Some Useful or Interesting Physics-Related Websites

 

Science stories and physics articles on the web:

http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/ (Podcasts from the Journal Nature)

http://www.sciencefriday.com/ (Listen to great weekly science radio show from NPR)

http://focus.aps.org/ (Physics stories on the hottest research for students and non-specialists)

http://physics.aps.org/ (More physics articles on the latest papers and why they are important)

http://www.theskepticsguide.org/

http://digg.com/science

 

Astronomy Image of the day:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html (Great to space-related image every day)

 

American Physical Society:

http://aps.org/ (The American Physical Society; the major professional society for physicists in the US (and often abroad too). Links to Physics Review Journals and other resources.

 

The open-source archive where a large fraction of physics papers are posted before publication:

http://arxiv.org/

 

Teaching Physics and Teaching Resources:

http://aapt.org/ (American Association of Physics Teachers)

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/ (Facts for Teaching)

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html (Nice resource)

 

Classic sites:

http://www.particleadventure.org/

 

Cool simulations:

http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html

 

Other Sites:

www.nist.gov

www.nasa.gov