations and references.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html
Spacetime Wrinkles
Major advances in computation are only now enabling scientists to simulate how black holes form, evolve, and interact. Learn about relativity and its predictions through text and video files at this site.
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/NumRelHome.html
New Physics Teacher Project
Advice for the first year physics teacher gathered from interviews with expert physics educators.
http://earthfuture.tripod.com/mp/adviceproject.html
The Physics of Learning
Extending a physics analogy to teaching and learning creates a rich set of terms and relationships that are already familiar to scientists. This paper defines those terms, suggests methods for quantifying those terms and thus provides teachers with a meth
http://icn2.umeche.maine.edu/instruments/PHYSLRNR.html
Physics, the Neglected Science
Pages to help increase awareness about the value of physics and to lend support to high school physics students, teachers, and parents.
http://intuitor.com/physics/index.html
EmmyNoether.com
A discussion of the nature and examples of symmetries in this subject.
http://www.emmynoether.com/
QuarkNet
Supports centers at 60 universities and laboratories that are participants in the collider experiments at CERN in Switzerland and at Fermilab in Illinois. Physicists will mentor and collaborate with high school teachers. Stipends are provided to the tea
http://quarknet.fnal.gov/
Essential Physics
A book for first-year college students who have an interest in pursuing a career in physics or a closely related field.
http://www.physicsforfree.com/essential.html
Physics at Merton College
Matters related to the AS-level & A-level physics courses. The material covers topics in physics and its related mathematics and will supplement one's normal classwork.
http://www.lokon.demon.co.uk/
The Motion Mountain Physics Text
A free physics textbook on the introductory physics course level, written to be surprising, entertaining, and thought-provoking. Chapters are downloadable pdf files.
http://motionmountain.dse.nl/welcome.html
How Things Work
A service providing answers to questions about physics, science, and how things in the world around us work. Companion to the book by the same name.
http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW//
Kenny Felder's Math and Physics Help Page
A collection of papers written to explain various concepts in math and physics, as well as papers generously donated by other people.
http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/kenny/home.html
Interactive Physics Review System
A study aid for some basic Newtonian physics concepts that come up early in a student's study of basic college level physics.
http://why2.lrdc.pitt.edu/physrev.htm
Physics Central
The outreach site of the members of The American Physical Society. Find out how physics is part of your world, ask questions on how things work, see physics in pictures, get updates on physics in the news, read about research and the people who are doing
http://www.physicscentral.org/
How Atoms Work
Shows how man determined the structure of the atom and learned how atoms interacted with each other.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/atom.htm
Physics Courseware Communicator
Published quarterly by the Physics Courseware Evaluation Project (PCEP) in the Department of Physics at North Carolina State University. This newsletter describes physics educational software of interest to physics teachers at many levels of instruction.
http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/pams/physics/PCEP/www/PCC/PCC.html
Bicycle Physics Online
Divided in two parts. The first is a theory study and the second is a report of the experiment. This study was done as a part of The Bicycle Project from September till December 1999. The research was done at the Kansas State University's department of
http://www.science.uva.nl/research/amstel/bicycle/partic/Bart/Project/
Bicycle Physics
The physics of how to steer a bicycle, and how stop signs interfere with bicycle commuting.
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~fajans/Teaching/bicycles.html
Cartoons and Movies
Some diagrams and movies illustrating some otherwise abstract electrical principles.
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~fajans/Teaching/cartoons/
Interactive Physics Problem Set
Contains almost 100 practice problems for physics students, accompanied by detailed solutions and interactive computer experiments.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7521/projects/IPPS/
Physics Reference
Physics symbols, constants, and SI units, prefixes and rules.
http://www.alcyone.com/max/reference/physics/index.html
Interactive Physics Scenarios by A. John Mallinckrodt
A collection of intermediate and advanced level modules in mechanics, gravitation, thermodynamics, and electrostatics for use with the Interactive Physics software distributed by MSC Working Knowledge.
http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm/myweb/index.ip.html
UMPERG: Minds-On Physics (MOP)
A one-year curriculum for high-school physics. It is the result of a materials-development project supported by the National Science Foundation, and its design was guided by educational research findings.
http://umperg.physics.umass.edu/projects/MindsOnPhysics/
Animations of Wave Motion
Animated GIFs and a discussion of some of the math involved.
http://physics.usask.ca/~hirose/ep225/anim.htm
Select Physics Topics
This physics online ebook covers basic physics from Newton's laws to electricity and magnetism. Lots of applets and animation included.
http://www.science-ebooks.com/phy/select_physics_topics.htm
NSTA - Position Statement on Laboratory Science
Since the laboratory experience is of critical importance in the process of enhancing students' cognitive and affective understanding of science, the National Science Teachers Association makes the following recommendations.
http://www.nsta.org/159&psid=16
Physics First
For the past 130 years, physics has been an integral part of science curriculum at the high school level. Its current vertical position, established about 100 years ago, is now strongly challenged.
http://members.aol.com/physicsfirst/
Assessing-to-Learn (A2L)
A research project on the use of continuous formative assessment in the high-school physics classroom. The website provides participating teachers with a library of assessment items (carefully constructed questions) to choose from for their classes, and w
http://a2l.physics.umass.edu/
Professor Stephen Hawking Online
Biographical, educational, and scholarly. Also includes a bit of fun (did you know he was on The Simpsons TV show?)
http://www.hawking.org.uk/
Physics Simulations in Education
ZIP-format files for DOS or Windows covering a variety of physics phenomena and applications.
http://www.clab.unibe.ch/physim/index.htm
Art Ludwig's Sound Page
Various explorations of sound, sound detection and sound measurement. Includes a section on physics of sound.
http://www.silcom.com/~aludwig/
West Point Bicentennial Engineering Design Contest
Bridge design contest (using specialized software) to celebrate West Point's 200 years of service to the United States of America. November 11, 2001 - February 28, 2002. Anyone can enter. U.S. students in grades K through 12 are eligible to compete for
http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/
Exploring Physics in Cyberspace
This site describes several tested extracurricular programs geared to introducing hands-on interactive physics activities for K-12 students. Supported by the National Science Foundation.
http://web.missouri.edu/~wwwepic/
Space and Time
Course based on Stephen Hawking's best selling book, "A Brief History of Time". The course deals with topics in modern physics such as Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, Quantum Theory, Black Holes and the Creation of the Universe.
http://info.hartwick.edu/physics/spacetime.html
Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics
This page describes the errors seen most frequently in undergraduate mathematics, the likely causes of those errors, and their remedies. Avoid these errors in order to improve in any math-intensive course, including physics.
http://math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/commerrs/
Sea World Physics
Lesson plans, activities and objectives helpful to establish an understanding of the following physics concepts: velocity, acceleration, buoyancy and free fall.
http://www.seaworld.org/just%2Dfor%2Dteachers/guides/physics/to%2Dthe%2Dteacher.htm
Physics Equations and Constants
A concise guide to equations and lists of constants and basic facts at the high school level, sorted by topic.
http://members.fortunecity.co.uk/aceventura/