Beyond the Inclined Plane: Websites that explain and apply physics.
Internet teaching tools and classroom examples of everyday physics from biology, geology,
homes, and factories. Links to video clips, applets, and animations that help teach physics in the classroom.
1 Collections of general physics topics
3 Time, Distance, Speed, Acceleration, and One-Dimensional Motion
4 Two- and Three-Dimensional Motion
7 Impulse, Momentum, and Collisions
8.1 Teaching and learning tools
8.2 Freshman physics is all that is needed to model any system
8.3 Energy in humans and other species
8.5 Energy in our vehicles, homes, factories, and civilization
9 Torque, Rotation, and Rotational Motion
11 The Gravitational Force and Satellite Motion
12 Waves and Periodic and Vibrational Motion
Chapter 13 Properties of Materials
Chapter 14 Pressure and the Properties of Fluids
Chapter 16 Temperature and Thermal Expansion
Chapter 17 Heat and Heat Transfer
Chapter 18 Kinetic Theory, Equations of State, and Phase Changes
Chapter 19 Heat Energy and Work and The First Law of Thermodynamics
Chapter 20 Heat Engines and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Chapter 21 Molecular Properties of Matter
23 Static Electricity, the Electric Force and Coulomb’s Law
Chapter 25 Electrical Potential and Voltage
Chapter 28 Electrical Current, Resistance, and Ohm’s Law
Chapter 29 Direct-Current Circuits
Chapter 31 Magnetic Fields and Forces on Wires and Currents
Chapter 32 Induction and Induced Fields
Chapter 33 Magnetic Properties of Matter
Chapter 34 Alternating Currents
Chapter 35 Electromagnetic Waves and Light
Chapter 36 Interference, Diffraction, and Polarization
Chapter 37 Lenses and Mirrors, Refraction and Reflection
Chapter 38 Color and human vision
Chapter 39 Optical effects seen in the atmosphere
Chapter 41 Atoms and Molecules
Chapter 43 Elementary Particles
Chapter 45 Biographies and History of Science
Chapter 48 Geology, earth science,
Chapter 49 Biology and biophysics
Chapter 50 Science and Society Issues
Ask any physicist on the planet and he or she will tell you that the universe is full of amazing phenomena and that everything in the universe is physics. Since the universe is filled with physical phenomena, we have endless topics to serve as classroom examples. If we discuss its heating, charging, rate of fall, radioactive decay, relativistic motion, and magnetic and current carrying properties and such, then the inclined plane could serve as the only needed example in the classroom. But we physics teachers would be better off if instead, we take the advice of the marketers and use a baby in each and every example of physical phenomena, including its heating and cooling, thermal expansion, and index of refraction and such. People like babies. Simply having a baby in a picture makes people happy. Students would be happier in their physics course if every page discussed the physics of a baby or at least contained a picture of a baby. The most popular physics course of all would be the physics of babies.
It has been learned that enrollment increases in physics courses when a department offers a variety of courses meant to attract a variety of students seeking to satisfy their general-ed requirement in science. Possible courses include the physics of sports, the physics of music, and a course in each of such things as automobiles, tractors, everyday machines, Einstein, physics and philosophy, physics and religion, physics of the body for nursing students, and so on.
What is science?
Science consists of facts and understandings obtained from repeatable experiments. Each repeatable aspect of nature can be the basis of a medicine or machine. If an experiment is not repeatable then it can not be scientifically studied and will not be the basis of a medicine or machine, see the Skeptical Enquirer magazine at www.csicop.org/si/.
The following websites have more information about science, scientists, and research. Meet several scientists at www.askascientist.org/meet-scientist. Visit www.hhmi.org/becoming to see interviews with several scientists each describing scientists and the ingredients for scientific success. The Exploratorium has interviews with science team members at http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/cern/people/. You might like to visit the Royal Society at www.royalsoc.ac.uk and the Association for the Advancement of Society at www.aaas.org . Also visit the Research Channel at www.researchchannel.org and NAAS at http://www.scienceonline.org/.
What can be done with science?
The following websites have some of the most amazing results from scientific studies.
By carefully observing the Earth, physical scientists learn much about our world and its interrelated cycles, as seen in NASA’s music video Pulse of the Planet. Showing this video is a good way to start any science class.
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002300/a002395/
The NASA-IMAX film The Dream is Alive inspires students to study science.
NASA’s Beyond Einstein program has a video explanation of astronomical research.
http://universe.nasa.gov/resources/dvd/be.mpg
FreeScienceLectures has a video clip of Feynman explaining the beauty of a flower.
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=669501
The San Diego Supercomputer Center and The American Museum of Natural History Hayden Planetarium have made the video Volume Visualization of the Orion Nebula that takes one on a flight through the Orion Nebula, passing newly forming solar systems along the way.
http://vis.sdsc.edu/research/orion.html
NASA’s supernova animation depicts all of physics in one natural phenomenon.
http://t2www.nasa.r3h.net/centers/goddard/mpg/69478main_classic_supernova.mpg
NASA has a climate image of the week.
Science news for the classroom.
Frank Potter has a collection of science and math links,
or
www.sciencegems.com/physical.html
Why study physics?
What is light? We see the stuff as if it is something real but if we cannot hold it in our hand can it be real? How fast does it move? Why can you see through glass but not wood? What are the differences between water, glass, wood, iron, electricity, and air? Aren't they all made of atoms and molecules? What happens to wood when it burns? Where does it go? Is it still wood? What is sound, and how fast does it move? What's the difference between music and noise? What is an echo? When a whistling train or police car passes you, why does the whistle's tone change from high to low? How do you hear, see, smell, taste, and feel? Why do different things smell, taste, sound, appear, and feel different? Why is it so hard to force a ball to stay completely under water? Why do balloons float? When you spin a glass of water why does the center of the water move downward and its edges upward? How does a lever work? When you drive your car and turn a corner, why does all that stuff slide toward the side of the dash? How did that stuff know you had turned around the corner? What is the difference between ice, water, and steam? When you stretch a rubber-band and release it, what makes it snap back? Why doesn't a bent wire snap back into place? If you bend a wire back and forth it gets hot and breaks. Why? How does a magnet attract things? What is gravity? Does it pull in one direction or does it pull sideways, too? Is gravity the same thing as magnetism? How are mountains formed? Why does the Moon go around the Earth? Why don't we fall off the Earth? Why doesn't the Earth's atmosphere leak off into space? How big is the Earth? Where do clouds and the Sun go at night? Where do the stars go during the day? What are stars? Where has the Moon gone when we can't see it? Why does the Moon's shape change from night to night? Why are the Sun and Moon larger while they are rising and sitting? Do the Moon, Sun, clouds, and stars follow you as you walk down the street? Where does the sky end? Is it taller than it is wide? What is electricity? How is it different from magnetism and gravity? How does a gun make a bullet move? How do binoculars make things appear to be larger? Why does a pencil appear to bend when you put it into a glass of water? Is it bent? When you spill water on your shirt why does the shirt then appear darker? If the "darkness" is in the water, then why isn't a glass of water dark? When you slam on the brakes why do you fly forwards? Why doesn't the dust blow off your car when you drive down the highway at the posted speed limit? Why doesn't the dust blow off your home cooling fan? (Those things are always full of dust.) How does a drinking straw work? What in the world is a fire flame, and why does it rise? Why is the sky blue, and why does it turn red at sunset? What is lightning? What is thunder? Does one cause the other? What causes tornadoes and hurricanes? Why do the ice skaters spin faster when they pull their arms inward? What is heat and just how is it different from cold? What are the coldest and hottest temperatures that exist? Does hot flow toward cold or does cold flow toward hot? How does heat get into things? How does a coat keep you warm? How does sweating cool you off? When you place clothes in the dryer, where does the water go? When water boils, where do the bubbles come from? What is a cloud? Why are some clouds bright while others are dark? Why does that little patch of winter ice always form in the car window? How does the glass of ice-water get wet on the outside? What keeps a car window from frosting over when you park under a carport? How do geysers like "Old-Faithful" work? When you hold a spoon in the stream of a water faucet, sheets of water shoot out. What does this have to do with Space Shuttle engines? What is the difference between green and blue? The hairs of a paintbrush spread out when placed underwater but cling together when taken out of the water. Why? What is a rainbow? Why do camera lenses appear blue? Why does the doorknob sometimes give you that electric shock? What determines the color of an object? What are the Moon and the Sun? What are those funny little points of light in the nighttime sky? The Omni magazine has asked "If you place a lightbulb in the middle of a mirror-lined room and then turn off the light, why doesn't the room stay bright?" Why does a mirror reverse right and left but not up and down? Jearl Walker gives hundreds of examples of physics in everyday phenomena in his book The Flying circus of Physics. For example, hot water running into the sink doesn't splash as much as cold water and it sounds different. Why? Water falling out of a slightly-on faucet narrows as it falls? Why?
1 Collections of general physics topics
For teaching tips, see
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm
Movies and computer simulations bring the equations of physics to life. MIT has developed its Technology Enabled Active Learning, using visualizations in teaching physics interactively in freshman courses. They describe the approach as follows: “We combine desktop experiments with visualizations of those experiments to make the unseen seen.” Our pedagogy utilizes the following elements: 1. Collaborative learning--students work in groups of 3, with 9 students sitting at a round table and discussing electromagnetic phenomena. 2. Networked laptaps, one for each group of 3, with data acquisition links to desktop experiments that students perform and analyze. 3. Media-rich software for multimedia visualization, delivered via class laptops and the Web. 4. Extensive course notes with links to the visualizations. 5. Assessment showing learning gains a factor of 2 higher than traditional instruction.”
http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/teal_tour.htm
Edward F. Redish of the University of Maryland has an online textbook Teaching Physics With the Physics Suite that discusses techniques for teaching physics.
http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Book/
The Lab Archive has experiments to do in the lab course.
Search the multimedia library of the National Science Foundation.
http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_search.cfm
Wikibooks has a textbook of high school physics that you can create.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/High_school_physics
Physical Review Focus explains selected journal articles to students,
and it includes numerous graphics.
The Yahoo search engine includes an option to find video files.
You might like to use Google’s image search.
The Alta-Vista search engine will find video files.
The Exploratorium demonstrates and explains many phenomena.
The DMOZ open directory project lists websites.
http://dmoz.org/Science/Physics/
C.R. Nave of Georgia State University has developed the HyperPhysics website that contains thousands of topics and links and is visited by millions of people every year.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html
Larry Gladney at the University of Pennsylvania has an online textbook of physics,
http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/courses/gladney/mathphys/java/Contents.html
http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/courses/gladney/textbook/
http://www.physics.upenn.edu/courses/gladney/phys151/lectures/
and numerous animations that explain physics.
http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/courses/gladney/mathphys/animations_collection.html
Stuart Hutton of Lyon College has many Physics Simulations.
http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/shutton/simulationmovies/
Dr. Finkenthal of Palomar College has an on-line Physics course and solves many problems from the textbook by Tipler.
http://science.palomar.edu/physics/Physics230/index.html
The Physics Force group from the University of Minnesota performs their Physics Circus Demonstrations of motion, waves, and pressure. This group is referred to below as “The Physics Force team.”
http://groups.physics.umn.edu/pforce/pcircus.html
Wake Forest University has numerous video clips that demonstrate physics,
http://www.wfu.edu/physics/demolabs/demos/avimov/bychptr/bychptr.htm
www.wfu.edu/Academic-departments/Physics/demolabs/demos/avimov/bychptr/chptr1_motion.html
and links to the PIRA Webring.
http://www.wfu.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/cablem/wr-list.cgi
The North Carolina State University (NCSU) Physics DemoRoom has numerous video clips.
http://demoroom.physics.ncsu.edu/movies.html
Harvard University has a list of classroom demonstrations.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~scdiroff/lds/demotoc.html
T. Henderson of Glenbrook High has developed the online Physics Classroom to explain and illustrate physics, NextSet
www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/1DKin/1DKinTOC.html
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/shwave/index.html
and the Minds On Physics Internet Modules
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/mop/index.html
The Multimedia Physics Studio of The Physics Classroom has many animations.
www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/index.html
Many explanatory animations are shown at ActivePhysics On-line to accompany University Physics by Young and Freeman.
http://wps.aw.com/aw_young_physics_11
Paul Fastad’s website has numerous applets explaining waves, acoustics, signal processing, static electricity and magnetism, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, linear algebra, vector calculus, thermodynamics, and differential equations.
http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html
Michael Fowler and his students–Jacquie Hui Wan Ching, Heather Welch, Michael Timmins, and Aris Stylianopoulos–at the University of Virginia have made several flash animations that illustrate motion, collisions, and atoms.
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/more_stuff/Applets/home.html
The Harry S. Truman College has links to sites that illustrate various aspects of physics.
http://faculty.ccc.edu/tr-scimath/physics.htm
Science Hobbyist.
The edge of science.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~reginald/
Donald Simanek discusses what science is not,
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/home.htm
and some myths and mysteries of science.
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/scimyths/scimyths.htm
Is there antigravity or any overlooked relation between gravity and electromagnetism? See
http://www.zamandayolculuk.com/cetinbal/biefeldbrowneffect.htm
and
http://www.rexresearch.com/gravitor/gravitor.htm
The Naked Scientists Internet Science Radio Show.
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/Shows/Archive.htm
B.Surendranath Reddy has numerous applets.
http://www.surendranath.org/Applets.html
VisionLearning has a set of Flash animations illustrating the Bohr model of the atom, fusion, energy, Galileo’s experiment at the Tower of Pisa, convection within the Earth, and other chemical and biological phenomena.
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/animations.php
The National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan has many applets collected into their Virtual Physics Laboratory.
http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/
Jim Brubaker of the Friends Select School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has a collection of physics videos (register at the root).
http://65.106.156.80/Resources/Video.htm
The Hong Kong International School has a collection of videos.
http://dragonnet.hkis.edu.hk/hs/science/physics/video/dir.php
Jeff Phillips at the Loyola Marymount University has a website of physics links.
http://myweb.lmu.edu/jphillips/101_s03/misc.html
A. John Mallinckrodt of Cal Poly Pomona has many Interactive Physics™ animations from MSC.Working Knowledge™.
http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm/ip.html
R. Hays Cummins of Miami University has a searchable database of links.
http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/html/index.html
The physics department at the University of Minnesota has video clips of numerous demonstrations.
http://groups.physics.umn.edu/demo/
The physics department at the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, the Corner Brook campus, of Memorial University of Newfoundland has numerous physlets.
www.swgc.mun.ca/physics/physlets.html
The Doane College physics department has numerous video clips.
www.doane.edu/Dept_Pages/PHY/PhysicsVideoLibrary/videolibrary.html
The physics department at the University of North Carolina has numerous video clips.
http://courses.ncssm.edu/physics/video.htm
Daniel A. Russell of the applied physics department at Kettering University has numerous animations on his Science-Web-awarded site, see www.science-web-award.com.
www.gmi.edu/%7Edrussell/Demos.html
The Database of Physlets and other Science Applets.
ThePhysicsFront.org from the American Association of Physics Teachers, see www.aapt.org, has conceptual teaching aids.
www.compadre.org/precollege/search/gridFilter.cfm?courseType=1
The Exploratorium has Experiments to try using objects available at home.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/snacksbysubject.html
The National Science Digital Library is the Nation's FREE online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
Physics Education Technology project at the University of Colorado creates and tests interactive simulations of physical phenomena and supporting resources.
www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/web-pages/index.html
The University of Colorado has the Physics-2000 Interactive Demos.
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl
Richard Vawter of Western Washington University has many Interactive-Physics Simulations,
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~vawter/PhysicsNet/IPDemos/SimsMain.html
and Quicktime movies.
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~vawter/PhysicsNet/QTMovies/QT-Mech-Main.html
Students like to see what can be done with first-year physics. The following four websites have animations of systems explained by freshman physics but covered in second-year physics courses.
1) Jack Ord has numerous Java applets of systems and he includes the source code.
http://www.kw.igs.net/~jackord/j6.html#p1d
2) Erik Neumann has many Java animations.
3) Maciej Matyka has many physics simulations.
http://panoramix.ift.uni.wroc.pl/~maq/eng/index.php
4) The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has many animations.
http://www.psc.edu/research/graphics/storms/
Rami Arieli of Weizmann University has "The Laser Adventure" Java Applets List that includes laser, reflection, and refraction applets.
http://perg.phys.ksu.edu/vqm/laserweb/Java/Javaliste.htm
Glenn A Carlson of St Charles Community College has many video clips of physical systems.
http://www.stchas.edu/faculty/gcarlson/physics/demos.htm
Doug Craigen at http://www.dctech.com/physics/animations.php recommends Mathematica animations of quantum mechanics by Stephanie Staley and Chris H. Greene at the University of Colorado.
http://condon.colorado.edu/~chg/Physics3220/Animations.html
The Exploratorium links to physics sites.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cool/physics.html
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has a list of websites that contain resources for teaching astronomy.
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/resources.html
Andrew Fraknoi of Foothill College and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific has a list of websites.
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/educsites.html
Siltec has Computer Animations of Physical Processes.
http://physics.nad.ru/start.htm
Tony DiMAuro of San Diego State University has a collection of links.
http://tonydude.net/NaturalScience100/natsci100.html
Josh Deutsch of the University of California at Santa Cruz has an online ebook for his introductory physics course,
http://physics.ucsc.edu/~josh/6A/book/index.html
and he also has a collection of mechanics applets.
http://physics.ucsc.edu/~josh/6A/javamechanics/index.html
Bala Maheswaran of Northeastern University in Boston has a collection of animations.
http://www.dac.neu.edu/physics/b.maheswaran/phy1121/data/anim.htm
North Harris College in Houston has a list of sources of science animations.
http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/animatio.htm
Greb Bothun of the University of Oregon maintains the Electronic Universe of science.
Keith Warren of North Caroline State University links to 7500 online physics demonstrations.
http://www.physics.ncsu.edu/pira/demosite.html
Robin Jordan of Florida Atlantic University is developing online lab experiments,
http://physics.fau.edu/Research/Education/education.html
numerous explanatory notes and animations,
http://courses.science.fau.edu/%7Erjordan/phy2044/rev_notes.htm
and has online audio tapes of his lectures for first semester,
http://courses.science.fau.edu/%7Erjordan/phy2043/home.htm
and second semester physics.
http://courses.science.fau.edu/%7Erjordan/phy2044/rev_notes.htm
The Physics Department of the University of California, Davis has developed the ElectroCard tutorial of electricity and magnetism.
http://maxwell.ucdavis.edu/~electro/
George and Marcia Rieke of the University of Arizona have many animations, gifs, and videos.
http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/movies/
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has many animations.
http://www.psc.edu/research/graphics/storms/
Phil Fraundorf discusses numerous topics.
http://newton.umsl.edu/~philf/index.html
Oswego City School District has video clips for physics tests.
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/physics/physics.cfm
Visit the Cavendish Science Organization.
http://www.cavendishscience.org/
David G. Alciatore of Colorado State University - Fort Collins has numerous videos.
http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~dga/high_speed_video/index.html
The WebPhysics project by Wolfgang Christian and Gregor Novak has many physlets.
http://webphysics.davidson.edu
and
http://webphysics.davidson.edu/physlet_resources/
The PIRA organization aids physics teachers with demonstration and laboratory information,
http://www.wfu.edu/physics/pira/
see for example,
http://www.wfu.edu/physics/pira/pira200/Mechanics.html
Syracuse University Physics Department has created many Educational Modules & Simulations.
http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modsim.html
Bala Maheswaran of Northeastern University links to several videos and animations.
http://www.dac.neu.edu/physics/b.maheswaran/phy1121/
NASA and JPL have introuductory tutorials explaining various aspects of flight,
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/index.html
and the basics of space flight.
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/
The Physics Question of the Week by the University of Maryland Department of Physics.
http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/outreach/QOTW/active/questions.htm
David MacKay’s has comments about these questions and has categorized them.
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/teaching/dynamics/umdcomments.html
Dr Universe answers questions.
http://www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse/
The Open Directory Project is a volunteer-edited directory of the Web.
http://dmoz.org/Science/Physics/
Liverpool John Moores University has many videos.
http://www.astro.livjm.ac.uk/courses/one/IMAGES/
Pui K. Lam of the University of Hawaii has class lectures and animations for an introductory physics course.
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~plam/ph272A.2004/Lecture_Notes/
The Green and White school has class lectures and animations for an introductory physics course.
http://www.greenandwhite.net/~chbut/kinematics.htm
PlanetPhysics is a virtual community which aims to help make physics knowledge more accessible. PlanetPhysics's content is created collaboratively: the main feature is the physics encyclopedia with entries written and reviewed by members.
zaq12wsx here
The Physics and Astronomy Animations Project of Penn State - Schuylkill explains numerous aspects of nature, see
http://phys23p.sl.psu.edu/CWIS/SPT--Home.php
and
http://phys23p.sl.psu.edu/phys_anim/PA.html
Phillip R. Dukes of the University of Texas at Brownsville has numerous applets, simulations, and virtual experiments,
http://pdukes.phys.utb.edu/PhysApplets/appmenu.htm
and Dukes links to a catalog of recently published Science News articles that are online.
http://www.phschool.com/science/science_news/index.html
MIT has a collection of animations and applets, see
http://web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www/anim.html
and
http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/teal_tour.htm
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has several educational modules,
http://links.math.rpi.edu/index.html
and electricity and magnetism links.
http://links.math.rpi.edu/webhtml/EMindex.html
Use the University of Colorado’s spider to search through the University Physics Lecture Demonstration Websites of over 50 schools.
http://physicslearning.colorado.edu:9999/vestris/QuerySp.html
Alan Scott of the University of Wisconsin-Stout has a collection of animations.
http://physics.uwstout.edu/staff/scott/animate.html
Mainland School in Daytona Beach, Florida has on-line lab experiments.
http://dev.physicslab.org/TOC.aspx
Nori Mari has many Java animations.
http://www2.biglobe.ne.jp/~norimari/science/JavaApp/e-JavaP.html
Scott Schneider of Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan has many physlets.
http://qbx6.ltu.edu/s_schneider/physlets/main/
Paul Nylander has numerous animations of physical systems, including billiards.
http://www.bugman123.com/Physics/Physics.html
The Web Lecture Archive Project contains 300 video lectures.
http://webcast.cern.ch/Projects/WebLectureArchive/
L. Stanley Durkin of Ohio State has many links.
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~durkin/phys132/
Physikshow from the Universität Bonn contains video clips of numerous demonstrations.
http://www.physikshow.uni-bonn.de/
and
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=physikshow+bonn&search=Search
MIT has a collection of video demonstrations.
http://web.mit.edu/6.013_book/www/Video.html
The Institute of Physics has resources for teaching high school physics.
The UCLA Physics Department has descriptions and video of classroom demonstrations.
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/demoweb/demomanual/table_of_contents.html
Des Penny of Southern Utah University has numerous applets for first,
http://www.suu.edu/faculty/penny/Phsc2210/Physlets/PhysletsForWeb/Semester1/menu_semester1.html
and second semester physics.
http://www.suu.edu/faculty/penny/Phsc2210/Physlets/PhysletsForWeb/Semester2/menu_semester2.html
Penny recommends the has numerous applets of Anne J. Cox at Eckerd College.
Mr. Richert of Hazelwood has links to numerous applets.
http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/sciweb/applets.html
Erik Max Francis has a collection of links,
http://www.alcyone.com/max/index.html
and a list of physical phenomena.
http://www.alcyone.com/max/physics/laws/a.html
The Demonstration Database of the Department of Applied Physics of the Delft University of Technology.
Documentary Educational Resources
http://www.der.org/films/index-by-title.html
The Department of Physics at the University of California Berkeley has a collection of physics links for Electromagnetic waves, physical optics, relativity and quantum physics.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~phy7c/key.html
Video analysis shareware is available can be used to study motion. NextCollection xxx
http://www.physicstoolkit.com/
Mats Selen of the University of Illinois has the Wise Guy Clips.
http://web.hep.uiuc.edu/home/MATS/wg2005.html
E. Etkina, A Van Heuvelen, D. Brookes have a Physics Teaching Technology Resource that includes numerous videos of physical phenomena.
http://paer.rutgers.edu/PT3/index.php
The previous website is a member of the PIRA Webring that aids physics teachers with demonstration and laboratory information. The PIRA Ring includes Saint Mary's University, Halifax, N.S., Canada,
http://www.ap.stmarys.ca/demos/navigation/navigation_frames.html
and Walter F. Smith of Haverford University,
http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/
and Java Applets on Physics by Walter Fendt.
http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/
or
http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph11e/
and
http://www.shep.net/resources/curricular/physics/java/physengl/physengl.htm
Dolores Gende has a collection of educational links,
http://apphysicsb.homestead.com/vls.html
including the Physics Web,
http://physicsweb.org/resources/Education/
and Interactive Physics and Math with Java by Sergey Kiselev and Tanya Yanovsky-Kiselev,
http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/applets/Intro_physics/kisalev/
and Judson Wagner’s Physics Animations,
http://www.members.aol.com/judsonewagner/
and Physics Java Applets by C. K. Ng,
http://www.ngsir.netfirms.com/englishVersion.htm
and Physlets from Davidson College,
http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/classroom.html
and the online accompaniments to the standard freshman texts.
http://sciphys.homestead.com/index2.html
The Video Encyclopedia of Physics is a collection of classroom videos.
Wolfgang Christian and Gregor Novak from Davidson College have information about creating physics applets.
http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Applets/Applets.html
The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, see www.merlot.org/Home.po, lists hundreds of physics websites of collections and animations.
http://www.merlot.org/artifact/BrowseArtifacts.po?discipline=Physics&firsttime=true
The physics department of the University of Oregon has numerous applets.
The Harry S. Truman College lists numerous websites containing applets and simulations.
http://faculty.ccc.edu/tr-scimath/physics.htm
http://faculty.ccc.edu/tr-scimath/intro.htm#EP
The Vienna University of Technology, Austria has a library of online material.
www.ub.tuwien.ac.at/englweb/resource.htm
Wikibooks, is a collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikibooks includes physics textbooks that might help our students.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Physics
Search the NASA website for specific topics,
www.nasa.gov/lb/centers/goddard/multimedia/index.html
or for multimedia.
Students considering a career in science can use the information given at the Sloan Career Cornerstone Center.
The Roger Bacon High School has a collection of physics videos.
www.rogerbacon.org/~jgutzwiller/
The University of California at Berkeley has many video clips.
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/physics/interest.html
Raman Pfaff of the University of New Haven has several animations.
http://physci.kennesaw.edu/javamirror/explrsci/dswmedia/index.htm
Michael R. Gallis and Dr. Ping Wang of Penn State University has many simulations and animations.
http://rt210.sl.psu.edu/phys_anim/Phys_anim.htm
See Donald Simanek's Physics Toys, Tricks and Teasers, The Frugal Physicist's Demo Collection.
www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/scenario/toytrick.htm
Thanks to Donald Simanek for his Ideal Scientific Equipment Company.
www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/ideal/ideal.htm
The operation of the human body involves much physics. Richard J. Ingebretsen’s The Physics of the Human Body discuses the forces on muscles, a PV diagram for the breathing process, the heart, hearing, and medical imaging and treatment.
www.physics3110.org/images/body_manu.pdf
Physics Web has a list of online textbooks,
http://physicsweb.org/resources/Education/Electronic_textbooks/
and interactive experiments for students to run online.
http://physicsweb.org/resources/Education/Interactive_experiments/
Richard Fitzpatrick of University of Texas at Austin has an online textbook of mechanics, including worked examples.
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/301/lectures/
The book Numerical Recipes can be downloaded.
Download computer code from the GNU Scientific Library.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/
The Museum of Retro-Technology has a collection of unusual machinery.
www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/museum.htm
The MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories maintains the Semiconductor Subway providing links to semiconductor and microsystems information, including fabrication facilities, research activities, and standards work.
http://mtlweb.mit.edu/semisubway/semisubway.html
See also, the Laboratories Subway with links to U.S. Micro/Nanofabrication Research Facilities.
http://mtlweb.mit.edu/semisubway/fabs_subway.html
Henry Greenside of Duke University has Physics Challenge questions.
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~hsg/physics-challenges/challenges.html
Newtonian Physics by Benjamin Crowell is available online.
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Newtonian/
Benjamin Crowell has online textbooks of physics and astronomy,
http://www.lightandmatter.com/
xxxx in the middle of http://cablespeed.com/~exit60/phyweb.html at hackensck hs
including a glossary of physics terms.
http://www.lightandmatter.com/area1glossary.shtml
Patrick H. Canan's book A Beginner's Guide to Classical Physics has numerous worked problems and is available online.
http://www.csd509j.net/chs/departments/science/physics/main.html
Download online books from the Online Books Page of the University of Pennsylvania.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The World Lecture Hall of the University of Texas at Austin has a list of physics textbooks that are available online.
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/results.cfm?from=browse&count=1&DescriptorId=66
For a diverse collection of problems, see Physics for Everyone by Barbara Whitten.
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Dept/PC/RepresentativePhy/Pages/home.htm
Professor Tai-Kai Ng of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has on line lectures and Mechanical Universe video.
http://physics.ust.hk/genphys/physicsworld.htm
Dennis F. Houk of West Shore Community College has an on-line physics course
http://www.westshore.edu/personal/dfhouk/onlinephysics/interactive_physics_material.htm
that includes many animations.
http://www.westshore.edu/personal/dfhouk/physicsweb/physcimov.html
Joseph E. Finck has an online edition of Physics for athletes and other serious students.
http://www.phy.cmich.edu/people/andy/Physics110/Book/Phy110.htm
Learn Physics Today is an online physics tutorial developed by Keiji Oenoki, Kazushi Oenoki, Hector Judez, Hyun Ku Cho, and John Lakatos at Colegio Franklin D. Roosevelt in Lima, Peru.
http://library.advanced.org/10796/index.html
Martin John Baker summarizes the physics of computer games.
http://www.euclideanspace.com/physics/
David J. Raymond of New Mexico Tech has an online textbook that covers physics in the more interesting order that begins with modern physics and ends with classical physics.
http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond/classes/ph13xbook/node1.html
Richard Fitzpatrick of the University of Texas at Austin has an online textbook of physics.
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/301/lectures/lectures.html
The Ohio state University Physics Department has an online textbook for their Energy and Technology course.
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~p670/Wi04/woeb.php
The M. Casco Learning Center has textbooks of physics that are available online.
Bill Baird of the College of Charleston has online lecture notes for physics and astronomy.
http://www.bme.unc.edu/~bbaird/
http://elm.bme.unc.edu/~bbaird/
David J. Raymond of New Mexico Tech has an onlinebook A Radically Modern Approach to Introductory Physics.
http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond/classes/ph13xbook/bookc.html
Koç University has placed online much of their classroom material for a set of physics courses.
http://home.ku.edu.tr/~aserpenguzel/courses.htm
The Physics Department of the University of Arkansas has online course summaries,
http://www.uark.edu/depts/physinfo/up1/chapter.htm
and individual chapters.
http://www.uark.edu/depts/physinfo/up1/chap3.pdf
Randy Kobes and Gabor Kunstatter of the University of Winnipeg present lecture notes and textbooks of physics,
http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/physics/
modern technology,
http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/mod_tech/node1.html
and other courses.
Glenn Elert and students have written The Chaos Hypertextbook,
http://hypertextbook.com/chaos/
and are writing a physics textbook.
http://hypertextbook.com/physics/
Richard Fitzpatrick at UT Austin has online lecture notes for many courses.
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching.html
The Department of Computer Science, Mathematics & Physics, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados has online lecture notes.
http://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/cmp/online/online.htm
Richard Fitzpatrick of the University of Texas at Austin has lectures for several courses.
Thomas M. Christensen of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs has an online lectures for his course Physics in Everyday Life.
http://www.uccs.edu/~tchriste/courses/PES100/100lectures/index.html
Selman Hershfield of the University of Florida has an online introductory physics course.
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~phy3054/
The Net Advance of Physics: Annotated Physics Encyclopædia.
http://web.mit.edu/redingtn/www/netadv/ii.html
Find an online textbook or lecture.
http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/#Physics
Ibiblio.org has online science textbooks.
http://www.ibiblio.org/collection/collection.php?primary=7
The Institute of Physics has a list of electronic textbooks.
http://physicsweb.org/resources/Education/Electronic_textbooks/
Distance Learning and Education Services has several online textbooks. NextTextbook xxx
http://www.distancelearning-tz.org/news.htm
www.softpedia.com has freeware and shareware software downloads.
For Macs, see http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Math-Scientific/index23.shtml
Joseph Becker of San Jose State University has an online physics textbook.
http://www.physics.sjsu.edu/becker/physics51/index.htm
The Physics Department of the College of Saint Benedict - Saint John's University has an online textbook of quantum mechanics, and they recommend the next three links.
http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/QM/Index.html
J.J. Binney has an online textbook of advanced classical mechanics.
http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/user/JamesBinney/cmech.pdf
James Nearing of the University of Miami has an online textbook of mathematical physics.
http://www.physics.miami.edu/~nearing/mathmethods/
Here is a list of online textbooks for mathematics and physics.
http://us.geocities.com/alex_stef/mylist.html
and science.
http://www.techbooksforfree.com/science.shtml
such as Calculus-Based Physics by Jeffrey W. Schnick.
http://www.anselm.edu/internet/physics/cbphysics/index.html
Structure and interpretation of classical mechanics by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom
with Meinhard E. Mayer.
Newtonian Physics by Ben Crowell.
http://www.andamooka.org/reader.pl?section=newtphys
Textbook Revolution has free, online textbooks,
http://textbookrevolution.org/
including physics texts.
http://textbookrevolution.org/Textbooks/Physics.html
Joseph W. Howard of Salisbury University placed his physics lectures online.
http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~jwhoward/Physics121/html/lec.htm
Louis A. Blomfield has an online collection of everyday examples of physics taken from his book How Everything Works: Making Physics out of the Ordinary.
http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW/complete.html
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Georgia, Athens has an online collection of answers to Ask the Physicist! questions from the public.
http://www.physast.uga.edu/ask_phys_q&a_old.html
The Department of Physics at Central Michigan University has a list of physics demonstrations.
http://frances.phy.cmich.edu/phy_demo/phy_demo.htm
Harvard University Natural Science Lecture Demonstrations.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~scdiroff/lds/main.html
Glenn Elert’s students measured various physical quantities and place them in the Physics Factbook website.
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/index-topics.shtml
Glenn recommends another website of measurements by R.L. Childers and his students at the University of South Carolina.
http://solomon.physics.sc.edu/%7Etedeschi/midway/analysis.html
The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee has an online table of physical constants.
http://www.sewanee.edu/physics/QUANTUM_MECHANICS/PHYSICAL-CONSTANTSCOLOR.html
They recommend the on-line book Physics Formulary by J. C. A. Wevers.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/physics.pdf
NIST has a table of physical constants,
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/contents.html
and mathematical functions.
Maurice Barnhill of the University of Delaware has a table of the units of common physical qunatities.