Physics: Web Sites

General Resources

• AIP Style Manual
  Download the 4th edition of the AIP Style Manual.
• Links to Online Unit Conversions
  Links to several online sources for unit conversion.
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
  NTIS is the federal government's central source for scientific, technical, engineering, and related business information. Some of the information is available electronically from this website; for something that is not, check to see if the library has it.
• NTIS Conversion Factors
  This conversion guide comes from Appendix B of the NTIS Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI).
• Physics Central
  The American Physical Society (APS) uses Physics Central to communicate the excitement and importance of physics to everyone. The website is updated daily and includes physics in the news, answers to how things work, and descriptions of the latest research and the people who are doing it.
• PhysicsWeb
  PhysicsWeb is a free service from the Institute of Physics (IOP). It features physics news, jobs, and resources; enhanced highlights of Physics World magazine; events; free alerts; a buyer's guide; and products and press.
• PhysLink.com: Physics and Astronony Online
  PhysLink.com is a physics and astronomy education, research and reference website.
• Science.gov
  Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.

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Astronomy Resources

• Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards
  This NASA website provides a bibliography, a multimedia gallery, a list of related links, and other information regarding asteroids and comets reaching the Earth.
• AstroWeb
  AstroWeb is a collection of links to astronomically relevant Internet resources.
• Earth and Moon Viewer
  This website allows the user to view different areas of the Earth or the Moon from a variety of perspectives.
• NASA Astronaut Biographies
  This website provides biographical information on the members of the space flight crews and candidates for future missions in NASA's space flight program.
• NASA Human Space Flight
  This website is dedicated to information regarding NASA human space flight.
• The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
  This website provides an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system.
• Nobel Laureates in Physics 1901-present
  This webpage contains a chronological list of award winners with brief biographical information and a description of the discovery.
• The Parallax Project
  Digital version of the 10 volumes of star parallax data and calculations published as the Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh between 1910 and 1969.
• Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
  The SOHO project is a cooperative effort between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA to explore the sun.
• Views of the Solar System
  This website presents multimedia information about the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more.

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Data Sets

• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
  Funded by Milner Library, so remote access is restricted to Illinois State University students, faculty, and staff.
• International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
  This source contains data on inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances.
• Physical Reference Data
  This National Institute of Standards and Technology website provides a variety of reference data, such as atomic spectoscopic data, ionization data, and x-ray and gamma-ray data.
• Smithsonian Physical Tables
  This source contains hundreds of tables covering a broad scope of common physical and chemical data.

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Educational Resources

• Antimatter: Mirror of the Universe
  This website, from CERN, allows users to discover what antimatter is, where it is made, and how it is already part of our lives.
• Astronomy Center
  This website is a collection of digital resources for college-level introductory astronomy faculty and students.
  
• Auroras: Paintings in the Sky
  This website shows what auroras look like on Earth and from space, explain how they are created, and show where they can be found.
• A Century of Physics
  This 20th century timeline of physics, from the American Physical Society, includes 5 different story-lines: the cosmic scale, the human scale, the atomic scale, the living world, and technology.
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
  This website archives information on 86 twentieth century women who have made original and important contributions to physics. The entries describe and document their major contributions and provide biographical information related to their scientific lives.
• Einstein Light
  Presents the complex ideas of Einstein's theory of relativity as clearly and simply as possible.
• Flash Animations for Physics
  This website provides over 80 Flash animations covering topics typical for an introductory high school or college physics course.
  
• The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
  This website provides an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system.
• Particle Adventure: The Fundamentals of Matter and Force
  This educational website provides an interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter, extra dimensions, dark matter, accelerators, and particle detectors.
• Physics Education Technology
  Free simulations that related to the real world and help explain concepts such as motion, work, sound, power, and thermodynamics.
• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Virtual Visitor Center
  The Virtual Visitor Center is intended for the general public, particularly students and teachers.
• Theater of Electricity
  An educational website from the Museum of Science, Boston.
• A Walk Through Time: The Evolution of Time Measurement
  This website, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, contains text, black and white images, and a bibliography.

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Images

• Berkeley Lab Photo Archive
  A searchable and browsable collection of images from the Berkeley Lab's photo archives.
• Great Images in NASA (GRIN)
  GRIN is a collection of images documenting NASA.
• NASA Image eXchange (NIX)
  The NASA Image eXchange is a web-based search engine for simultaneously searching one or more of NASA's online image and photo collections.
• NASA Multimedia Gallery
  This website includes a photo gallery, a video gallery, an audio gallery, and an arts gallery.
• Science Service Historical Image Collection
  This collection, representing twentieth-century scientific research in electricity, contains images and original captions as they appeared in period publications.

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Journal Services

• IOP Select
  A free service highlighting articles chosen by IOP editors for their novelty, significance and potential impact on future research.
• Physics Reviews
  This free service from IOP brings together review articles published in IOP's journals. Access to the full-text of articles is restricted to subscribers of the source journal.
• This Month's Papers
  This service from IOP makes the full-text of aritcles published in IOP journals freely available for 30 days from the date of online publication.
• Virtual Journals in Science and Technology
  This series of journals has been jointly developed by the AIP and the APS. Each journal is an online collection of relevant papers from a broad range of "source" journals in the physical sciences. Subscribers to the source journal will have access to full-text articles.
  Applications of Superconductivity
  Biological Physics Research
  Nanoscale Science and Technology
  Quantum Information
  Ultrafast Science

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Physics Resources

• A Century of Physics
  This 20th century timeline of physics, from the American Physical Society, includes 5 different story-lines: the cosmic scale, the human scale, the atomic scale, the living world, and technology.
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
  This website archives information on 86 twentieth century women who have made original and important contributions to physics. The entries describe and document their major contributions and provide biographical information related to their scientific lives.
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
  Located near Chicago, Fermilab is the world's highest-energy physics laboratory.
• IOP Select
  A free service highlighting articles chosen by IOP editors for their novelty, significance and potential impact on future research.
• Nobel Laureates in Physics 1901-present
  This webpage contains a chronological list of award winners with brief biographical information and a description of the discovery.
• Physical Review Focus
  Physical Review Focus stories explain selections from Physical Review and Physical Review Letters for students and researchers in all fields of physics.
• Physics Reviews
  This free service from IOP brings together review articles published in IOP's journals. Access to the full-text of articles is restricted to subscribers of the source journal.
• This Month's Papers
  This service from IOP makes the full-text of aritcles published in IOP journals freely available for 30 days from the date of online publication.

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Pre-Print Sources

• arXiv.org e-Print archive
• Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive

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Women in Physics

• Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
  AWIS - Heart of Illinois Chapter
  AWIS is dedicated to achieving equity and full participation for women in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
  This website archives information on 86 twentieth century women who have made original and important contributions to physics. The entries describe and document their major contributions and provide biographical information related to their scientific lives.
• Women in Physics: IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics (2002)
  The conference proceedings are freely available.
• Women in Physics: 2nd IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics (2005)
  The conference proceedings are freely available.

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