REFERENCE PAGE INDEX
  GENERAL INTEREST  WOMEN'S ISSUES   HISTORY OF PHYSICS 
 HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS  GOV'T AGENCIES & 
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
 TOPICS in MATHEMATICS
 University Physics Depts  COMPUTER VENDORS  GENERAL INTEREST (more)
   CHEMISTRY TOPICS  

 GENERAL INTEREST
  Check out the U.S. Naval Observatory and calibrate your watch.
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html
 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/
 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
 Need a question answered? Try your luck at Ask the Space Scientist
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/askmag.html
 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

 Physics teacher's favorite sites developed by the University of Wisconsin -River Falls http://www.uwrf.edu/physics/teacherfavorites.html
And others not supported by UWRF
physics news graphics
http://www.aip.org/mgr/png/index.html
physics web
http://physicsweb.org/

http://www.physicsweb.com/
http://pdg.lbl.gov/~aerzber/aps_books.html
http://www.physlink.com/index.cfm
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/

 

 The Mardens of Science -- American Science and Surplus http://sciplus.com
 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/

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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 WOMEN'S ISSUES
 Female Mathematicians:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/Women.html
 Go to 4000 Years of Women in Science at
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html
 Biographies of Women Mathematicians at
http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
 Nine Steps toward Achieving Gender Equity in the Classroom
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/homepginfo/equity/Equity_handbook.html
 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/
Contributions of 20th Century Women in Physics 
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/%7Ecwp/

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 CHEMISTRY
American Chemical Society  http://www.acs.org
Atomic spectra on-line
http://javalab.uoregon.edu/dcaley/elements/Elements.html
  WWW Table of Isotopes
http://ie.lbl.gov/education/isotopes.htm
 MSDS
http://www.boc.com/gases/msds_us/index.html

 Chart/nuclides

http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/periodic/isotopes.html

 Periodic Table
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Chemicool
http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/default.htm

http://www.chemicalelements.com/
http://www.csrri.iit.edu/periodic-table.html
http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/refperiodic.html
http://www.mindspring.com/~drwolfe/WWWolfe_hcc_links_ptable.htm
Chemindex
http://www.chemdex.org/
Virtual Chemistry Center
http//www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/GradChemistry.html
http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/general/index_en.html
 Selected Papers in Chem History
 http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/papers.html
 http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/Chem-History/Classic-Papers-Menu.html
 
 history of chemistry
 This Week in the History of Chemistry
http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/week.html
 Selected Papers from the History of Chemistry
http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/papers.html
 http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/historysites.html
 

 Chem Tutor - very comprehensive - veery good

http://search.freefind.com/find.html?query=&sitemap=Site+Map&id=78321584&pid=r&mode=ALL&n=0

 http://www.columbia.edu/itc/chemistry/chem-c2507/navbar/chemhist.html
The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements
http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/

 ASTRONOMY
Steven Hawking's Universe 
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html
 The Messier Catalog
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/Messier.html
  History of Astronomy
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/hist_astr
  Born after 1969? See the phase of the moon on your birthday and other oddities at
http://celtic-connection.com/myth/moon.html

 HISTORY of PHYSICS f
 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
 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/
 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
 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//

 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

 An iconoclast for the 20th century
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/feynman.html
 http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/historysites.html

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 on currency
http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money/

 VisIt this very comprehensive site
http://www.aip.org/history/web-link.htm

 Need a physics nespaper?

http://physicsweb.org/

 http://www.physlink.com/
 
 
 
 

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 History of Mathematics
For a comprehensive history of mathematics, go to
 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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 TOPICS in MATHEMATICS
 Mathematics Enrichment: http://www.nrich.maths.org.uk/
 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


 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
Find an entire high school math program at Hypermath
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hmat.html
 Powers of Ten Applet
 Geometry in Motion at http://www15.addr.com/~dscher/
allows to interact with a wide variety of geometric diagrams
 Here is a comprehensive site at Drexel University
http://mathforum.org/library/toc.html
 
 

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GOVERNMENT AGENCIES & SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
  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/
   

Aerodynamic index
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/short.html

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Last edited 12/30/05