Physics Resources

AIP Physics News - A weekly summary by the American Institute of Physics on the latest advances in Physics.

American Physical Society - An excellent site. Home of the American Physical Society on the web, it provides comprehensive coverage of the physical world. Of note are the Physics Internet Resources pages, including a good set of physics teaching sites.

Astronomical Society of the Pacific - The largest general astronomy society in the world supports this site, which includes links to other astronomy related sites and information for teaching astronomy in the classroom.

Elemental Data Index - A best site for finding scientific data on a specific element.

European Physical Society - This site aims to promote physics and physicists in Europe and includes very helpful links and position papers.

Fermilab - Fermilab is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory for research that explores the fundamental nature of matter and energy.

High Energy Physics Information Center - Part of the Fermilab website, it posts journals, the latest news, events, and general physics resources.

FirstGov for Science - Connects you to U.S. Government science & technology resources in physics.

Institute of Physics - Homepage of this international society, it provides access to journals, magazines, and links to physics sites and other helpful services.

International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology - "Contains an enormous amount of critical data on inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances."

International Numerical Relativity Group - Supported by a group dedicated to the study of phenomena predicted by Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, it has movies, papers, exhibitions and projects on black holes, gravitational waves, and other interesting phenomena.

IOP Select - Collected articles from the Institute of Physics, chosen "for their novelty, significance and potential impact on future research".

New York Times on the Web: Physical Science - Provides the latest news from the world of physical science

Online Particle Physics Information - from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Physics 2000 - An outstanding site!

physicsweb - Includes "Best of Physics Web" which brings together articles about the most exciting areas of modern physics; news; jobs; resources (including humor); and Physics World e-zine.

for scientific information only - A comprehensive search engine devoted to science and by Elsevier Science. Good for finding peer-reviewed articles. Easy to use.

Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Revised Edition) - "This classic reference source comprises 901 tables of general interest to scientists..."

StarDate Online - Astronomy information and inspiration about careers in science and technology from the University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory.

Web Physics. An outstanding site for "teaching and learning physics with World Wide Web technology". Includes links to students lab reports and honors' theses online.

WWW Virtual Library - Physics - Find links to incredible sites in any of eight major topics in physics: acoustics and vibrations, astronomy and astrophysics, beam physics and accelerator technology, high energy physics, horology (time keeping), nuclear physics, optics, or plasmas.