CAPITAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE PHYSICS RESOURCES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

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How Things Work, the physics of everyday life, from the University of Virginia.

AIP -- American Institute of Physics, up-to-date developments in physics (oddly enough, from the University of Exeter, UK

PhysicsWeb, The Institute of Physics' (IOP) Publishing Department has launched this comprehensive site for physics news, commentary, patents, book reviews, web resources, events, and jobs.

This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics, provided by Professor John Baez of the University of California-Riverside

Virtual Physics Laboratory, interactive experiments in physics -- from University of Oregon. Try hitting the target with the cannon, adjusting for gravity, density of cannonball, windage, etc.

Stephen Hawkings' Universe This companion site to a six part Public Broadcasting System series that began October 13, 1997 features a series of essays by Astronomy Magazine associate editor Richard Talcott. There are other explanations of "strange stuff."

Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics This archive contains information about more than 50 women in the past century (to 1976) who have made original and important contributions to physics. The archive was compiled by UCLA staff and others "active in fields in which contributions have been made."

Life, the Universe, and the Electron, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Electron. A collaborative project of the Science Museum of London and the Institute of Physics.

About Temperature, a thorough discussion of temperature along with information about and diagrams of thermometers, heat and thermodynamics, kinetic theory, and radiation temperature.

ZEBU, the University of Oregon Physic Department Web Server

Hubble Space Telescope Educational Resources Requires a fast connection and a good monitor, as well as some software plugins (available at this site).

Yahoo's Index of Physics Resources

PhysLinks, maintained by the University of Arizona

American Physical Society

FermiLab, discovering the nature of nature

High Energy Physics Information Center

Nuclear Physics: Past, Present and Futurer, the physics of nuclear technology

NASA's High-Energy Astrophysics Learning Center, x-ray and gamma-ray astronomy

The AstroPhysical Journal, full-text articles, mostly in PDF format, from University of Chicago Press

Lasers, from the Lawrence Livermore Labs

JCP Express, articles from the Journal of Chemical Physics, from University of Chicago.

High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), astrophysics in cyberspace

AstroWeb, scores of astronomy-related resources

Images from the Hubble Telescope, courtesy of NASA

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, a historical look at one of the foremost physics labs in the world