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The aim of AZoM (A to Z of materials) is to promote the use of advanced materials. It contains news and feature articles searchable by keyword, application, or industry, as well as a means to specify material properties. There are also links to conferences, courses, exhibitions, and book listings.
AstroWeb contains a collection of links to Internet astronomy resources; it is both browsable and searchable.
SwRI's listing of atomic, molecular, and plasma physics resources on the Internet. It includes databases and other Web-based resources.
Comprehensive list of atomic physics resources including conferences, databases, software, who's who, & employment opportunities.
From the University of Wisconsin Chemistry Library, this is a gateway to biophysical chemistry resources including databases, organizations, educational resources, techniques, and graduate programs.
From the International Union of Crystallography, this is a collection of links leading to resources about associations, conferences, crystallographers, data, databases, education, employment, journals, news, software, and suppliers.
This site contains links to resource on electrochemical science and technology including subject collections, newsgroups, software, suppliers, consultants, graduate schools, researchers, reviews, proceedings, books, associations, journals and book series, handbooks, bibliographies, nomenclature, standards, and future meetings.
HEPIC contains links to experiments, conferences, reports, software, newsletters and periodicals, employment opportunities, & a virtual phonebook.
This guide provides an entry to the growing nanotechnology resources on the Internet. The site is arranged under the following headings: academic, industry, government laboratories, government agencies, professional societies, non-profit organizations, books, periodicals, reports, and conferences.
Describes & provides access to online catalogs, databases, directories, & other Web pages that may be of value to the particle physics community.
OpticsNotes is a gateway to resources, references, and tutorials on optics and photonics. Users can browse through information on optics fundamentals, design, components, manufacture, applications, references, and industry, or search the site.
This site is a clearinghouse for information about particle-surface physics including mailing lists, gophers, and FTP sites; Web sites; conferences; job openings; and special notices.
The UK's Institute of Physics developed Physics.org to serve as a gateway to important physics Web sites. Using EasyAsk natural language query software, Physics.org finds relavent Web sites to the question asked. There are also access to career information, links to sites containing formulas and equations, and a listing of top questions grouped by topic.
From the Perspectives on Plasmas Web site, it contains links to plasma information resources, references, societies, forums, and journals & publications.
The Physical Sciences Information Gateway is an annotated directory of Internet resources for the physical sciences, including physics and materials. It is searchable and browsable.
The SLAC Library provides this electronic guide, which organizes and annotates online databases, Web pages, catalogs, and directories that are of value to the particle physicists.
Although the main focus of this site is to introduce beginners and non-technical people to the world of superconductors, it also includes links to other superconductor sites including pictures and animations, tutorials, research groups, manufacturers, and upcoming conferences.
A listing of Internet search engines from the Internet Tutorials Web site.
GradSchool Shopper, a venture of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), is based on their annual publication Graduate Programs in Physics, Astonomy, and Related Fields, which is available in the the Science Library reference collection: Science REF QC 30 A552A. GradSchool Shopper allows prospective graduate students to search for programs by school, location, subject, and degree type. There are also supplementary resources and advice.
This site provices access to Web sites for physics departments worldwide.
Physlink.com host this site which links to over 1,600 departments around the world.
The AIP Web site provides access to announcements, services, programs, books, journals, educational resources, news, meetings and conferences, career services, and links to AIP member societies.
Access the following information from the APS: meetings, journals, career and employment, prizes, fellowships, education resources, Internet resources, and news.
The AVS Web site provides access to an events calendar, awards, membership information, educational resources, reference materials, symposia and technical meetings, journals, short courses, and a buyers guide.
The Institute of Physics (UK) Web site provides links to information about their books, journals, and magazines as well as news, education resources, career information, and industry support.
Users of this Web site will find information about the MRS, including its meeting, publications (books, conference proceedings, and journals), and news.
This is a collaboration between the Institute of Physics and the International Society for Optical Engineering. It includes the latest industry information from around the world, a buyer's guide, a searchable bibliographic database to over 1,400,000 citations and abstracts, an employment service, a guide to Internet resources, and a collection of feature articles.
Access to Web sites & gophers maintained by or for scholarly astronomy societies around the world.
Access to Web sites & gophers maintained by or for scholarly physics societies around the world.
SPIE Web furnishes access to resources for optics, photonics, and imaging. Users can access information on SPIE publications and products, conferences, discussion forums, and exhibitions as well as educational materials, career services, news and announcements, and a searchable technical library to over 2,400,000 references.
Provides searchable access to over 15,000 astronomical images on the Web.
Contains fully processed astonomical images in FITS format and VRML 3-D images.
View the earth or the moon from various perspectives.
A 46-centimeter reflecting telescope at your disposal; after registering with the site (no charge), you submit observing jobs, then if the weather is clear, the scope snaps pictures of the area of the sky you've specified, and lets you view the results online.
From the Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory; provides fundamental astronomical reference data, the position, brightness, & other observable characteristics of celestial bodies.
An electronic encylopedia of astronomy.
A multimedia tour of our solar system with text, pictures, sounds, and an occasional movie.
Paths, charts, & animations of predicted eclipses through 1999.
Provides access to data for each element in the periodic table; includes atomic spectra data, x-ray and gamma ray data, radiation dosimetry data, nuclear physics data, & condensed matter physics data.
This searching tool provides access to a wealth of atomic data information.
Includes most of the existing critically evaluated NIST data on atomic energy levels, transition probabilities, and wavelengths that are reasonably up-to-date.
Provides access to data from the Table of Isotopes handbook; data may be accessed via radiation or nuclide searches.
This Brookhaven National Laboratory resource contains 8 databases on nuclear structure, decay, and reactions. The Web site also includes nuclear structure, decay, and reaction tools.
Critically evaluated data and bibliographies on atomic spectra, energy levels, wavelengths, transition probabilities, & line shapes.
Containing data, codes, and publications, this site focuses on nuclear modeling, nuclear data, cross sections, nuclear masses, ENDF, NJOY data processing, nuclear astrophysics, radioactivity, radiation shielding, data for medical radiotherapy, data for high-energy accelerator applications, and data and codes for fission and fusion systems.
Nicholas Stone of Oxford University has compiled a revised table; Dr. Stone seeks additional items for inclusion & comments on the table.
The table furnishes information on the elements and their isotopes, including their atomic mass, excess mass, binding energy, half life, and mode of decay.
An alphabetical listing of bibliographic databases and indexes for physics.
Interactive database with references on atomic transition probabilities (oscillator strengths, line strengths, & radiative lifetimes); both theoretical and experimental papers are listed.
NSR contains references to low and intermediate energy physics research publications spanning nearly 100 years. Searchable by nuclide, target, incident particle, outgoing particle, reaction, author, keynumber list, subject, or quantity.
Archive about 20th century women who have made original & important contributions to physics.
For each Nobel Laureate listed, birthdate, research summary, places of employment, and links to addition information are provided.
All Conferences is a directory that focuses on up-coming conferences, conventions, trade shows, exhibits, workshops, events, and meetings. It may be browsed by subject field or searched.
Created by InterDok, the publisher of the Directory of Published Proceeding, MInd lists information on future conferences, congresses, meetings and symposia. It can be searched by subject keyword, sponsor, location, or year.
This PhysNet site links to sites that list past and future physics related conferences, workshops, and summer schools.
Britney's guide provides the fundamentals of several key topics in semiconductor physics including semiconductor junctions; finite barrier quantum-well; density of states; edge-emitting lasers; photonic crystals; crystal growth, fabrication, and processing; and photolithography.
Links to over 100 different college-level astronomy courses, mostly at the "beginner" level.
A complete physics text with problems covering a full year of noncalculus, undergraduate physics; it requires a working knowledge of algebra.
Cramster is a study community comprised of students and teachers helping each other to solve problems in mathematically-based subjects like chemistry, physics, and computer science; mathematics courses such as calculus and statistics are also covered. Cramster creates and provides access to study materials (textbook solutions, topic notes, sample problems, and practice tests) along with materials developed by community members. The Cramster Answer Board, which is moderated by subject experts, furnishes community members with an opportunity to ask and answer questions. Basic membership is free, but registration is required. Premium membership, with additional benefits, is available for a fee.
Part of an physics course, there are several animations, simulations, and applications to help students learn electricity and magnetism concepts.
Covering topics like energy analyses, open processes, and combustions in closed chambers, TEST provides a detailed introduction to thermodynamics. There are numerous challenging problems to help reinforce concepts. TEST is free, but registration is required.
Located near Geneva, Switzerland, CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is the world's largest particle physics laboratory. Hands-on CERN contains a collection of resources explaing the standard model, accelerators, detectors, picture analysis, and particle collisions.
IPPEX contains several interactive explorations in the area of plasma physics.
ITRS was developed through the cooperation of several semiconductor/electronics associations. Its objective is to outline the goals and future advancements for the worldwide semiconductor industry.
Hosted by Arizona State University, these are the lecture notes of John Venables that were used in the development of the graduate textbook, Introduction to Surface and Thin Film Processes, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Produced by the California Institute of Technology and Intelecom, and made available by Annenberg Media, The Mechanical Universe ... and Beyond is a collection of 52 half-hour videos covering many important topics in physics. The purpose of the this video series is to help teachers demystify physics using "field trips" and computer graphics to illustrate abstract concepts. Some of the topics covered are falling bodies, vectors, forces, the conservation of energy, resonance, angular momentum, electric circuits, magnetism, Maxwell's equations, optics, Lorentz transformation, entropy, and quantum mechanics. Although access to these videos is free, registration is required.
Provides clear explanations on string theory including the basics, experiments, cosmology, black holes, theatre (a virtual lecture hall), people, timeline, & a discussion forum.
Developed at Florida State University, this set of tutorials covers microscopy and its related principles. It starts with the basics, but covers several advanced topics.
An interactive tour of the inner workings of the atom; introduces the theory of fundamental particles & forces, explores the experimental evidence & the reasons physicists want to go beyond this theory, provides information on particle decay and a brief history section.
An educational resource containing both basic and advanced information on plasmas. It includes background information, applications, Internet resources, exhibition, and photo gallery.
Physics 24/7 contains resources to help students learn physics. It provides access to a glossary that defines and explains important terms; a tutorial that teaches physics concepts by explaining every day events or phenomena; study skill tips; and a collection of self-correcting physics quizzes. Most of the resources on this site are free, however, customized assistance from a physics tutor is fee-based.
This site contains Java-based interactive modules that demonstrate concepts of modern physics including Bose-Einstein condensations, X-rays, computerized tomography, electromagnetic waves, quantum atoms, microwave ovens, lasers, television and laptop computer screens, and interference experiments.
Alan Nathan, the author of this site, includes numerous material from his physics classes at the University of Illinois. He includes lectures, video clips, and links to articles, documents, and other sites on the subject.
From Mississippi State University (and mirrored elsewhere), this site provides access to Java and Shockwave simulations that were created in various locations around the world. The simulations are arranged into the following categories: measurements, math, mechanics, waves, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, light and optics, modern physics, and astronomy.
Using limited mathematics, this series of three lectures, given by Hans Bethe in 1999, focuses on the personal and historical perspectives of one of the principal architects of quantum theory.
Through a series of animations and simulations, this site presents an introduction to quantum physics. Topics covered are wave mechanics, quantization in one and three dimensions, quantum superposition in one and two dimensions, and spin 1/2.
This tutorial describes the history and general concepts of relativity. It includes special relativity, radar, time dilation, general relativity, the principle of equivalence, curved spacetime, and how relativity is important to cosmology.
Launching with over 1,000 entries, SciTalks is a repository of science lectures and talks from all over the world. The lectures (talks) range in length from brief to lengthy, and from basic or humorous to complex and serious. SciTalks can be browsed by scientific fields, or the entire collection can be searched.
The goal of this site is to teach quantum mechanics using interactive Shockwave programs for topics like probability, quantum tunneling, wave functions, hydrogen spectroscopy, and energy bands.
This tutorial is designed to help those with no prior knowledge of wavelet theory. It includes an overview, fundamentals, and sections on multiresolution analysis.
From the Center for X-ray Optics at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, this tutorial demonstrates the primary interactions of low-energy X-rays with matter. It includes information and data on electron level widths, electron binding energies, atomic properties, and material properties for the elements.
This "dictionary" is arranged into four sections: laboratories, accelerators, detectors and experiments, and other institutions. Each acronym is followed by a brief description and a link to the site for additional information.
Hosted by RP Photonics Consulting GmbH and compiled by Rüdiger Paschotta, this encylcopedia covers basic terminology and principles of laser physics and technology as well as topics in general optics and optoelectronics, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, fiber optics, and optical communications.
This is a free electronic encylopedia of astronomy that is searchable and browsable.
This is a free electronic encylopedia of physics that is searchable and browsable.
Eurodic Autom translates between 12 European languages: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
A dictionary of nuclear science terms & an introduction to nuclear science.
Plain language definitions of frequently used technical terms in plasma physics and fusion energy research.
Provides not only definitions but also gives a taste of the history & politics behind the units of weights & measures.
A list of various laws, rules, principles, and other related topics in physics and astronomy.
The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy contains over 250 illustrated articles, covering all topics in the field of energy. It also includes biographies.
Oxford Reference Online provides access to several physics resources. They may be searched together at the link above or separately at the links below:
From Credo Reference, this dictionary provides clear and concise definitions to nearly 4,500 terms and concepts, from every area of physics.
Compiled by Laurin Publising, the Photonics Dictionary contains definitions to more than 6,000 terms, along with acronyms and abbreviations.
ArXiv.org is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers, covering physics and the related disciplines of mathematics, nonlinear sciences, and computer science. The Net Advance of Physics provides subject access to arXiv.org's review articles and tutorials with an A-Z topical index and a hierarchical index. Based on arXiv.org, Eprintweb.org is a service from the Instiutue of Physics. It can be searched, browsed, and personalized. Althought it is free, registration is required for personalization.
This site provides access to preprint collections for institutions or preprints of individual scientists in materials science and physics.
Hosted by the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University, this preprint service contains the full text of preprint papers along with accompanying discussions. When the paper is formally published in a journal, a link is provided.
Mp_arc is an electronic archive for research papers in Mathematical Physics & related areas; users can deposit papers, retrieve papers, or receive weekly e-mail updates.
The preprints in this archive are arranged by year beginning with 1994. It is also possible to search the complete archive.
Arranged by institution, the Virtual Technical Reports Center links to full text reprints, preprints, e-prints, and technical reports as well as theses, disserations, and research reports from around the world.
Maintained by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, it is part of the wavelet.org Website. Issued regularly since 1992, The Wavelet Diget includes preprints as well as meeting announcements, calls for papers, software resources, book reviews, theses, tables of contents, and job announcements.
Hosted by SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), eConf is an archive containing the proceedings of scientific conferences in high-energy physics and related fields. eConf is fully searchable and it can be browsed.
eScholarship Editions are made available through a partnership between the UC Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program. The growing collection includes electronic editions of books across a range of topics. This page provides access to physics books. Most books are freely available.
Access a collection of freely available reports and books from the National Academy Press on physics and materials.
Access a collection of books for the subjects of physics and astronomy.
Sponsored by SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste), PoS offers conference organizers an inexpensive means to publish their proceedings online. It covers astronomy, biophysics, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, and science communication.
Access is provided to the books in STMP series beginning with volume 165 (2000) as well as some out of print volumes.
Access AIP's "Science and Engineering Jobs" database or post a resume. There's also a feature to be notified when new jobs are posted.
A Society of Physics Students site that offers experiences of working physicists. It contains profiles of professionals with bachelors, masters, and Ph.D.s in Physics, and includes what they do, frustrations of the job, and advice to those entering the field.
A listing of job ads for micro-electro-mechanical systems.
PhysicsJobs.com is a site for physics professionals to find employment as well as employers who are seeking physics professionals. It is also linked to numerous employment Web sites.
Maintained by Fermilab and SLAC libraries, this searchable and browsable database lists jobs in astrophysics, general relativity, high energy physics, nuclear physics, and accelerator physics.
This site is a gateway to Einstein overviews, quotes, pictures, writings, announcements, and other relevant information.
Visit the award winning Exhibit Hall; find photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, & other visual materials in the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives; or search the International Catalog of Sources for History of Physics & Allied Fields from the repositories of the Niels Bohr Library.
A joint project of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the California Institute of Technology, it provides access to Einstein's scientific and non-scientific writings. It includes digitized manuscripts, a finding aid, and an archival database containing approximately 43,000 records of Einstein and Einstein related documents.
A Department of Energy site containing information about Fermi, including audio and video clips, full text documents, and links to additional Web resources.
Created by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities, this online museum collects instruments related to the scientific and commercial history of radioactivity and radiation. Arranged by subject, each piece includes images of the instrument along with additional textural information.
The IEEE Virtual Museum contains exhibits that explore the history of technologies that use electricity.
An online gallery of eminent physicists.
Seven physicists are featured: Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Henry, Albert Michelson, Henry Rowland, Josiah Gibbs, Robert Millikan, and Arthur Compton. For each scientist there is a biography and one or more important papers.
A registry of Web resources that lists or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations.
A list from PhysNet of physics-related journals which are freely available on the Web.
Maintained by the American Institute of Physics (AIP), this site lists and provides links to key journals from the AIP and other publishers like the APS, AVS, the Electrochemical Society, and SPIE. Tables of contents and abstracts can be browsed, but access to full text requires a subscription. Scitation may also be searched by keyword.
Search for journal holding using the ADVANCEWeb online catalog interface. Links are provided for online journals.
As a service of the Institute of Physics, it provides access to review articles in IOP journals. Reviews may be displayed by subject, journal, or date. Although the service is free, access to the full text requires a subscription to the individual journal.
This American Institute of Physics site maintains a series of select articles featuring current cutting-edge research in physical, analytical, biophysical, materials, and surface chemistry.
AIP's Scitation is a gateway to over 100 journals from 18 publishers, including those from AIP and affiliated societies. Journals can be organized by publisher or category, and alphabetically. Scitation may be searched by keywords, or personalized.
Interactions furnishes news and information for particle physicists.
From the Materials Research Society, this Web site provides the latest news and information from the field of materials.
Developed by the Institute of Physics (IoP), MedicalPhysicsWeb.org is a portal to the latest news and innovations in medical physics. It provides access to information in the following categories: opinion, industry, research, journals, products, companies, and events. There is also a listing of important societies. Most of information is freely available, however, registration or subscription is sometimes required. Registration is freely available.
Physics News Update is a digest of news items from meetings, journals, newspapers, magazines, and other news sources. It is compiled by the AIP and updated weekly.
This American Physical Society site provides news and insight into the world of physics through articles, subject and physicist features, pictures, and answered questions.
From the Institute of Physics, physicsworld.com contains continually updated physics news and other features.
A table of internationally agreed upon values for the thermodynamic properties of key chemical substances.
This Web site lists over 600 scientific constants and 425 equations. Also included are conversion factors, SI units, symbols, and a Java program that names compounds from structures that are drawn.
From the Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory; provides fundamental astronomical reference data, the position, brightness, & other observable characteristics of celestial bodies.
From NIST, the Elemental Data Index provide data and information about each element including atomic weight, ground state configuration, atomic spectra, ionization energy, X-ray and gamma-ray data, radiation dosimetry data, nuclear physics data, and condensed matter physics data.
Contains the latest data on about 3,600 isotopes including half-life, spin, decay modes, & abundance.
This NIST Web site provides the values of the basic constants and conversion factors of physics and chemistry.
Provides assistance in the use of the SI (the modern metric system).
This site is an index to resources that contain chemical, physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, toxicological, and safety data. Its heart is an alphabetical listing of properties linked to resources that contain data on that property. Although this site is based on resources in the Arizona State University Libraries, many of the same resources are available to UAlbany users.
ICT contains the best (critical) data derived from the literature up to 1924. It includes data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other important properties for chemistry, physics, and engineering. The data is presented as text, equations, tables, graphs, and charts. ICT is fully searchable and the index is hyperlinked to the data.
Search for data and properties in the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data.
Knovel Critical Tables (kCT) are based on the International Critical Tables of Numeric Data, Physics, Chemistry, and Technology, and include up-to-date, evaluated data on over 13,000 compounds. The tables contain data on organic and inorganic compounds, and pure substances. New tables will be added to kCT on a regular basis. kCT is fully searchable.
Find links to physics and astrophysics calculators from the basic to the complex.
The NIST Data Gateway provides access to broad range of property and substance data as well as to databases producted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
NIST Physical Reference Data provides access to critically evaluated physical constants, atomic spectroscopic data, molecular spectroscopic data, ionization data, X-ray and gamma-ray data, radiation dosimetry data, nuclear physics data, condensed matter physics data, and other NIST data.
For each element in the periodic table, x-ray properties like edge energies, edge jumps, and fluorescence yield are provided. If the energy value is added, x-ray cross-sections at that energy that include photoelectric, coherent, and incoherent data, are also provided.
The PGM Database (Platinum Group Metals) contains published data on the physical properties and characteristics of platinum group metals and their alloys. There is information on over 400 alloys. It is fully searchable and browsable.
This Web site, developed at the University of Wisconsin Chemistry Library, is a subject index to numerous physical and chemical property resources, both in print and online. Although it is an index to resources at the University of Wisconsin, the University at Albany has many of the books and online resources that are cited. You will need to check the UAlbany's Minerva catalog to see if is available.
This page contains a set of links to collections of physical and chemical properties data.
Includes a JavaScript-enhanced calculator with all of the constants programmed into it.
This is an index to selected print and Internet resources that contain chemical, physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, toxicological, and safety data.
The Smithsonian Physical Tables cover a wide range of common physical and chemical data. It includes general physical constants and units of measurement as well as tables on photometry, mechanical properties, building materials, density, acoustics, diffusion, geomagnetism, radiation, abundance of substances, colloids, electron emission, fission, and gravitation. The 901 tables are fully searchable and the index is hyperlinked to the data.
Tables that appeared in the 71st-79th editions of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics but have been removed, retitled, or rearranged in the 83rd Edition (2002-2003) are listed on the page.
The data in this resource is a revision of the tables in the thermochemistry section of the International Critical Tables of Numeric Data, Physics, Chemistry, and Technology. It contains heats of formation, transition, fusion, vaporization, and reaction. It is fully searchable and the index is hyperlinked to the data.
ThermoDex is a searchable database containing records for over 90 printed handbooks and Web-based compilations of thermodynamic and thermophysical data for chemical compounds.
Cramster is a study community comprised of students and teachers helping each other to solve problems in mathematically-based subjects like chemistry, physics, and computer science; mathematics courses such as calculus and statistics are also covered. Cramster creates and provides access to study materials (textbook solutions, topic notes, sample problems, and practice tests) along with materials developed by community members. The Cramster Answer Board, which is moderated by subject experts, furnishes community members with an opportunity to ask and answer questions. Basic membership is free, but registration is required. Premium membership, with additional benefits, is available for a fee.
Ask a question & get an answer from a University of Virginia physics professor; or, seach the archive for previously asked questions.
The OpenScience Project contains a directory of open source scientific software. The physics section lists resources under several categories including: computational, condensed matter, dynamics, fluid dynamics, high energy, nuclear, and plasma. A search engine is also included.
The AIP Style Manual provides guidance and advice for preparing manuscripts for AIP and its member societies' publications. The manual's full text is available from this Web site and in the Science Library's circulating collection (QC 5.45 A45 1990).