Physics

Physics AS and A level

Communication

• Imaging
  • Ultrasound Images
  • Lots of Pictures: X-ray, Computer Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ultrasound
  • Visible Human Project
  • Astronomical Images from the Anglo-Australian Observatory
  • SpaceImaging: Images of Earth from Satelite
  • Weather Satelite Images - Visible Light and Infra Red - The Met Office
  • Powers of Ten
  • Powers of Ten - Cern Microcosm
  • The Universe in 40 Jumps
  • A view from the Back of the Envelope
  • Pointillism (relates to Reading 20T)
• Sensing
  • RS components online catalogue
  • Resistors in Series and Parallel - simulations and questions
• Signalling
  • Cool Edit: sound editing software
  • Scientific American - Century in Communication

Designer Materials

• Materials on Test
  • Scientific American - Smart Materials
  • Hooke's Law
  • The Young Modulus - "virtual experiment"
  • Building Stone of the United States: The NIST Test Wall
  • Plastics: Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe
• Looking Inside Materials
  • Scientific American - Observing Orbitals

Wave and Quantum Behaviour

• Wave behaviour

• Quantum behaviour
  • The strange world of quantum mechanics

Space and Time

• Mapping Space and Time
  • Cockpit Physics
• Computing the Next Move

Models and Rules

• Out Into Space, Our Place in the Universe
  • NASA
  • Introduction to Windows to the Universe
  • The ASTRONOMY CAFE
  • Astronomy Links
  • Olbers' Question - Why is the sky dark at night?

Matter in Extremes

Fields

• Electric Fields - simulation

Fundamental Particles of Matter

• Particle Physics in the UK - Lots of UK links (including some given separately below)
• Royal Holloway College- Particle Physics Slideshow - "Small parts"
• The Particle Adventure
• Big Bang Science
• Seeing Particles - how to read bubble chamber tracks.
• Identifying Interesting Particle Physics.
• The National Particle Physics Masterclass - details, venues and dates
• CERN Microcosm
• CERN - the OPAL experiment - the Higgs Boson