Web Resources
Professional Societies
- American Association of Physicists in Medicine
- American Association of Physics Teachers
- American Institute of Physics
- American Physical Society
- American Society of Mass Spectrometry
- Biophysical Society
- Gordon Research Conferences
- Institute of Physics (Britain)
- National Science Teachers' Association (NSTA)
- Optical Society of America
- Resources of Scholarly Societies-Physics
- Society of Physics Students (SPS) and its honorary, Sigma Pi Sigma
Laboratories & Research
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Brookhaven Protein Data Base - X-ray and NMR structures of biomacromolecules
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- European Space Agency
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- NASA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Sandia national Laboratories, California Site
- Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico Site
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
Education & Reference
- BUBL Link - Physics Education. An online database of Internet resources in physics education.
- Eric Mazur's website for ConCept Test materials.
- How Stuff Works - Well-written explanations of technology are useful for junior and senior high teachers.
- National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) - Get all kinds of data on constants, references, and units. And if you're sick of your school's (and your students') clocks not ever being in sync, you set the standard for everyone with this cool connection to the NIST Cesium clock!
- Physics Applets - University of Oregon's suite of JAVA applets for use in physics, astronomy, and environmental science courses
- Physics Central
- Physics Today
- Physics Departments Worldwide - A great database run by the University of Oldenburg's Department of Physics
- Physics Links
- Powers-of-Ten. Need a quick visual for a tutorial on the dimensions of the universe? Here's one developed partly by Mike Davidson, photomicrograph whiz at FSU.
- Science Education Bookmarks
- Optics for Kids