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  1. Annual Reviews
    Access reviews of research and discovery [abstracts, full text, .pdf]. The beginning decade is with each link.
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  2. Ask an Expert :
    • Ask a Physics Professor
      ‘If you have questions about how things work, or why things are the way they are, visit Physics Central.’
    • Ask the Experts
      Try one of the experts via the Scientific American site.
  3. Books, Documents & Other Materials :
    • Textbooks :
      • Sparknotes
        54 study guides covering a vast range of Physics areas.
      • Libri del Gruppo
        A mix of books in Italian and English. English include ‘Fluid Mechanics, Foundations’ and ‘Aspects of the Ergodic, Qualitative and Statistical Theory of Motion’.
      • Visit the new Textbooks’ page for a listing of this and other area’s textbooks that are available for Free, either online or in downloadable format.
    • Wiley InterScience : Physics & Astronomy
      Listings of books, journals, databases and more.
  4. Fluid Mechanics :
    • Fluid Dynamics
      Includes sections covering an overview, history, miscellaneous topics such as Viscous v. Inviscid Flows, Potential Flows, applications, links to related sites and more.
    • Fluid Mechanics
      Contains tutorials, calculators, links, a gallery and more.
    • Fluid Mechanics : An Overview
    • Fluid Mechanics Demonstrations
      29 Fluid Mechanics demonstrations, most with brief descriptions and diagrams.
    • Fluid Mechanics, Gallery of
      ‘The current idea is to provide a collection of pictures, movies, and even sounds which illustrate the amazing variety and beauty of fluid flows. As indicated on the front page of the Gallery, explanations of the physics are included partly to illustrate where classroom concepts “show up” in everyday life.’
      There appears to be some difficulty with this site. It will only be maintained till the next update unless it comes back completely.
    • Fluid Mechanics Problems, Solutions, Notes, …
      [Basics, Help, Tutorials]
      The link’s section is particularly strong, with clear titles but no annotations.
    • Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
      An online, updated version of the book by Nakayama and Boucher. Downloadable in chapter form as either .pdf or Text.
    • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, The
      Has an online digital archive which ‘is a repository of every single article published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics between 1956 and 1996. Articles are reproduced as high-resolution PDFs, and the archive is fully searchable.’

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G - L

  1. General Sites & Portals :
    • Amusement Park Physics
      How the laws of physics impact on amusement park rides.
    • Cramster Physics Help
      ‘Cramster is a global online study community centered on providing understanding to math questions whether it’s related to homework, exam preparation or general learning.’ Based on specific textbooks used, leading to related solutions and also other resources.
    • Elegant Universe, The
      ‘Eleven dimensions, parallel universes, and a world made out of strings. It’s not science fiction, it’s string theory.’ Articles, interviews, slide shows, interactive presentations and resources.
    • Eric Weisstein’s World of Physics
      Astrophysics, Electromagnetism, Experimental Physics, Fluid Mechanics, History, Modern Physics, Mechanics, Optics, States of Matter, Thermodynamics, Units and Dimensional Analysis & Wave Motion.
    • Perpetual Motion & Free Energy Machines
      Historical catalogue of Free Energy machines. In reality, an exposé of ‘scams’. Interesting.
    • Physics 2000
      ‘Interactive journey through modern physics ! Have fun learning visually and conceptually about 20th Century science and high-tech devices.’ Einstein’s Legacy, The Atomic Lab, Science Trek and more. Includes applets.
    • Physics 24/7
      [Physics Homework Help From Experts]
      An absolute wealth of assistance in all areas of Physics. It includes the following sections which are Free : ‘Our glossary provides definitions of terms from acceleration to zeroeth law; Our Physics Tutorial is a collection of articles that teach physics concepts by explaining every day events or phenomena; We have received praise from parents for our Physics Study Skills Articles. Students and teachers can also benefit from our collection of Free self-correcting Physics quizzes found here.’ Primarily covers secondary levels, though it could prove useful at tertiary level.
    • Physlink
      Links to third party sites and some to specialist societies.
  2. History, Physics :
    • Centre for History of Physics, The
      ‘The Centre for History of Physics preserves and makes known the history of modern physics and allied fields.’ Has catalogs, resources and their Links page is really quite good. Archives include visual presentations.
    • History Exhibits
      ‘Exhibits and other online resources for history of physics and allied fields.’ Many downloadable.
    • The Net Advance of Physics
      From MIT. Covers general links and links to specific fields and famous experiments. Very extensive.
    • Physics in Australia to 1945
      A ‘Bibliography and Biographical Register. Search for a name or term, or browse alphabetically by name,’
  3. Journals & Magazines :
    • American Journal of Physics
      Browse through 42 years of issues. You need to subscribe to actually search through the articles. You can purchase articles.
    • APS Research Journals online
      There is a considerable range from journals to newsletters. All are Fee-based. ‘All users may freely browse the tables of contents for the current and previous issues, the published abstracts, and an advance listing of accepted papers scheduled for upcoming issues.’
    • Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics
      ‘Open access journal for theoretical physics.’ All issues are available online.
    • Full Text Physics Journals
      ‘This site lists Physics-related Journals, which are freely available [= Free fulltext] on the net.’
    • Journal of Applied Physics
      Current Issue, other online issue, Free sample issue.
    • New Journal of Physics
      ‘The open-access journal for physics.’
    • New Scientist
      Online magazine keeping you up to date with what is happening in science.
    • Physics Journals
      Well annotated listing from World Scientific. 22 listed at date of inclusion.
    • Physics Links
      The first two sections provide links to Preprints and Abstracts and to Journals Online. Quite extensive.
    • Physics Today
      ‘Your daily physics news and research source.’

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M - R

  1. Physicists :
    • General Sites & Portals :
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    • Individuals :
      • Bohr, Neils
        His Nobel information.
      • Boyle, Robert
        Biography, online manuscripts, researcher’s area, teacher’s area, what’s new, …
      • Curie, Marie
        Gives a brief history of her and her work and presents an exhibit. Can be downloaded.
      • Einstein, Albert
        Extensive collection of links covering the man and his works.
      • Faraday, Michael
        Extensive text article on Faraday, with a downloadable .pdf file of ‘Text of Experimental Researches in Electricity’.
      • Feynman, Richard P.
        Extensive collection of links covering the man and his works. Everything from a biography to videos and quotes.
      • Galileo Project, The
        ‘Is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei [1564-1642]. Our aim is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise.’
      • Hawking, Stephen
        Quantum physicist and also a man considered to be one of the finest scientific brains alive.
      • Heisenberg, Werner and the Uncertainty Principle
        His history as well as information on the Uncertainty Principle.
      • Huygens, Christiaan
        ‘The best known scientist of the Dutch Golden Age. His inventions and discoveries in astronomy, physics and mathematics revolutionized 17th century science.’ Dutch and English versions of the site.
      • Kelvin
        Extensive text article, short bibliography and several links.
      • Isaac Newton Resources
        ‘There are already many excellent and informative Web sites and books about Newton, so rather than duplicate those, we have put together a guide to some of the places, both real and virtual, where you can find out more.’
      • Planck, Max
        Biography, his life, work and personality.
      • Rutherford, Ernest
        Biography, milestones, bibliography, books and much more.
      • Sakharov, Andrei
        ‘A Soviet physicist who became, in the words of the Nobel Peace Committee, a spokesman for the conscience of mankind. He was fascinated by fundamental physics and cosmology, but first he spent two decades designing nuclear weapons.’
  2. Quantum Physics :
  3. Relativity :
    • Alice Law
      Discover about both special and general relativity with this program which can be downloaded or read online.
    • Einstein Light
      From the University of New South Wales. Scientific American described it as ‘the finer points of relativity in less time than it takes to eat a sandwich’. Covers Galileo, Maxwell, Einstein, Time Dilation, E=mc². Includes film clips, animations, related links, multimedia and more.
      Absolutely Brilliant !

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S - Z

  1. String Theory :
    • An Introduction to String Theory
      ‘A Talk by Steuard Jensen, 11 February 2004.’ Quite interesting.
    • Second Superstring Revolution, The
      Contents cover 6 sections including basics, brief history, the second revolution and more.
    • M-theory
      From Wikipedia. ‘In physics, M-theory [sometimes also called U-theory] is put forward as the master theory that unifies the five superstring theories.’ Embedded links and external links as well as the text presentation.
    • new !M-theory, The Theory Formerly Known as Strings
      From Cambridge University. Full discussion of this and links to related sections. Download in .pdf format.
    • String Theory [Wikipedia]
      Overview, basic properties, gauge-gravity duality, problems, controversy, history, popular culture, references, further reading and links to other sources.‘ ’
    • Superstrings !
      ‘This is an online introduction to superstring theory, which is the leading candidate for the theory of all fundamental interactions in the universe.’ Introduction, tutorial, references, glossary and links to further information.
    • Superstrings ! String Basics
      A very simple introduction from UCSB.
    • What is String Theory ?
      A brief introduction covering all the relevant points, followed by a listing of annotated links to further and more detailed information.
  2. Tools
    Includes software, creations, virtual laboratories, … .
    • Elmer
      ‘Elmer is an open source multiphysical simulation software developed by CSC. Elmer includes physical models of fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, electromagnetics, heat transfer and acoustics, for example. These are described by partial differential equations which Elmer solves by the Finite Element Method [FEM].’
    • Sodaplay
      Create a two dimensional creature and see how you can make it move.
  3. Tutorials :

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