New Riders' Official World Wide Web & Internet Dir

Physics

Accelerator Physics at SLAC

http://beam.slac.stanford.edu/

Describes accelerator physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Includes links to most accelerator physics and resources on the Web, including almost all accelerator labs in the world, lab-specific and general news and job-listing sites, physics societies and organizations, texts, and more.

American Institute of Physics

http://aip.org/

Provides general information on physics. Contains lists of other Web sites, as well as services such as online journals and software archives. Offers information varying from news about what is happening in the field of physics, presented at a newspaper reading level, to listings of job openings in the field of physics.

American Physical Society

http://aps.org/

American Physical Society is an organization of more than 41,000 physicists. The group publishes research journals, including the Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, and Review of Modern Physics. Their site contains links to information on the organization's meetings, membership information, and career/employment opportunities, as well as links to their numerous publications.

ASM International Home Page

http://www.asm-intl.org/

Provides information about ASM, the Materials Information Society. Provides a searchable collection of Web sites, a calendar of events, and a collection of materials producers of interest to materials engineers.

CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics

http://www.cern.ch/

Birthplace of the World Wide Web. Provides general information on the Web and maintains archives of information on particle physics and listings of links to other sites pertaining to the field of physics.

CMB Astrophysics Research Program

http://spectrum.lbl.gov

Surveys ongoing research and lists current personnel in the George Smoot Astrophysics Research Group.

Fermilab: Discovering the Nature of Nature

http://www.fnal.gov/

Site describes the activities of the Department of Energy National Accelerator Laboratory. Features information about the Top Quark discovery, high energy physics, and Fermilab activities.

HyperSpace at UBC

http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/hyperspace/

Contains articles related to gravity and relativity, current news on relativity, job listings, and conference information, among other information.

Interactive Physics Problem Set

http://info.itp.berkeley.edu/Vol1/Contents.html

Contains almost 100 practice problems accompanied by detailed solutions and interactive computer experiments.

Jean-Marie Vaneskahian's Physics Home Page

http://www.gate.net/~jean/

Offers physics-related links and software, including Net software.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

http://www.llnl.gov/

Provides information about the laboratory and its research projects, as well as links to other sites of general interest. Specializes in the study of nuclear, ecological, and bioscience topics.

Laws List

http://www.alcyone.com/max/

Online dictionary of physics terms and ideas. Covers laws, rules, principles, effects, paradoxes, limits, constants, experiments, and thought experiments in physics.

Listing of Physics Resources on the World Wide Web

http://aip.org/aip/physres.html

Lists various types of physics resources currently available on the Web.

Livermore Labs Atmospheric Research

http://www-ep.es.llnl.gov/www-ep/atm.html

Provides technical information with research on global and regional climate change, atmospheric physics and chemistry, biogeochemical cycles of anthropogenic gases and aerosols, cloud physics, and real-time modeling of the transport of contaminants in the atmosphere.

Nanotechnology

http://nano.xerox.com/nano

Nanotechnology is an expected future manufacturing technology that should enable us to inexpensively build almost any structure consistent with the laws of chemistry and physics with molecular precision.

Nanoworld Home Page

http://www.uq.oz.au/nanoworld/nanohome.html

Research and service facility dedicated to understanding the structure and composition of all materials. Provides links to several resources. Offers database of microscopic images.

Nuclear Physics

http://www.rarf.riken.go.jp/rarf/np/nplab.html

Contains a catalog of sites pertaining to the field of physics. Contains a variety of links to sites, and an alphabetical listing that consists predominately of links to research centers around the world but that also includes links to a variety of associations.

Physics and Space Technology Directorate

http://www-phys.llnl.gov/

Provides information on physics—particularly physics pertaining to space technology.

Physics around the World

http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/physics-services/

Provides a catalog of physics and related resources on the Web. Includes all major fields in physics, science education, history of science, physical constants, laws, data and tables, journals, software, and more. Also includes bulletin boards for summer schools and workshops and for buying and selling used instruments and equipment.

Physics Demonstrations at UC Berkeley

http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/physics/physics.html

Demonstrations for the subjects of mechanics, waves, heat and matter, electricity, magnetism, and optics.

Physics News

http://www.het.brown.edu/news/index.html

Contains up-to-date information on current events in the world of physics. Offers a listing of various online publications and resource sites.

Physics Problems

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~probs/probm.html

Contains more than 30 problems in basic concepts, mechanics, and thermal physics.

Physics World Electronic News

http://www.ioppublishing.com/

An online newsletter. Allows subscribers to receive e-mail that provides up-to-date accounts of news in the field of physics.

Quantum Magazine Home Page

http://www.nsta.org:80/quantum/

Provides information about Quantum magazine. Contains primarily physics-related contents, but does include a "toy store" of "mathematical amusements." Includes back issues and a sample.

Virtual Science Class

http://visualsystems.com/main.html

Site featuring educational software for science related topics. Includes energy flow, physics lab simulator, and producing energy. Also gives highlights on new or future products.

WARP Home

http://www.hia.com/hia/pcr/home.html

Offers a collection of multimedia documents pertaining to various aspects of "alternative" science, including warp technology, fantasy stories of time travel, quantum mechanics, and so on.

Welcome to the Institute of Physics

http://www.ioppublishing.com/iopwelcome.html

Provides information in the field of physics. Restricts use of some items and aspects to registered members only. Users who choose to register can browse text abstracts or download full text versions of any article. To register, you must be a member of a subscribing institution.

Welcome to the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics

http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Provides information, documents and simulations related to terrestrial physics. Features links to images of various terrestrial phenomena, such as magnetic models of the crust.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Physics

http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Physics/Overview.html

Offers a general listing of physics sites. Also contains links to listings of more specific sites on geophysics, astrophysics, nuclear physics, and energy science.