Andes Physics Tutor
- http://www.andes.pitt.edu/
- Andes is an intelligent tutoring system which teaches students how to solve physics problems. It provides a complete set of homework problems for an Introductory College Physics course or a high school AP physics course.
Assessing-to-Learn (A2L)
- http://a2l.physics.umass.edu/
- A research project on the use of continuous formative assessment in the high-school physics classroom. The website provides participating teachers with a library of assessment items (carefully constructed questions) to choose from for their classes, and with an associated library of teacher aids which provide help with the pedagogically effective use of the items.
Communities for Physics and Astronomy Digital Resources in Education (comPADRE)
- http://www.compadre.org/
- A project to create well organized, digital collections of high quality educational materials in physics and astronomy. ComPADRE consists of focused collections of materials for specific courses or serving specific constituencies, with connections to a wide range of online digital resources including curricular materials, digital libraries, and online journals, user communities that participate in the development and operation of these collections.
Computer Simulation Methods
- http://sip.clarku.edu/
- A web site devoted to faculty and students using computer simulation techniques as a method of discovery in physics. This is a companion site to a textbook, but provides content from other sources as well.
HSC Physics
- http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/hsc/
- School of Physics, University of New South Wales. Details about professional development workshops for physics teachers intended to provide background and advice on the Stage 6 HSC syllabus. Some resources related to this workshop are found on the site.
How Things Work
- http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/HTW//
- A service providing answers to questions about physics, science, and how things in the world around us work. Companion to the book by the same name.
MIT OpenCourseWare - Physics
- http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/
- Undergraduate and graduate courses available for noncredit study and review. Materials provided may include syllabi, reading assignments, videotaped lectures, problem sets with solutions, lecture notes, and exams with solutions.
Open Text
- http://www3.baylor.edu/Physics/open_text/
- Project to provide high quality free physics teaching materials to anyone who has access to the Internet. Similar to the “open source” concept for computer software. A cooperative building site for physics materials.
Physics Central
- http://www.physicscentral.org/
- The outreach site of the members of The American Physical Society. Find out how physics is part of your world, ask questions on how things work, see physics in pictures, get updates on physics in the news, read about research and the people who are doing it and, if you want more, recommended links.
Physics Comics
- http://www.bmts.com/~stoeckli/
- Comics-style lessons in physics fundamentals. Topics include motion, forces, vectors, work and energy, and impulse and momentum.
Physics First
- http://members.aol.com/physicsfirst/
- For the past 130 years, physics has been an integral part of science curriculum at the high school level. Its current vertical position, established about 100 years ago, is now strongly challenged.
Physics at Merton College
- http://www.lokon.demon.co.uk/
- Matters related to the AS-level & A-level physics courses. The material covers topics in physics and its related mathematics and will supplement one's normal classwork.
Physics for Beginners
- http://physics.webplasma.com/
- An introduction to some concepts in physics for the absolute beginner. Included is a equation solver which is for use with the Physics For Beginners section.
QuarkNet
- http://quarknet.fnal.gov/
- Supports centers at 60 universities and laboratories that are participants in the collider experiments at CERN in Switzerland and at Fermilab in Illinois. Physicists will mentor and collaborate with high school teachers. Stipends are provided to the teachers who participate.
Simple Electric Motors
- http://www.simplemotor.com/
- Summary of science projects by Stan Pozmantir, a junior secondary student. Easy-to-build and inexpensive electric motors utilizing many physics principles.
Society of Physics Students (SPS)
- http://www.aip.org/education/sps/
- Complete set of information for members of any level of SPS. Scholarships and awards, news, activities, staff, structure, online forms, student resources, and links to significant physics sites.
Space Station Phyve
- http://www.geocities.com/r_deruvo/
- A WebQuest for high school physics and MST students to research and design a rotating space colony. This highly scientific mission contains links and teacher rubric.
Space and Time
- http://info.hartwick.edu/physics/spacetime.html
- Course based on Stephen Hawking's best selling book, "A Brief History of Time". The course deals with topics in modern physics such as Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, Quantum Theory, Black Holes and the Creation of the Universe.
Teralab
- http://www.rhunt.f9.co.uk/
- Descriptions and photographs of electrostatics, electron bombardment and wave experiments done with home equipment.
