Web Bibliography
Tutorials
The Physics Classroom
This
site provides great tutorials for a variety of different topics within
physics. Each tutorial contains
information about that topic, animations, and problems for the students to
solve when they are finished reading.
The site is primarily geared toward an upper level or honors level
general high school physics class.
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http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Default2.html
Sparknotes
This
site is another great site filled with study guides on pretty much every topic
within a high school general physics class.
It contains detailed information on every topic and the major terms and
equations involved with that topic. Sparknotes also has sites for many other subjects as well.
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http://www.sparknotes.com/physics/
Hyperphysics
This
is probably the most detailed and comprehensive physics tutorial site out
there. It has contains very informative
descriptions of every topic in physics.
It also helps students through the more difficult mathematical aspects
of physics. The site is geared more to a
college level physics class, but with teacher assistance it could easily be
used in a general high school class.
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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html
Fear of Physics
This
was a very interesting site that contained a lot of fun little activities and
information to get students more excited about physics. Physics is definitely a subject that scares a
lot of people and this site does a great job of making the more difficult
topics a little easier to grasp and understand.
It doesn’t completely explain everything, but it does provide the
students with a basic understanding.
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Demonstrations
Interscience
This
is a really cool site that has fun and exciting demonstrations for almost every
topic in physics. Demonstrations like
these are intended to give students a real life picture of physics at work,
while informing them of the physics involved.
It also works great in exciting the students about physics.
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http://www3.interscience.wiley.com:8100/legacy/college/halliday/0471320005/simulations6e/index.htm
Virtual Labs
This
is another great site for really cool demonstrations. This site contains a lot more demonstrations,
but is also a little tougher to move around in and find what you are looking
for. It does organize things nicely, but
it just takes a little more work to find the demonstration that works best for
your class.
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http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/sciweb/applets.html
Physics Animations
This
is another great site for demonstrations, although I would have to say that the
demonstrations are more for information and less for exciting students. The site is also a little difficult to move
through and doesn’t contain all that many demonstrations. It works great for upper level physics class,
though, where the topics get a little more outrageous.
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http://physics.nad.ru/Physics/English/index.htm
Problems
Physics Problems
If
you are looking for example problems to use for any topic within any physics
class, then this is the site to go to.
It has an incredible amount of problems available for you to use or for
students to access and answer on their own.
The only downside is that it doesn’t use pictures with it, so if you
wanted to make the appearance of a problem worksheet look better you would have
to get the pictures elsewhere.
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http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~probs/probm.html
The Interactive Physics
Problem Set
This
is another great site for example problems for any physics class. Within this site all the problems are
organized based on chapters, so it can get a little more difficult to find the
perfect problem if your text doesn’t match their text. The problems are great in that they walk
students through stepwise to ensure a great understanding of the material.
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http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7521/projects/IPPS/
Organizations
American Institute of
Physics
This
is the official website of the American Institute of Physics and is a great
tool for finding a massive amount of information on anything from current
research to educational services. This
is definitely a great site for any physicist of any age.
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Society of Physics
Students
This
is the official website of SPS and is also a great tool for everything involved
with physics. This site works well in
keeping us physicists aware of what other physicist are doing, as well as
information on anything important happening in the physics world. Anyone who is currently or has ever been a
physics student should definitely check this site out.
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American Association of
Physics Teachers
If
you are currently a physics teacher or you plan to be a physics teacher and you
are not aware of this organization then shame on you. This site has anything you could ever want
for your classroom. Whether it’s ideas for lesson plans, or theories about the best ways
to approach certain topics, or even just cool thing to decorate your classroom
with, this site has it and makes it available to you.
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American Physical Society
The
American Physical Society is an organization similar to the American Institute
of Physics. It provides anyone
interested with access to journal articles, current physics news, and a ton of
other great information. This is another
site that should be checked out by anyone interested in physics.
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Current
News
PhysLink
If
something amazing has happened in physics or astronomy, then this site will
have every bit of information on it. It
is a great site for up to date information of just about anything involved with
physics. Sometimes the topics of articles
are a little weird and interesting, but that’s what physics is all about.
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PhysicsWeb
This
is a great site for news on a lot of the physics research that is going on out
there. It provides great information on
all the new updates about the big research projects that are going on at all
the major research institutes. One other
cool thing that it does is to provide those looking for jobs in physics
research with a list of current job openings.
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American Journal of
Physics
This
is the American Journal of Physics’ website with access to any and all article
written within the journal. The American
Journal of Physics is one of the most highly respected journals in physics and
usually contains information on the biggest scientific achievements in
physics. It is a great site for finding
information about some of the really cool things that are happening in physics
right now.
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Physics Central
This
is another great site that provides information on anything new that’s going on
in the world of physics. It also takes a
look into the lives of the more prominent members of the physics society. This is probably not the site that upper
level physicists would go to, but for those just getting into it, it has a lot
of cool stuff on it.
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http://www.physicscentral.com/
Miscellaneous
Exploratorium: Sport
Science
I
came across this website when I was just surfing around on the internet and it
looked like a really cool site. It
breaks down the physics of a lot of the actions that occur in a variety of
different sporting events. If you are
trying to find ways of making physics exciting and get your students interested
in physics, then this is a great site to use because it takes everyday things
and talks about the physics involved.
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http://www.exploratorium.edu/sports/index.html
Discovery Channel:
Thrills, Chills, and Spills
This
isn’t the most informative sites, but it is a really cool thing to do when
discussing motion. The concept here is
to simply create a roller coaster using different pieces. The ultimate goal is to create the most
thrilling roller coaster ever. There is
physics involved in the measuring of the thrills, although they don’t discuss
it, because it is based on g-forces. It
is simply a fun activity for the students and is something that can be
discussed later, at which point the physics can be brought in.
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http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/coasters/interactive/interactive.html
Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory
This
is the official website of the Fermi Lab where they do a lot of really cool
stuff with accelerators. It is in this
lab where they were able to discover the identity of a few of the known
quarks. This a great site to let
students go to and look at all the exciting stuff going on in physics, while
being informed of a little physics in the process.
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