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Physics Resource Guide

Internet Resources

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Contents

Univeristy Physics Departments

Physics Departments - Australia

Physics Departments - Worldwide

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Professional Organisations

American Institute of Physics
Includes publications, online and electronic services, employment, education, science policy and history sites

American Physical Society (APS)
Includes research journals, careers, internet
resources

American Vacuum Society
Includes courses, technical resources and meeting and journal information

American Astronomical Society (AAS)
Abstracts of on-line journals, careers,
teaching resources, and electronic publishing projects

Institute of Nanotechnology (UK)
The Institute of Nanotechnology was one of the world's first nanotechnology information providers. It works closely with governments, universities, researchers, and companies worldwide on developing and promoting all aspects of nanotechnology

Institute of Photonics (UK)
"Our objective is to bridge the gap between university research and industry in the area of photonics research and development"

International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Promotes worldwide co-operation in
astronomy

The Planetary Society
Exploration of the solar system and the search for life in the universe

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General Physics Links

About.com's Sport Physics
Read about the physics of baseball, cricket, basketball, soccer, hockey, football, cycling, skateboarding, skydiving, tennis, golf and amusement parks

BUBL Physics education
Subject Menus, Countries, Types, Index or searching options

CFHT's Astronomy Picture of the Week 1999- 2001,  Images 2002 +
Discover a new spectacular image obtained at the Canada France Hawaii Telescope

Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
Created by the UCLA Department of Physics. An archive of more than 80 citations of women who contributed to physics in the 20th century

Division of Surface Science
Canadian site of a joint division for chemists and physicists

E-print Network
A large integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers

Galaxy Physics
An extensive list of physics sites including academic organisations, directories, discussion groups and organisations

Google Web Directory Quantum Mechanics
Many links to sites on specific aspects of quantum mechanics

History of Physics
From the American Institute of Physics, that has a mission to preserve and make known the history of modern physics and allied fields, including astronomy, geophysics, optics and more

Martindale's Calculators Online Center
To navigate, you will need to scroll down the page; e.g.:scroll down to Sports Physics (about 1/2-way down the page) for calculators, applets, animations and simulations on the physics of sports

Martindale's Virtual Physics Center
Links to a variety of sources and a variety of levels, including labs, lectures, applets, fundamentals and more

NET Advance of Physics - from MIT. Review articles and tutorials in Physics in an encyclopaedic format

NIST Physics Laboratory
The Laboratory is one of the major operating units of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA

PACS
Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme

Particle-Solid Interactions
Sites useful for researchers of interactions of ions, electrons, and energetic photons with solids

People in Physics
Institute of Physics site, look for physicists or other scientists

Physics 2000
An interactive introduction to modern physics developed by Professor Martin V. Goldman at the University of Colorado, Boulder. This site requires JAVA to run; download JAVA here

Physics Applets
A collection of interactive JAVA applets for use in physics, plus some JAVA-based tools to use for graph making, spreadsheets, and figures

PhysicsWeb
IOP Publishing - global news and information service for physicists, including access to the online journal PhysicsWorld

PSIgate
PSIgate (Physical Sciences Information Gateway) is the physical sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network

PSIgate - Physics in Sport
Type 'sport' into the Find box

Science.gov - Physics
The US government's science and technology site. links to technical reports, journal citations, databases, US govt web sites and fact sheets

SunWeather
Science news and information about the Sun-Earth environment

Uniserve Physics
Physics teaching resources

WWW Virtual Library: Physics
Web sites for specialised fields of physics, university physics department links and physics e-print archives

Yahoo Physics
A directory of physics web sites      

Preprints & Web Journals 

ArXive.org Eprint Server
Started in 1991, arXiv.org is an automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers. Cover includes physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience

Physics e-Print archives
Electronic archive and distribution server for research papers 

Web Journals

Astrophysics Data System (ADS) abstract service
Free online articles from over 20 astronomy journals - many dating back many years

IOP Physics Reviews
Not full-text but a useful index of review articles published in IOP's journals

New Journal of Physics
Online journal from IOP

Physics Preprints, Abstracts, Reports
Index site maintained by the Center for Scientific Computing in Finland. This site has links to preprint sites for various physics disciplines

Scitation
It is 'the online home of more than 100 journals from AIP, APS, ASCE, ASME, SPIE, and a host of other prestigious science and engineering societies'.

The SPIN database provides the most current indexing and abstracting of more than 100 major physics, astronomy, and engineering journals and conference proceedings. It provides access to over 1 million abstracts and is updated daily. It also provides access to

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Ready Reference

Martindale's Virtual Physics Center
Many useful physics web sites

Maths & Physics Home Help Page
Explains various concepts in Maths and Physics

NIST Physical Reference Data  
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) site; searchable resource containing physical constants, spectroscopy data, and other data

Online books - Physics
Reference and more

Online Physics Tutorial - Learn Physics Today
Basic fundamentals of physics

Photonics Dictionary
Contains more than 5800 industry-related terms, along with acronyms, abbreviations and illustrations

Physics Ready Reference
The Internet Public Library lists many Physics web sites

Physics Virtual Bookshelf
From the University of Toronto

Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations
You can access the resource by clicking on the link words Acronym Finder

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Science News and Search Engine Services

Physics News
A commercial internet site that offers information on news in Physics. The general home page for this site is Freescience.info and has links of general science interest with a strong emphasis on IT

SciCentral
Gateway to scientific research news

SCIRUS
"Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 300 million science-specific Web pages"

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