- Amusement Park Physics
- Shows how the laws of physics affect amusement park ride design.
- Atmospheric Optics
Light playing on water drops, dust or ice crystals in the atmosphere produces a host of visual spectacles…Find out where to see them and how they form.
- The Big Misconception About Electricity
The misconception is that electrons carry potential energy around a complete conducting loop, transferring their energy to the load.
Veritarium explains what’s really going on.- Build an Atom
- Simple graphical tool showing the increasing complexity of atoms as one moves through the periodic table.
- CK-12 Flexbooks: Physics
- Free online supplemental physics textbooks funded by the state of Virginia for its schools.
- Contemporary Physics Education Project
- Information about particle physics, plasma physics, and nuclear science.
- Derrick mcneill: Physics on YouTube
- Equations, examples, and explanations of various physics concepts; the associated YouTube channel has hundreds of videos.
- Einstein’s Relativity Explained in 4 Simple Steps
The revolutionary physicist used his imagination rather than fancy math to come up with his most famous and elegant equation.
- Introduction to Basic Electronics
In this tutorial, we’re going to give you a brief overview of common electronic components and explain what their functions are. You will then learn about schematic diagrams and how they are used to design and build circuits.
- The Large Hadron Collider
- CERN explains what its LHC is all about, the experiments that are done there, and other facts and figures.
- Learn AP Physics
Whether you’re a homeschool student in need of online resources, in need of a little tutoring to help you review material covered in your class, or just enjoy solving physics problems for fun, you’ll find lots of resources here…
- Light and Matter.com
- Free online introductory textbooks.
- MagLab – Education
This is one-stop shopping for nearly anything you might want to know about electricity and magnetism.
Their associated YouTube channel includes stories, lectures, and demonstrations, ranging from under a minute to over an hour long.- MinutePhysics (video)
- Short videos about various aspects of general physics, astrophysics, relativity, and related subjects.
- MIT OpenCourseware: Physics
- Online material for introductory college-level physics classes. Check out the video lectures for some dymanic demonstrations!
- Motion Mountain: The Physics Textbook
- Free online physics textbook.
With little mathematics, starting from observations of everyday life, the text explores the most fascinating parts of mechanics, thermodynamics, special and general relativity, electrodynamics, quantum theory and modern attempts at unification.
- Nanowerk
- Information and links about nanotechnology.
- NOVA: Einstein’s Big Idea: E=mc2 Explained
How would 10 top physicists – two Nobel Prize winners among them – describe Einstein’s equation to curious non-physicists?
- NOVA: The Elegant Universe
- Companion to the PBS NOVA special about string theory.
- NOVA: The Fabric of the Cosmos (video)
A four-hour series based on the book by renowned physicist and author Brian Greene, takes us to the frontiers of physics to see how scientists are piecing together the most complete picture yet of space, time, and the universe.
- Periodic Tables of the Elements
- Chemicool — Elements.Wlonk.com — Los Alamos — PTable — RSC Periodic Table — TED-Ed Periodic Videos — WebElements
- Personal and Historical Perspectives by Hans Bethe
The presentation makes use of limited mathematics while focusing on the personal and historical perspectives of one of the principal architects of quantum theory whose career in physics spans 75 years.
- The Physics Aviary
- The Physics Aviary offers free online interactive animations relating to concepts in AP1, AP2, and Honors Physics, plus online games using some of those concepts.
- Physics Central
- News, articles, experiments, and more from the American Physical Society.
- The Physics Classroom
An online physics tutorial written for high school physics students…. The Tutorial covers basic physics topics using informative graphics and an easy-to-understand language.
Well-organized and thorough.- Physics for the 21st Century (video)
Explore the frontiers of physics research with the scientists on the front lines in this 11-unit course in modern physics for high school physics teachers, undergraduate students, and science enthusiasts.
- Physics Girl
Physics Girl is a YouTube channel created by Dianna Cowern that adventures into the physical sciences with experiments, demonstrations, and cool new discoveries.
- The Physics of Baseball
- Radiation Dose Chart
This is a chart of the ionizing radiation dose a person can absorb from various sources.
- Real World Physics Problems
This website contains a variety of physics problems, complete with solutions, taken from real world applications. The intent is to stimulate awareness and understanding of the physical world for people who are interested in physics.
- Relativity: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in Animations and Film Clips
- Online learning modules give a short introduction to the theory of relativity. Includes links to further information.
- Science Video Lectures (video)
Vega is building a collection of classic science video lectures given by eminent scientists, both from its own source material, licensing agreements on science videos from universities and other independent groups such as the Feynman family and through links to other high quality video resources.
- Simple and Compound Machines
- Why The Speed Of Light Can’t Be Measured
Physics students learn the speed of light, c, is the same for all inertial observers but no one has ever actually measured it in one direction.
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