8/23/00
Compiled
by Rick Dower
(NOTE:
Thus list does not contain the list that Tom and Norm assembled on the disk for
their Workshop project, although there may be some overlap.)
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/software/mica/micainfo.html
Multiyear Interactive Computer
Almanac from the US Naval Observatory
JPL’s Solar System Dynamics Group
for locations of solar system objects
Marshall SFC’s site to locate Earth
satellites
www.nationalgeographic.com/solarsystem
3D virtual orrery
www.willbell.com/math/mc11.htm
Publisher for tables of planetary
positions, etc.
www.lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/stars/welcome.htm
celestial atlases (1482-1851)
amateur astronomy radial velocity
measurements with CCD cameras
to request images to be obtained by
Case Western Reserve’s automated telescope
www.bigscience.com/setiathome.html
to become part of project to use PCs
to analyze SERENDIP data from Arecibo
tutorial on analemma
facts and figures about NASA programs
intended for teachers
www.aas.org/~education/index1.html
Amer. Astronomical Soc. Database of
educational resources
Astronomy info. from Students for
the Exploration and Development of Space – lots of stuff on astronomy topics
http://ispec.ucsd.edu/intro.html
International Space Physics
Educational Consortium site
NASA Education Home Page
www.aspsky.org/subpages/education.html
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
site
www.aspsky.org/education/astroacts.html
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
list of astronomy activities for K-12 students
Astronomy Workshop site
Various goofs and the real deal
European stone monuments, e.g.
Stonehenge,etc.
more information about NASA
programs, e.g.hubbleconstant.com
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Imgcat/
National Space Science Data Center –
popular NASA images
Space Telescope Science Institute
images from Hubble Space Telescope
www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/introduction.htm
Apollo 11 information
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/bestofsoho
Pictures from Solar and Helioshperic
Observatory satellite
www.sec.noaa.gov/sec_home.html
NOAA and NASA sites on space weather
in region between Sun and Earth
www.pfrr.alaska.edu/~pfrr/aurora
U. of Alaska Aurora site
Paleomap Project animation of
drifting continents
Geoscience Information System
Interactive Map Server allows construction and downloading of customized maps
of Earth features
Landsat images of Earth
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/avhrr/gallery
images from Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory Ocean Remote Sensing Group
National Center for Atmospheric
Research visualization gallery
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml
Weather World 2010 Project –
explanations and case studies
NOAA image archive (from Ben
Franklin’s drawing of Gulf Stream to present)
National Geophysical Data Center
site
Topographical features visible on a
given night, links to other lunar sites
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/
Mars Global Surveyor images, e.g.
shadow of Phobos on Mars’ surface
www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo/fulldata.html
compendium of Galileo’s first nine
orbits of Jupiter
multimedia tour of the nine planets
views and movies of planets
constructed from satellite images
http://etacha.as.arizona.edu/~eem/exo.html
extrasolar planets and links to
other sites
photos of asteroid Eros from NEAR
satellite in orbit around it
www.meteorlab.com/homepage.htm
fundamentals of meteorites
large gallery of annotated meteorite
images
information on the 14 known Martian
meteorites
JPL’s Near Earth Object Program site
http://gdcinfo.agg.nrcan.gc.ca/toc.html?/crater/world_craters.html
Natural Resources Canada database on
160 impact craters on Earth
High Energy Astrophysics Science
Archive Resource Center, access to raw data and much more
www.astro.uva.nl/~ecford/qpos.html
Quasi-periodic Oscillations Site –
recent papers and obs. on x-ray binaries
collapsar model for gamma ray bursts
http://aries.usno.navy.mil:80/ad_home/pne
images of galactic planetary nebulae
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu
Space Telescope Science Institute’s
page on black holes
Chandra Observatory site
history and news on age and size of
the universe
www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
Cosmology Tutorial
www.sns.ias.edu/~whu/physics/physics.html
tutorials on cosmic microwave background
supercomputer simulations of galaxy
cluster evolution
Astrophysics Data System data base
SkyView virtual telescope creates
all-sky images at various wavelengths from data bases
www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_survey.html
all-sky maps in various wavelengths
www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/releases/spr99/index.html
images form 2MASS all-sky infrared survey
astronomy images and more
www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/kaspar/obs_mishaps/mishaps.html
examples of faulty astronomical
images and fixes
http://graffiti.u-bordeaux.fr/MAPBX/roussel/anim-e.html
Space Movie Archive – movies and
animations
www.astro.uva.nl/~michielb/sun/kaft.htm
movies of eclipses, solar flares,
etc.
http://isi.ssl.berkeley.edu/wr104.html
movie of Wolf-Rayet 104 spinning
from Keck I images
www.pagecreations.com/astrocappella
songs about astronomy
Education
Energy
Solids
and Liquids
Aeronautics
Sound
Light
& Optics
Electricity
& Magnetism
Particles
Nuclear
Misc.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html
Most recent release of values of
physical constants from NIST
Coordinated Universal Time
www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/faq/faq.htm
information on time signals
www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html
Archimedes – texts and inventions
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/geometry/content.htm
Geometry of War, 1000-1750 at
Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science
www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Galileo_Prototype/
manuscript of Galileo’s “Notes on
Motion”
Institute and Museum of the History
of Science in Florence site – Leonardo, Galileo, Lavoisier, etc.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellhome.html
Library of Congress archive of
Alexander Graham Bell’s papers
Emilio Segre Visual Archives at AIP
Center for History of Physics – photos of physicists and astronomers
www.aip.org/history/heisenberg
Amer. Inst. of Physics exhibit on
Heisenberg
Amer. Physical Soc. Timeline for
physics from 1896
www.pbs.org/transistor/index.html
history of transistor discovery –
accompanies PBS show
PHYSICS - Education
American Physical Society and many
links to other sites
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab
variety of physics experiment
applets
PHYSICS - Energy
http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~khirata/indexe.htm
Stirling engine – tutorial,
pictures, instructions for building
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
site
www.energy.ca.gov/education/index.html
California Energy Commission site
PHYSICS - Solids and Liquids
www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals
snow crystals and research on them
http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice
Crystal Lattice Structures site
maintained by Naval Research Lab
http://web.physics.twsu.edu/facsme/nitro.htm
demos with liquid nitrogen
http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/~ubws/nitrogen.html
fun with liquid nitrogen
PHYSICS - Aeronautics
www.usafa.af.mil/dfp/cockpit-phys/cp_home.htm
tutorials on jet flight topics
computational fluid dynamics movies
www.gfdl.gov/~jps/GFDL_VG_Gallery.html#Hurricane
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Laboratory simulations of hurricanes
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/flute
musical acoustics, physics of the
flute
http://hyperion.advanced.org/19537
aspects of sound physics and
perception
www.provide.net/~bfield/abs_pitch.html
information on perfect pitch and
those who have it
http://www.imedea.uib.es/~piro/PitchPage
perceived pitch of complex sounds
PHYSICS - Light & Optics
links to various areas of vision
science
www.bell-labs.com/history/laser
laser history and operating
principles
PHYSICS - Electricity &
Magnetism
links to information on
superconductors
http://www.mrsec.wisc.edu/edetc/MFM.html
refrigerator magnets – structure and
uses
http://web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www/anim.html
electromagnetic field movie images
http://americanhistory.si.edu/scienceservice
historical photos of electrical
devices
Internet Plasma Physics Education
Experience site
PHYSICS –Relativity and
Einstein
www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~weiskopf/gallery
Animated cartoons give relativistic
views
www.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/arcquery
Cal Tech photo archive with Einstein
photos
www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/physpiceinstein.html
Einstein family photos, etc.
Amer. Inst. of Physics site on
Einstein
PHYSICS - Particles
www.aps.org/resources/particle.shtml
Particle physics links maintained by APS (American
Physical Society)
www.slac.stanford.edu/library/pdg
Particle physics Web directory
lbnl particle data group site on
particles and interactions
includes The Particle Adventure and
Fusion activities
The Particle Adventure site on the
Standard Model
http://hepweb.rl.ac.uk/ppukpics/pr_pow.html
Particle Physics in the UK Picture
of the Week
www.physics.helsinki.fi/neutrino
U. of Helsinki Ultimate Neutrino
Page – educational applets, etc.
www.hep.anl.gov/ndk/hypertext/nu_industry.html
links to neutrino experiments
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider site
www.ccd.bnl.gov/visualization/gallery/au_on_au
animation of gold-gold nucleus
collisions in RHIC at Brookhaven
The Official String Theory Web Site
– information, interviews
http://quark.caltech.edu/stringtheory
humorous tutorial on string theory
http://ParticleAdventure.org/other/othersites.html.
http://quarknet.fnal.gov/projects/summer00/index.shtml
http://quarknet.fnal.gov/projects/summer00/detectors/detchallenges.shtml
For event (and bubble) pictures, go to resources for detectors, then Events and Challenges:
PHYSICS – Nuclear
Table of Isotopes information and
links
http://c14.sci.waikato.ac.nz/webinfo/index.html
carbon-14 dating history and
applications
International Atomic Energy Agency
site
www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/inside.htm
tutorial on MRI and related topics
PHYSICS - Misc.
www.ala.org/acrl/resmar00.html
annotated list of physics Web sites
Amer. Inst. of Physics photo archive
http://www-perg.phast.umass.edu/UMPERG
U. Mass Physics Education Research
Group site
www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~jossem/ICPE/BOOKS.html
results of research on physics
education
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/faq.html
answers to physics and relativity
FAQs
http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money
Physicists on banknotes, link to
physicists on stamps
images, history, cartoons, essays,
etc.
http://anchor.as.utexas.edu/~pamela/pa_humor.html
Physics and Astronomy humor page
www.cyberspc.mb.ca/~dcc/phys/humor.html
Physics Humor Links
Russian animations of waves, optics,
mechanics, thermodynamics
www.towson.edu/~sweeting/wg/candywww.htm
triboluminescence from WintOGreen
Life Saver candy
Digital Instruments NanoTheater
images
SCIENCE ETC.
Categories: Nobel
Prize
Humor
Misc.
Nobel Prize site
video discussions, animations, etc.
related to Nobel Prize winners and work
info, gossip, links
SCIENCE ETC. – Humor
www.pagecreations.com/astrocappella
songs about astronomy
http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/science
science jokes
http://anchor.as.utexas.edu/~pamela/pa_humor.html
Physics and Astronomy humor page
www.cyberspc.mb.ca/~dcc/phys/humor.html
Physics Humor Links
SCIENCE ETC. – Misc.
lab safety course from Howard Hughes
Medical Institute
National Science Teachers
Association
http://www-perg.phast.umass.edu/UMPERG
U. Mass Physics Education Research
Group site
www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~jossem/ICPE/BOOKS.html
results of research on physics
education
www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html
4000 Years of Women in Science and
links to other resources
links to online course material
posted by professors
http://kahuna.psych.uiuc.edu/ipl
Internet Psychology Lab
www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits
perceptual illusions, etc.
winning web sites designed by high
school students electricity, cosmology, etc.
Archives of Sounds Like Science
http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money
Physicists on banknotes, link to
physicists on stamps
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/faq.html
answers to physics and relativity
FAQs
answers to chemistry FAQs
www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/sci
answers to science FAQs
fact and fiction in popular
understanding of science
www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html
Truth about science misconceptions
http://Landau1.phys.Virginia.EDU/Education/Teaching/HowThingsWork
explanations of everyday objects and
mechanisms