Physics: Internet Sources

This database provides access and search capability for NIST critically evaluated data on atomic energy levels, wavelengths, and transition probabilities that are reasonably up-to-date. The Atomic Spectroscopy Data Center has carried out these critical compilations.

This website provides the conversion relationship between U.S. customary units (e.g. inch and miles) and SI (International System) units. This website is authored by the Physical Measurement Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

CODATA Internationally recommended values of the fundamental physical constants.

A clickable table of elements. This table provides various x-ray properties for each element and it has also a script for calculating x-ray cross sections for a give energy.

It includes physical constants, data on spectroscopy, ionizing radiation and dosimetry, nuclear and condensed matter physics, and more.

Created by Greg Egan, these Java applets demonstrate physics and math concepts.

From the University of Colorado, PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. Currently, they have over 200 million simulations.

Physics 2000 relies heavily on the use of interactive applets to explain physics to a wide audience. It uses cartoon characters to explain the physics and students can set in motion or adjust these clever Java "experiments".

This site contains many of the old, classic, well-known favourite, as a well as new, physics demonstrations. Produced by the University of California Physics Department at Berkeley for their undergraduates. Subject includes from astronomy to magnetism to waves.

From UCLA, this website contains reference tables and interactive animations about physics. Topics include motion, electromagnetism, relativity, waves, light, sound, astronomy, heat and matter.

This MIT website teaches electromagnetism using visualisations and animations. It has video clips showing magnetic field lines billowing out from charged objects and current-carrying wires. Experiments showing Faraday's Law, radiation, electrostatics and magnetostatics. Produced by professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Founded in 1962, The History Programs mission is to preserve and make known the history of modern physics and its allied fields through our two joint programs, Center for History of Physics and Niels Bohr Library & Archives.

This is an archive of more than 75 citations of 20th century women who have made original and important contributions to physics. The citations describe briefly and document major scientific contributions and some biographical information mainly pertaining to the scientific lives of the women.

A collection of more than 30,000 historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials on American physicists and astronomers of the twentieth century, as well as many scientists in Europe and elsewhere, in other fields related to physics, and in earlier times. This is part of the Niels Bohr Library of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics.

A biographical online exhibition by The Center for History of Physics.

This features a detailed account of the history of Newton's archive, a summary of Newton's life and work, and a profusion of links to other historical, scientific and literary resources. For the technically-minded, there is also a full account of the Project's technical aspects and of their transcription and tagging policy.

The official website for Professor Stephen Hawking, the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and author of A Brief History of Time, which was an international bestseller.

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) contains virtually all MIT course content. It is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

A list of particle accelerators and accelerator laboratories around the world.

This is the member magazine of the Institute of Physics.

A site that links you to the latest news from various physics institutions and societies, reviews of science software, images of physicists, quotations, cartoons and physics humour, etc.

By Dr. Joseph P. Hornak, this is an online tutorial that explains the physics behind magnetic resonance images and the mathematics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. It includes a section on glossary and symbols.

"Princeton University Press proudly presents The Digital Einstein Papers, an open-access site for The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, the ongoing publication of Einstein's massive written legacy comprising more than 30,000 unique documents. The site presents all 15 volumes published to date by the editors of the Einstein Papers Project, covering the writings and correspondence of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) from his youth to 1923."

This website contains the legendary lectures from theoretical physicist, Richard Phillips Feynman, a Nobel laureate who has sometimes been called “The Great Explainer”. Produced by Caltech, this online edition is only free to read online and has been designed for ease of reading on devices of any size or shape.

This is a list of various laws, rules, principles, and other related topics in physics and astronomy created by Erik Max Francis.

The Particle Adventure is an award-winning site that introduces the theory of fundamental particles and forces, called the Standard Model. It also explores the experimental evidence and the reasons physicists want to go beyond this theory. Sponsored by the Particle Data Group, with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.