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Links and Resources

The following resources should be useful to Physics students. They are not linked to any particular course.

NIST Fundamental Physical Constants
NIST Physical Reference Data
TimeandDate: View of the night sky, sun/moon rise/set times, etc., from anywhere in the world.
The Particle Adventure: A tour of particle physics from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
A Walk Through Time - The Evolution of Time Measurement through the Ages
HyperPhysics: Extensive database of concepts in physics.
PhysLink: Reference and Q&A on Physics topics.
Physics Questions/Problems: Old page containing lots of interesting problems in physics.
Molecular Expressions: Optical Microscopy Primer
Molecular Expressions: Electricity & Magnetism Introduction
The Science of Boiling an Egg
PhET Interactive Simulations: Large number of interactive simulations in Physics and other topics.
Entropy on the World Wide Web: Articles about entropy in different contexts.
Superconductor Information for the Beginner
The Basics of MRI: Book by Joseph P. Hornak
Superstrings! Introduction to superstring theory.

Core Mathematics for Physics: Physics students should be proficient in all these concepts.
Calculus on the Web: A series of interactive modules for learning and practicing calculus.
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
PrimePages: Research on prime numbers.
Chaos at Maryland: A good site to start from if you have an interest in chaos.
Sprott's Fractal Gallery: Images of fractals, chaos, strange attractors, Julia sets and more.
EULER Project: Search engine for mathematical publications.
Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics: Online statistical calculators and simulators, from Rice University.
StatPages.net: Index of webpages for doing statistical calculations.
A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis

Atomic Line List: Over 900,000 spectroscopic lines, from the University of Kentucky.
NIST Elemental Data List: Physical properties of the elements.
Periodic Table: Interactive tool from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

arXiv: Pre-print server for journal articles.
Selected Classic papers from the History of Chemistry: Much of relevance to Physics too.