Iona Prep Physics Teacher's Resources

 

Table of Contents

• Java Libraries of Physics Stuff for use with classes or as demonstrations.
• Physics Resource Collections
• Free Physics Stuff Useful software, and it is free.
• Other Physics Resources of use mostly to teachers.
• Web Page Resources Check these out if you want to build your own physics site. This includes sources of information about HTML, JAVA, JavaScript, Gif images, and other useful stuff.

Java Libraries for Physics Stuff

• Mississippi State University applets by Taha Mzoughi.
• Fowler's physics applets.
• Physlets from Davidson Physics.
• Java Applets are also listed on the Demonstrations page of this site.

Resource Collections

• Explore Science by Ramon Pfaff contains a collection of demonstrations and labs covering many physics topics. (Requires the Shockwave Plug-in).
• Netscape Open Directory listing of physics demonstrations. Lots of good links here.
• Physics 2000 an interactive journey through modern physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
• The Physics Classroom from Glenbrook South High School.
• Multimedia Physics Studio from Glenbook South. Gif animations.
• Internet Concept Extras by Dr. John P. Cise, Austin Community College.
• Physical Science Resource Center sponsored by the A.A.P.T.
• Science Junction selected physics web sites.
• Annotated Directory of Internet Resources by Mike Madin.
• WebPhysics from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis and the Air Force Academy.
• Physics On The Road from Purdue University
• Virtual Labs and Simulations - a great collection of links

Free Software - These are offered "AS IS" with no guarantees explicit or implicit.

• Graph - download, unzip, and print out any kind of graph paper.
• Oscilloscope - Turns the sound card on your computer into an oscilloscope.
• Signal - Turns the sound card on your computer into an audio signal generator.
• Spectrum - Turns your sound-card equipped computer into a spectrum analyzer.

Other Resources

• Amusement Park Physics
• AAPT High School Committee information about the Committee's activities and sources of information for high school physics teachers.
• NIST Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty
• Minds On ScienceTeacher resources
• Little Shop of Physics from Colorado State. Check out the online experiments.
• Hangman game.
• Electrical Safety
• Electric Rates by state

Web Page Resources

• Bellsnwhistles.com lots of free resources for someone constructing a web page. Includes free gifs and much more.
• Image-ination.com Check out this site for interactivity tools such as web based quiz and homework generation tools.
• Matt's Script Archives When you feel the need to move beyond HTML and into CGI scripting, this is the place to start.
• Another Script Archive
• Venus Animated Gif archives the name says it all. Many of the gifs in the Catholic Memorial site are from these archives.
• TechCrawler is a search engine which,as you might guess from its name, is for tech pros. All results come from the Web's top tech sites.

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