Iona Prep Physics Links

 

This list is divided into 7 broad categories:

Experiments and Demonstrations

Iona Prep's listing of JAVA demonstrations used in class.

Contemporary College Physics library of Java demonstrations.

Home Experiments which you can do using very simple equipment.

The Power and the Glory has experiments related to reaction time and physical fitness.

U.C.Berkeley Physics Lecture Demonstrations Information on how to demonstrate various physical phenomena. A possible source for project ideas.

Museum Listings

Exploratorium, a famous science museum located in San Francisco. This site may give you some ideas if you are looking to do a science project.

The Museum of Science in Boston

Reference Materials

Earth and Sky Homepage Contains astronomy information. You might find some ideas here to spark your creativity or imagination if you want to do an astronomy project.

Imagine the Universe Contains descriptions of concepts in astronomy, astronomical data, and links to other astronomy sites and astronomy data.

Twenty SI prefixesEveryone knows kilo and mega, but how about yotta and zepto?

Using the Internet for school reports contains information to help you evaluate information which you find. Is this information current, accurate, serious? This was published by the Boston Public Library.

Physics Reference Data contains such things as constants, spectral data, and the like.

Midwest Physics Factbook A collection of brief articles and data containing interesting facts such as the voltage of the electric chair, the speed of continental plates, frequency of the heart, blackout acceleration in pilots, and much more.

Periodic Table of the Elements contains a great deal of detailed information about the elements

Conversion of units calculator helps with those pesky distance, mass/weight, and volume conversions.

Schools

Physics Class Table of Contents From Glenbrook South High School. Physics learning materials at the high school physics level. If you like that, also check out Multimedia Physics Studio and Shockwave physics studio.

Science Humor

Physlink.com contains links to cartoons, humor, and other physics content.

Physics Songs can be found both on this site and at PhysicsSongs.org.

Sports and Science

Science of Baseball from the Exploratorium.

Science of Hockey from the Exploratorium.

Sport Science meets the Olympics

Other Links:

Iona Prep's Science Project Resources page.

Texas Instrument Calculator information

Physics Resources from Science Junction

Scientific American Magazine

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Last Update: by Br. Robert W. Harris