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Check out the U.S. Naval Observatory and calibrate your watch.
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html |
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Tired of the old Gregorian calelndar?
Want something different? Try http://www.panix.com/~wlinden/calendar.shtml |
| The Laws List [This site contains a good glossary of pertinent terms.] Laws, rules, principles, effects, paradoxes, limits, constants, experiments, & thought-experiments in physics http://www.alcyone.com/max/physics/laws/ |
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Eric's Treasure Troves of Science http://www.treasure-troves.com/physics |
| How Things Work [This site offers credible explanations of the science behind common artifacts.] http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/topics.html |
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Need a question answered? Try your
luck at Ask
the Space Scientist http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/askmag.html |
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Physical Constants -
Here is a site maintained by the National Institute of Standards
that lists stanrdards for measurement of everything that can
be measured. http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html?/codata86.html http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/bibliography.html |
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Physics
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by the University of Wisconsin -River Falls http://www.uwrf.edu/physics/teacherfavorites.html
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| The Mardens of Science -- American Science and Surplus http://sciplus.com |
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An applet for the teacher?
Java applets are short, animated diagrams illustrating some phenomenon.
You can find a veritable bushel of applets at http://physicsweb.org/TIPTOP/VLAB/ |
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http://physicsweb.org/resources/paw.phtml?k=Reference/History/Archives&f=l&t=k http://physicsweb.org/resources/paw.phtml?k=Computing/Java+Applets&t=k&f=l |
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Female
Mathematicians: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/Women.html |
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to 4000 Years of Women in Science at http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html |
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Biographies
of Women Mathematicians at http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm |
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Nine
Steps toward Achieving Gender Equity in the Classroom http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/homepginfo/equity/Equity_handbook.html |
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The sites listed below bring into
sharper focus contemporary women in Science, Engineering and Technology in the United Kingdom. http://www.strath.ac.uk/Other/WISE/WOW/Profiles.html http://www.shu.ac.uk/witec/ http://www.awise.org/about.htm http://www.set4women.gov.uk/set4women/ |
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Contributions of 20th Century
Women in Physics http://www.physics.ucla.edu/%7Ecwp/ |
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Steven Hawking's Universe http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html |
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The Messier Catalog http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/Messier.html |
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History of Astronomy http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/hist_astr |
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Born after 1969? See the phase
of the moon on your birthday and other oddities at http://celtic-connection.com/myth/moon.html |
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Click these lines
for a collection of history sites. http://www.aip.org/history/pubslst.htm#bohr http://www.aip.org/history/index.html http://web.mit.edu/redingtn/www/netadv/hist.html http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/history.htm |
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History of Science
[A Good Web Site linked to 100 other
useful sites for science, philosophy, and ethics. Alchemy included
at no additional charge.] http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sci/chem/internet/history.html Center for History of Physics: http://www.aip.org/history/ |
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Physics Time-Lines -- general http://www.psigate.ac.uk/newsite/physics_timeline.html http://www.weburbia.demon.co.uk/pg/heretic.htm twentieth century http://timeline.aps.org/APS/index.html |
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Need the Picture of
a Physicist? http://www.aip.org/history/esva/ |
| The Galileo Project is a hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time. http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo// |
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Included in this collection is an extensive resource on the history of early science Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Visit it at http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo//Catalog/catalog.html |
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An iconoclast for the 20th century http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/feynman.html |
| http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/historysites.html |
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Show me de money The contribution to
science by the men and women of science is recognized by awards
or by naming units after them. Some countries put their faces
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VisIt this very comprehensive site http://www.aip.org/history/web-link.htm |
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Need a physics nespaper? |
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For a comprehensive history of mathematics, go to |
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http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/index.html
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/RBallHist.html |
| History of Mathematics Archive http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history |
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| Mathematics Enrichment: http://www.nrich.maths.org.uk/ |
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What's My Line? Click on this site for an explanation of just about every curve one can draw. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html |
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For those of you who want to get down to basics in geometry, try Euclid's Elements. This site is interactive and lets the students move the diagrams http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html |
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Find an entire high school math program at Hypermath http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hmat.html |
| Powers of Ten Applet |
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Geometry in Motion at http://www15.addr.com/~dscher/ allows to interact with a wide variety of geometric diagrams |
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Here is a comprehensive site at Drexel
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| National Science Foundation | http://www.nsf.gov/mps/phy/start.htm |
| NASA | http://www.nasa.gov |
| Air & Space Museum | http://web6.si.edu/ |
| Smithsonian Institute | http://www.si.edu/ |
| US Department of Energy | http://www.energy.gov/ |
| National Science Teachers Assoc. | http://www.nsta.org |
| American Association of Physics Teachers | http://www.aapt.org |
| American Physical Society | http://www.aps.org/index.oth.html |
| American Institute of Physics | http://www.aip.org/ |
| Optical Society of America | http://www.osa.org/ |
| National Museum of Science- London | http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/ |
| Fermi Lab | http://www.fnal.gov/ |
| C.E.R.N. | http://www.cern.ch/ |
MORE GENERAL INFORMATION The Internet Pilot to Physics http://physicsweb.org/TIPTOP/ Albert Einstein On line http://www.westegg.com/einstein/
http://www.sofitec.lu/misc/einstein.htm http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~smfriedm/einstein.html
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/General Information http://www.physlink.com/ Feynman Information http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/feynman.html ABCs of Nuclear Science http://www.lbl.gov/abc/ Lawrence Berkeley Lab http://www.lbl.gov/ Holography http://www.holography.ru/holoflash.htm The Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu/ Exploratorium demos http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/snacksbysubject.html Science News Online http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc97/12_20_97/bob1.htm Nobel Laureates http://www.nobel.se/
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| Welcome to the Universe | http://www.mos.org/sln/wtu/index.html |
| Virtual Reference Desk | http://www.vrd.org/ |
| Ethics Center for Science | http://onlineethics.org/ |
| NOVA - On-line | http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/ |
| Science Insight | http://www.britishcouncil.org/science/science/pubs/insight.htm |
| Chemical Societies Network | http://www.chemsoc.org/ |
| The History of Chemistry | http://library.thinkquest.org/2690/hist/history.html |
| Isaac Newton | http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newton.html |
| 20th century achievement | http://www.greatachievements.org/ |
| United States Naval Observatory | http://www.usno.navy.mil/ |
| American Nuclear Society | http://www.ans.org/ |
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