Web Directory

» A Prelude to the Study of Physics
   A paper first published in Quantum Vol 7 No 2, pg. 45, Nov/Dec 1996.
   http://www.winbeam.com/~trebor/prelude.html

» A Radically Modern Approach to Introductory Physics
   A text by David J. Raymond.
   http://www.physics.nmt.edu/~raymond/books/radbook1.pdf

» APS - Division of Physics of Beams
   History of beam physics research, and current information on the topic.
   http://bt.pa.msu.edu/brochure/

» Advancing Physics AS/A2 Level Course from the Institute of Physics
   Provides resources for Teachers, Students and Technicians involved in the study of AS or A2 Level Physics.
   http://advancingphysics.iop.org

» Andes Physics Tutor
   Andes is an intelligent tutoring system which teaches students how to solve physics problems. It provides a complete set of homework problems for an introductory college physics course or a high school AP physics course.
   http://www.andestutor.org/

» Animations of Wave Motion
   Animated GIFs and a discussion of some of the math involved.
   http://physics.usask.ca/~hirose/ep225/anim.htm

» Art Ludwig's Sound Page
   Various explorations of sound, sound detection and sound measurement. Includes a section on physics of sound.
   http://www.silcom.com/~aludwig/

» Assessing-to-Learn (A2L)
   A research project on the use of continuous formative assessment in the high-school physics classroom. Provides participating teachers with a library of assessment items (carefully constructed questions) to choose from for their classes, and with an assoc
   http://a2l.physics.umass.edu/

» Astrophysics Science Project Integrating Research and Education (ASPIRE)
   Site dedicated to helping teachers with lessons in physics and astrophysics by giving computer activities that help show how physical models work.
   http://outreach.physics.utah.edu/

» Bad Physics
   Misunderstood things in physics with simple explanations.
   http://www.geoffers2000.freeserve.co.uk/

» Bicycle Physics
   The physics of how to steer a bicycle, and how stop signs interfere with bicycle commuting.
   http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~fajans/Teaching/bicycles.html

» Cartoons and Movies
   Some diagrams and movies illustrating some otherwise abstract electrical principles.
   http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~fajans/Teaching/cartoons/

» Challenges In Teaching and Learning Introductory Physics
   Addresses the troubles presented in introductory physics courses taken by students in their first two years of college.
   http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~airboy/challenge.html

» Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics
   This page describes the errors seen most frequently in undergraduate mathematics, the likely causes of those errors, and their remedies. Avoid these errors in order to improve in any math-intensive course, including physics.
   http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/commerrs/

» Communities for Physics and Astronomy Digital Resources in Education (comPADRE)
   A project to create well organized, digital collections of high quality educational materials in physics and astronomy. ComPADRE consists of focused collections of materials for specific courses or serving specific constituencies, with connections to a wi
   http://www.compadre.org/

» Computer Simulation Methods
   A web site devoted to faculty and students using computer simulation techniques as a method of discovery in physics. This is a companion site to a textbook, but provides content from other sources as well.
   http://sip.clarku.edu/

» Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP)
   A non-profit organization of teachers, educators, and physicists; at Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
   http://www.cpepweb.org/

» CosmoLearning Physics
   Educational website offering thousands of courses, books and video lectures by the world's top scholars.
   http://www.cosmolearning.com/physics/

» Dot Physics
   A collection of articles using physics in interesting ways and providing projects appropriate for high school or introductory college level classes.
   http://www.dotphys.net

» Dropping in a Microgravity Environment (DIME)
   NASA high-school and middle school student team science competition. Teams build microgravity experiments for a NASA drop tower.
   http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/DIME.html

» Essential Physics
   A book for first-year college students who have an interest in pursuing a career in physics or a closely related field.
   http://www.physicsforfree.com/essential.html

» Exploring Physics in Cyberspace
   This site describes several tested extracurricular programs geared to introducing hands-on interactive physics activities for K-12 students. Supported by the National Science Foundation.
   http://epic.physics.missouri.edu/html/aboutprgm.htm

» FYKOS - Physical Correspondence Seminary
   Worldwide competition in physics for grammar school (under age 19) students with an interest in physics.
   http://fykos.troja.mff.cuni.cz/

» Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST
   The values of the fundamental physical constants provided at this site are recommended for international use by CODATA and are the latest available.
   http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html

» GRE Physics Prep
   Yahoo group for people preparing for GRE Physics.
   http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/physicsgre/

» Glass: Liquid or Solid - Science vs. an Urban Legend
   Addressing the widespread misconception according to which glass is a liquid.
   http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C01/C01Links/www.ualberta.ca/~bderksen/florin.html

» HSC Physics
   School of Physics, University of New South Wales. Details about professional development workshops for physics teachers intended to provide background and advice on the Stage 6 HSC syllabus. Some resources related to this workshop are found on the site.
   http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/hsc/

» Henry Greenside's Duke Physics Challenges
   Physics-related word-problem puzzles.
   http://www.phy.duke.edu/~hsg/physics-challenges/challenges.html

» How Atoms Work
   Shows how man determined the structure of the atom and learned how atoms interacted with each other.
   http://www.howstuffworks.com/atom.htm

» How Everything Works
   A service providing answers to questions about physics, science, and how things in the world around us work. Companion to the book by Louis Bloomfield called How Things Work.
   http://www.howeverythingworks.org/

» How Things Work
   A service providing answers to questions about physics, science, and how things in the world around us work. Companion to the book by the same name.
   http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/

» How to Study Physics
   A University of Texas classic, written before the web was around, but now revised and web-ready.
   http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/chapman.htm

» HyperPhysics Concepts
   A concept map of physics showing relationships between topics while giving explanations and references.
   http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html

» I Love Physics Forum
   Discuss physics education and related topics that come up in discussions about physics.
   http://www.ilovephysics.com/forum/

» Innovations in Undergraduate Physics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
   Several recent developments have stimulated a major revitalization of UIUC's introductory physics curriculum. Here are the details. Also includes references, previous presentations, and course outlines.
   http://research.physics.uiuc.edu/PER/Course_Revisions.html

» Institute of Physics (IOP) - Teaching Physics in Schools and Colleges
   A website aimed at those with an interest in the teaching and learning of physics in schools and colleges. The site provides visitors with information about the current activities of the IOP education department including details of forthcoming events, ne
   http://www.iop.org/activity/outreach/Resources/file_5978.pdf

» Interactive Physics Scenarios by A. John Mallinckrodt
   A collection of intermediate and advanced level modules in mechanics, gravitation, thermodynamics, and electrostatics for use with the Interactive Physics software distributed by MSC Working Knowledge.
   http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm/ip.html

» International Physics Olympiads
   Regional and international physics olympiads. Information, mailing lists, and links to all the IPhO problems available on the web.
   http://www.jyu.fi/ipho/

» Intuitor - Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
   Reviews and rates Hollywood movies for bad physics content.
   http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/

» Kenny Felder's Math and Physics Help Page
   A collection of papers written to explain various concepts in math and physics, as well as papers generously donated by other people.
   http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/kenny/home.html

» MIT OpenCourseWare - Physics
   Undergraduate and graduate courses available for noncredit study and review. Materials provided may include syllabi, reading assignments, videotaped lectures, problem sets with solutions, lecture notes, and exams with solutions.
   http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/

» Mathematical Thinking in Physics
   Articles, essays, and problems designed for students to learn more about the importance of math in the study and application of physics.
   http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/Numbers/Math/Mathematical_Thinking/index.htm

» Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
   Peer-reviewed online teaching and learning materials for physics.
   http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?category=2736

» NSTA - Position Statement on Laboratory Science
   Since the laboratory experience is of critical importance in the process of enhancing students' cognitive and affective understanding of science, the National Science Teachers Association makes the following recommendations.
   http://www.nsta.org/about/positions/laboratory.aspx

» New Physics Teacher Project
   Advice for the first year physics teacher gathered from interviews with expert physics educators.
   http://earthfuture.tripod.com/mp/adviceproject.html

» Open Source Physics
   The OSP project seeks to create and distribute curricular material for physics computation and physics education at all levels.
   http://www.compadre.org/osp/

» Open Text
   Project to provide high quality free physics teaching materials to anyone who has access to the Internet. Similar to the “open source” concept for computer software. A cooperative building site for physics materials.
   http://www3.baylor.edu/Physics/open_text/

» PADs
   PADs are interactive Java applets that provide a wide range of ways to represent data and evaluate the correctness of those representations. This site provides exercises and resources on their use.
   http://www.wku.edu/pads/

» PhysMov.com
   Provides several videos and lectures on a range of physics topics.
   http://physmov.com

» Physclips
   Provides physics animations, learning and reference tools for students and resources for teachers. The level is approximately that of introductory university or advanced high school.
   http://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/

» Physical Science Resource Center (PSRC)
   This site has plenty of resources for physics and physical science teachers K-16.
   http://www.compadre.org/psrc/

» Physical Science for Nonscientists - Physics 1020 (2nd Semester)
   Course website at University of Colorado. Includes lecture notes in pdf format.
   http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phys1020/phys1020_sp05/

» Physics 2000
   An interactive journey through modern physics. Have fun learning visually and conceptually about 20th century science and high-tech devices. Uses java applets.
   http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl

» Physics Central
   The outreach site of the members of The American Physical Society. Find out how physics is part of your world, ask questions on how things work, see physics in pictures, get updates on physics in the news, read about research and the people who are doing
   http://www.physicscentral.org/

» Physics Comics
   Comics-style lessons in physics fundamentals. Topics include motion, forces, vectors, work and energy, and impulse and momentum.
   http://www.bmts.com/~stoeckli/

» Physics Handbook.com
   Provides an easy to use online physics textbook including laws, tables, experiments, a quiz and videos.
   http://www.physicshandbook.com/

» Physics Laws and Quizzes
   Solve some problems using the fundamental laws and be announced as a Quiz Master.
   http://members.tripod.com/arilizi/

» Physics Pointers
   Physics reading guides, links to physics websites, teaching tips, and physics activities.
   http://physicspointers.com/

» Physics Reference
   Physics symbols, constants, and SI units, prefixes and rules.
   http://www.alcyone.com/max/reference/physics/index.html

» Physics Simulations - Teaching Programs
   Free and commercial site with physics programs and some other materials available for download and/or sale. No Macintosh materials offered.
   http://www.colba.net/~htran/physics/

» Physics Simulations in Education
   ZIP-format files for DOS or Windows covering a variety of physics phenomena and applications.
   http://www.clab.unibe.ch/physim/index.htm

» Physics Teacher Education Program
   Information on a BSc degree in physics teaching from Illinois State University.
   http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/pte/

» Physics Virtual Bookshelf
   A collection mostly of University of Toronto physics professor David M. Harrison's various presentations and course materials.
   http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/All.html

» Physics at Merton College
   Matters related to the AS-level and A-level physics courses. The material covers topics in physics and its related mathematics and will supplement one's normal classwork.
   http://www.lokon.demon.co.uk/

» Physics for Idiots
   Provides simple explanations for a number of physics, space and maths concepts, trying to break them down into stuff that actually makes sense.
   http://www.physicsforidiots.com

» Physics, the Neglected Science
   Pages to help increase awareness about the value of physics and to lend support to high school physics students, teachers, and parents.
   http://www.intuitor.com/physics/

» Practical Physics
   Enables teachers of physics to share their skills and experience of making experiments work in the classroom.
   http://www.practicalphysics.org/

» Professor Stephen Hawking Online
   Biographical, educational, and scholarly. Also includes a bit of fun (did you know he was on The Simpsons TV show?)
   http://www.hawking.org.uk/

» QuarkNet
   Supports centers at 60 universities and laboratories that are participants in the collider experiments at CERN in Switzerland and at Fermilab in Illinois. Physicists will mentor and collaborate with high school teachers. Stipends are provided to the teach
   http://quarknet.fnal.gov/

» Radiation Physics and Radiocarbon Research Labs at University College Dublin
   Specialises in the measurement of minute traces of artificial and natural radionuclides in the environment.
   http://www.ucd.ie/radphys/

» School Mathematics and Science Programs Benefit From Instructional Technology
   NSF report summarizes key findings about mathematics and science in controlled evaluations of instructional technology in elementary and secondary schools.
   http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf03301/

» Science Animations
   Provides a number of Flash animations to supplement handbooks in physics, maths and technology.
   http://www.science-animations.com/

» Science-Pseudoscience
   Science, non-science and pseudoscience: a set of lessons to teach students to define and differentiate the three.
   http://www.chem1.com/chemed/flimflam.shtml

» Select Physics Topics
   This physics online ebook covers basic physics from Newton's laws to electricity and magnetism. Lots of applets and animation included.
   http://www.science-ebooks.com/phy/select_physics_topics.htm

» Simple Electric Motors
   Summary of science projects by Stan Pozmantir, a junior secondary student. Easy-to-build and inexpensive electric motors utilizing many physics principles.
   http://www.simplemotor.com/

» Society of Physics Students (SPS)
   Complete set of information for members of any level of SPS. Scholarships and awards, news, activities, staff, structure, online forms, student resources, and links to significant physics sites.
   http://www.spsnational.org/

» Space and Time
   Course based on Stephen Hawking's best selling book, "A Brief History of Time". The course deals with topics in modern physics such as Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, Quantum Theory, Black Holes and the Creation of the Universe.
   http://info.hartwick.edu/physics/spacetime.html

» Spacetime Wrinkles
   Major advances in computation are only now enabling scientists to simulate how black holes form, evolve, and interact. Learn about relativity and its predictions through text and video files at this site.
   http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/NumRelHome.html

» Srivastava's Physics Foundation
   Offers free educational material for students preparing for various competitive physics examinations. Includes more than 100 flashlets, modules, test papers and theory lessons.
   http://www.mksfoundation.com

» Static Electricity
   Scientific explanation of the phenomenon of static electricity.
   http://www.electrostatics.com/page2.html

» Study Help Zone
   Offers study support for physics and chemistry students. Includes online tutoring, physics help and problems, chemistry help, and advice for students sitting examinations.
   http://studyhelpzone.com

» Super Physics
   Provides educational articles about physics including such topics as relativity, quantum theory and lasers as well as general physics.
   http://superphysics.netfirms.com

» TYC Physics Workshops
   Information about workshops provided for two-year or community college physics teachers and the products of this project.
   http://tycphysics.org/

» Teralab
   Descriptions and photographs of electrostatics, electron bombardment and wave experiments done with home equipment.
   http://www.rhunt.f9.co.uk/

» The Elements of Machines
   Some simple machines, explained, described and illustrated.
   http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html

» The Evil Tutor's Guide: Graphs and Figures
   An amusing, yet sincere, look at where students go wrong when producing scientific graphs for school, college and degree level work.
   http://www.eviltutor.com

» The Motion Mountain Physics Text
   A free physics textbook on the introductory physics course level, written to be surprising, entertaining, and thought-provoking. Chapters are downloadable pdf files.
   http://motionmountain.dse.nl/

» The Physics Encyclopedia
   This site provides exhaustive, comprehensive, carefully selected and structured lists on Internet physics resources.
   http://members.tripod.com/~IgorIvanov/physics/

» The Physics of Learning
   Extending a physics analogy to teaching and learning creates a rich set of terms and relationships that are already familiar to scientists. This paper defines those terms, suggests methods for quantifying those terms and thus provides teachers with a meth
   http://icn2.umeche.maine.edu/instruments/PHYSLRNR.html

» The Quantum Exchange
   A collection of information and resources for teachers of quantum physics.
   http://www.thequantumexchange.org/

» The Science of the Bicycle
   Divided in two parts. The first is a theory study and the second is a report of the experiment. This study was done as a part of The Bicycle Project from September till December 1999. The research was done at the Kansas State University's department of ph
   http://www.science.uva.nl/research/amstel/bicycle/

» The Sound of Solitary Waves
   Physicists have demonstrated the first acoustic solitary waves in air--waves that can travel long distances without changing shape.
   http://focus.aps.org/story/v4/st24

» The World of Beams (Both Energy and Particle)
   Explores the nature of particle beams, laser beams, and related physics topics.
   http://bc1.lbl.gov/CBP_pages/educational/WoB/home.htm

» Thermal and Statistical Physics Curriculum Development Project
   Includes an introduction to the project and its conferences, related papers and links, and some Java applets.
   http://stp.clarku.edu/

» Todd's Quantum Intro
   A brief overview of quantum mechanics.
   http://www.hi.is/~hj/QuantumMechanics/quantum.html

» UMPERG: Minds-On Physics (MOP)
   A one-year curriculum for high-school physics. It is the result of a materials-development project supported by the National Science Foundation, and its design was guided by educational research findings.
   http://srri.umass.edu/mop

» Web Physics Project
   A flexible low budget outlet for small volume, high quality, HTML-based curricular material. It provides a forum for physics educators to exchange curriculum ideas and resources that make use of web technology (primarily public domain material), and provi
   http://webphysics.davidson.edu/

» West Point Bridge Design Contest
   Bridge design contest (using specialized software). U.S. students age 13 through grade 12 are eligible for prizes. Anyone else may enter the Open Competition. Overview, rules, resources, software download and FAQ.
   http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/

» World Year of Physics 2005
   Plans to bring the excitement of physics to the public and inspire a new generation of scientists. Includes information about projects, events and Einstein, sources for teachers, downloads, international links and press room.
   http://www.physics2005.org/

» ie-Physics
   Free experiment-based, web lessons in physics designed to provide a systematic introduction to physics. Emphasis is on the historical development of modern physics concepts, with understanding assisted by relevant activities and experiments.
   http://web.me.com/dtrapp/ePhysics.f/ePhysicsMenu.html