South West
Links
Institute of Physics Links:
- Why Physics? (for students and teachers)
- Schools affiliation to the Institute of Physics
- Physics courses in the UK
- Careers in Physics
- Science Events in SW England
- Support for physics teachers
- Awards for physics teachers
- physics.org - Type in a question (such as `How does a laser work?') and you are given links to web pages that provide the answer in a way accessible by school students.
Physics Departments at Universities in the South West:
A useful list of Science sites:
Educational Hotlists
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/activity/act-summ.html
From the Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia - Educational Hotlists of web resources for science educators and science enthusiasts.
Particle Physics
Particle Physics in the UK
http://hepweb.rl.ac.uk/ppUK/
This is a great website, with information about particle physics aimed at the general viewer, and useful links.
Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP)
http://pdg.lbl.gov/cpep.html
Learn about basic particle physics in an interactive 'Particle Adventure' (similar to the Particles and Interactions disk.) Plus more information about the CPEP and how to order their charts and other products. Also interactive Fusion Science and Nuclear Science.
The Particle Adventure
http://ParticleAdventure.org/
A good introduction to particle physics.
CERN
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/
CERN pages for the public - well worth looking at.
Oxford Particle and Nuclear Physics
http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/documents/PUS/Default.html
Information for schools and the general public, including
http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/documents/PUS/particledemos/DelphiIntro/index.html
Events at Delphi, presented as detective work.
Particle Physics
http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/pub/phil/ppintro/ppintro.html (the Rutherford Laboratory).
PPARC's booklet introducing particle physics, especially at CERN and LEP.
Links to HEP laboratories
http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~delphi/majorlab.html
A good list of links to major particle physics laboratories.
Links to HEP experiments
http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~delphi/majorexp.html
A good list of links to major particle physics laboratories.
The OPAL experiment at LEP
http://http://www.cern.ch/Opal/
Information about the OPAL detector, including a tour of the detector.
Super-Kamiokande
http://www.ps.uci.edu/~superk/sk-info.html
A good introduction to neutrino physics from the laboratory where neutrino oscillations were first observed.
The Gran Sasso Laboratory
http://www.lngs.infn.it/
Particle physics underground, without accelerators, at an international laboratory in Italy under the Grand Sasso Massif.
Other areas:
The Great Magnet, the Earth
http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthmag/demagint.htm
Very well presented site, starting from Gilbert's 'De Magnete' and ending with planetary magnetism,
NASA pages
http://www.nasa.gov/
Visit NASA's 'cool sites' - links at the bottom of the page. Information on Earth as well as on the planets and spaceflight.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html
All you wanted to know about space ...
Hubble Space Telescope
http://www.stsci.edu/
Pictures from Hubble and more ....
Physics 2000
http://www.Colorado.EDU/physics/2000/
Very good educational site on electromagnetism and atoms, with many interactive applets. Schools may apply on official notepaper for a free cd-rom.
Microworlds
http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/
An interactive tour of materials research at the Advanced Light Source at the Lawrence Berkeley laboratory in California.
Science Activities
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/activity/act-summ.html
From the Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia. Ideas for teachers for activities that explore scientific concepts - mainly for primary schools.
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