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A Dictionary of Physics

Web Links

Here is a list of recommended web links, arranged alphabetically by the relevant dictionary entries.

 A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Z

A  Top

accelerator
http://www-elsa.physik.uni-bonn.de/accelerator_list.html
A list of world particle accelerators and accelerator laboratories, with links, from the ELSA website at the University of Bonn

acoustics
http://www.acoustics.org/index.html
The website of the Acoustical Society of America
http://www.ioa.org.uk/
The website of the UK Institute of Acoustics

activation analysis
http://archaeometry.missouri.edu/naa_overview.html
An overview of neutron activation analysis from the Archaeometry Laboratory, Missouri Research Reactor
http://www.me.wpi.edu/Nuclear/Reactor/Labs/R-naa.html
Information about NAA from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute

ANSI
http://www.ansi.org
The ANSI home page

Aspect experiment
http://www.drchinese.com/David/Aspect.pdf
The original 1982 paper in Physical Review Letters

atomic force microscopy
http://www.nanoscience.com/education/AFM.html
An account of the technique from Nanoscience Instruments Inc.

B  Top

Bell's theorem
http://www.drchinese.com/David/Bell.pdf
The original 1964 paper in Physics

biophysics
http://www.biophysics.org/
The website of the Biophysical Society

black hole
http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/home.html
A NASA website with information about black holes

Boyle, Robert
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/
The Robert Boyle project at Birkbeck College, London

Brownian movement
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Brown-1829....
A transcript of part of Robert Brown's original 1829 paper

C  Top

CERN
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html
The CERN public website

close packing
http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/struk/fcc.html
An interactive demonstration of cubic close-packing
http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/struk/a3.html
An interactive demonstration of hexagonal close packing

COBE
http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/cobe/
The NASA website for the COBE project

Compton effect
http://www.aip.org/history/gap/Compton/01_Compton.html
Compton's original 1923 paper in The Physical Review

conductivity
http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/general_physics/2_3/2_3_7.html
Values of thermal conductivity for a range of materials at the NPL

cosmology
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~lgg/
The home page of the Caltech Observational Cosmology Group
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/cos_home.html
A cosmology website run by the University of Cambridge

crystal lattice
http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/index.html
An interactive version of the structures of a range of crystals from a US Navy website
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~tmenard/crystal/crystal.html
Crystal models from the University of Calgary

cubic crystal
http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/struk/a_h.html
An interactive version of a simple cubic crystal
http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/struk/a2.html
An interactive version of a body-centred cubic crystal
http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/struk/a1.html
An interactive version of a face-centred cubic crystal

Curie, Marie
http://www.aip.org/history/curie/contents.htm
A comprehensive website about her life and work run by The American Institute of Physics Center for History of Physics

cyclotron
http://www.youtube.com/user/nsclmedia
the US National Superconducting Cyclotron Society's You Tube channel

D  Top

dark matter
http://cdms.berkeley.edu/
The home page of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment

decay
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Halflife/halflife.html
Values of radionuclide half-lives at the NIST website

density
http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/general_physics/2_2/2_2_1.html
Values of densities of commonly used materials at the NPL website

Dulong and Petit's law
http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/petit.html
A translation of the original 1819 paper in Annals of Philosophy

E  Top

Einstein, Albert
http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/
A comprehensive website about his life and work run by The American Institute of Physics Center for History of Physics

electrolysis
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Faraday-ele...
Faraday's 1834 paper on electrical decomposition from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

electron microscope
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/electronmicroscopy/m...
A tutorial featuring virtual scanning electron microscopy, created by the Optical Microscopy Division of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

entropy
http://web.lemoyne.edu/~GIUNTA/clausius.html
Translations of papers by Clausius on entropy (1850) and the second law (1865), published in Annalen der Physik und Chemie

EPR experiment
http://www.drchinese.com/David/EPR.pdf
The original 1935 paper in Physical Review

expansivity
http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/general_physics/2_3/2_3_5.html
Values of the expansivity of selected liquids and solids at the NPL website

F  Top

fibre optics
http://www.arcelect.com/fibercable.htm
A comprehensive tutorial from Arc Electronics

fundamental constants
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/
Values of fundamental physical constants from NIST

G  Top

geodetic effect
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/gpb/index.html
The home page of NASA's Gravity Probe B experiment to investigate the geodetic effect

geomagnetism
http://geomag.usgs.gov/
The website of the USGS National Geomagnetism Program
http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/general_physics/2_7/2_7_6.html
geomagnetic data at the NPL website

Global Positioning System
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato...
FAQ covering the Global Positioning system provided by the US Federal Aviation Administration

gravitational waves
http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
The home page for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)

gravity
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/missions/grace.html
The home page of the NASA/JPL Gravity Recovery and Climate experiment to make precise measurements of the Earth's gravitational field

H  Top

Hubble Space Telescope
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html
The home page of the Hubble Space Telescope

hydrogen spectrum
http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/balmer.html
A translation of Balmer's 1885 paper on the spectral lines of hydrogen in Annalen der Physik und Chemie

I  Top

ionization energy
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/IonEnergy/tblNew.html
Values for ionization energies of neutral atoms at the NIST website

isotope
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Compositions/index.html
Isotopic compositions at the NIST website

IUPAC
http://www.iupac.org/index_to.html
The IUPAC home page

IUPAP
http://www.iupap.org/
The IUPAP home page

J  Top

JET
http://www.jet.efda.org/
The Joint European Torus website

L  Top

Lense–Thirring effect
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/gpb/index.html
The home page of NASA's Gravity Probe B experiment to investigate frame dragging

Large Hadron Collider
http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
The Large Hadron Collider home page at CERN

Lissajou's figures
http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/java/lissajous...
An interactive simulation of an oscilloscope producing Lissajou's figures from the University of Florida

M  Top

magnetism
http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/general_physics/2_6/2_6_6.html
Values for the magnetic properties of materials at the NPL website

mass spectroscopy
http://www.astbury.leeds.ac.uk/facil/MStut/mstutorial.htm
An introduction to mass spectrometry by Alison Ashcroft, University of Leeds

Michelson-Morley experiment–
http://www.aip.org/history/gap/Michelson/02_Michelson.html
The original 1987 paper in The American Journal of Science

microscope
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e03/03.htm
Web pages from the University of Hamburg, describing basic microscopical techniques

Millikan oil-drop experiment
http://www.aip.org/history/gap/Millikan/01_Millikan.html
One of Millikan's original papers (1911) in The Physical Review

N  Top

neutrino
http://neutrino.phys.washington.edu/~superk/
The US website for the super-Kamiokande netrino observatory

neutron
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Chadwick-ne...
Chadwick's 1932 letter to Nature on the discovery of the neutron
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Chadwick-19...
Chadwick's 1932 paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society

Nomarski microscope
http://www.olympusmicro.com/primer/techniques/dic/dicovervie...
Overview of Nomarski microscopy with interactive tutorials, from Olympus Microscopy Resource Center

NSOM
http://www.nanoscience.com/education/NSOM.html
an account of the technique

nuclear fission
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Meitner-Fis...
Meitner and Frish's original paper (1939) in Nature on induced fission

nuclear fusion
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Rutherford-...
Rutherford's 1934 paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society

nuclear magnetic resonance
http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/inside.htm
A comprehensive online textbook covering all aspects of magnetic resonance imaging

nuclear reactor
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf32.html
The website of the World Nuclear Association; an association of companies in the nuclear industry

nuclide
http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/index.jsp
An interactive chart giving detailed information on all nuclides, fronm the National NuclearData Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory

O  Top

omega-minus particle
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/Omega-minus.asp
A bubble-chamber photograph of the discovery of the omega-minus particle

ozone layer
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/sc_fact.html
Description of the ozone layer, its depletion, and steps to protect it, produced by the US Environmental Protection Agency

P  Top

periodic table
http://www.webelements.com/
The WebElements table produced by Mark Winter at the University of Sheffield
http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt.html
Over 50 different forms of the periodic table in the Chemogenesis web book by Mark R. Leach

photometry
http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/general_physics/2_5/2_5_3.html
Photometric data available at the NPL website

Q  Top

quantum computing
http://www.qubit.org/
A website dealing with quantum computing and other aspects of quantum information

R  Top

Raman effect
http://www.uky.edu/~holler/raman.html
The original paper in Nature (1928) by Raman and Krishnan

Raoult's law
http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/raoult2.html
Raoult's original paper in Comptes Rendus (1887)

relative atomic mass
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Compositions/index.html
Values of r.a.m. at the NIST website

resistivity
http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/general_physics/2_6/2_6_1.html
Values of resistivity for a range of materials at the NPL website

S  Top

scanning probe microscopy
http://www.nanoscience.com/education/tech-overview.html
Overview of scanning probe microscopy techniques produced by Nanoscience Instruments Inc

scanning tunnel microscope
http://www.nanoscience.com/education/STM.html
An account of the technique produced by Nanoscience Instruments Inc

seismology
http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/
The British Geological Survey seismology home page

Solar System
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?bodies
Data for the solar system from NASA/JPL

specific heat capacity
http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/general_physics/2_3/2_3_6.html
Values of specific heat capacity for a range of gases, liquids, and solids

spectroscopy
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/ASD/index.html
the NIST atomic spectra database
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Handbook/index.html
NIST Handbook of Basic Atomic Spectroscopic Data
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Kirchhoff-B...
Original paper on spectroscopy by Kirchoff and Bunsen in Annalen der Physik und der Chemie (1860)

superconductivity
http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/general_physics/2_6/2_6_4.html
Properties of superconducting elements at the NPL website

surface tension
http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/general_physics/2_2/2_2_5.html
Values of surface tension at the NPL website

synchrotron radiation
http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/
Website of the Advanced Light Source facility at Berkeley
http://www.diamond.ac.uk/default.htm
Website for the Diamond Light Source at Harwell

T  Top

thermodynamics
http://www.codata.org/resources/databases/key1.html
Thermodynamic properties from the Committee on Data for Science and Technology

U  Top

Unicode
http://www.unicode.org
The Unicode Consortium home page

V  Top

viscosity
http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/general_physics/2_2/2_2_3.html
Values of viscosities of liquids at the NPL website

W  Top

WMAP
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/
The NASA site for WMAP

work function
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/tables/photoelec....
Values given on Carl Nave's HyperPhysics site at Georgia State University

X  Top

X-ray crystallography
http://www-structmed.cimr.cam.ac.uk/Course/Overview/Overview...
An illustrated introduction to the principles of X-ray crystallography, compiled by Randy Read, University of Cambridge

Z  Top

Zeeman effect
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Zeeman-effe...
Pieter Zeeman's paper in Nature (1897)