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Contemporary (Nuclear) Physics Education Project (CPEP)
A product of teachers, educators, and physicists located around the world. Charts, brochures, web features, and classroom activities present the current understanding of cosmic rays, radiation, particle physics, fission, fusion, and similar topics. Award-winning site.
http://www.cpepweb.org/
Fusion FAQ Glossary
USENET FAQ glossary on fusion energy.
http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/Glossary/glossary...
What is the Higgs Boson?
From Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Physics.
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cf...
SLAC Visitor Center
Information provided by SLAC for informing the general public about particle physics.
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/
The Science of Particle Physics
Overview of elementary particle physics experiments and research at Fermilab.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/physics/
Classical, Quantum, and Statistical Mechanics Education Sites
A collection of links to assorted sites with educational material in these three forms of mechanics.
http://tigger.uic.edu/~mansoori/Thermodyna...
Virtual Radioactivity Lab
Explore radioactive decay and half-life with radioactive sources, screens and a geiger detector.
http://home.earthlink.net/~mmc1919/halflif...
Atom Builder
A shockwave application that allows the user to add up and down quarks to a hydrogen nucleus to create a carbon nucleus.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/atom/
Life, the Universe and the Electron
Describes electrons, their properties, their effects and their discovery.
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/el...
Bremsstrahlung
An overview of bremsstrahlung (or stopping radiation). From The Particle Detector BriefBook.
http://rd11.web.cern.ch/RD11/rkb/PH14pp/no...
Nuclear Power Plant Demonstration
Java applet of a basic nuclear power plant. Try to keep the reactor running safely under various failure scenarios.
http://www.ida.liu.se/~her/npp/demo.html
Nuclear Power
Overviews the principles of nuclear fission and its use to generate power, why uranium can be fissioned, n/p ratio and delayed neutrons, moderators, also Chernobyl and 3-Mile Island.
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Snuclear.htm
Perspective on Plasmas
Educational information on plasma applications including controlled fusion.
http://www.plasmas.org
Decays
Introductory information on particle decays produced by the Stanford Linear Accelerator.
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/d...
Nuclear Science and Technology and How It Influences Your Life
Covers five major application fields: food irradiation, industry, medicine, space, and electricity.
http://www.aboutnuclear.org/
Meltdown at Three Mile Island, a Documentary
Companion site to the PBS show of the same name. Covers "How a Nuclear Reactor Works" and "What Happened," showing the series of events that took place on March 28, 1979. Useful for a quick lesson about Three Mile Island. Also has teacher's guide to the show and a link for ordering the video. Requires Java-enabled browser.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/three/
Fusion Energy Education
Leads to several excellent resources which teach about fusion.
http://FusEdWeb.pppl.gov/
Nuclear Physics
A free E-Learning course on nuclear physics, covering the grammar school curriculum of atomic and nuclear physics. It features: interactive excercises and examinations, a glossary and a forum.
http://www.weigt-server.de/~martin_maas/np...
GCSE Physics: Radioactivity
Simple, concise introductory tutorials about radioactivity and atoms.
http://www.gcse.com/radio/rad.htm
OnScreen Particle Physics
A simulation for Mac and Windows 95/98/NT that allows even beginning students to experience what real particle physics experiments are like. Demo versions available for download.
http://www.onscreen-sci.com/
Leptons
Introductory information on leptons (electrons, muons, taus, and neutrinos).
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/l...
General Atomics Fusion Group Educational Home Page
resources for teachers and students; links to a more technical GAT fusion site
http://fusioned.gat.com/
Antimatter: Mirror of the Universe
A thorough discussion covering all aspects of antimatter.
http://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromce...
Fusion Energy Sciences Program
Mission is to acquire the knowledge base needed for an economically and environmentally attractive fusion energy source.
http://wwwofe.er.doe.gov/
Fusion: Physics of a Fundamental Energy Source:
An introduction to the principles of fusion geared towards high school students. Posters in various languages also available for download or ordering.
http://fusedweb.llnl.gov/CPEP/Chart.html
Tau Decay Physics
Summary of decay modes and their probabilities.
http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLEO/CLE...
Introduction to Particle Physics
Beginners guide to particle physics.
http://blueflag.phys.yorku.ca/yhep/main.ht...
Introduction to High Energy Physics and ATLAS
Describes the work of the Hampton University Particle Physics group in the ATLAS project as well as material and links for particle physics and general physics education.
http://www.jlab.org/~cecire/hepathu.html
How Stuff Works: How Atom Smashers Work
Tutorial with 28 color illustrations and photographs.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/atom-smasher....
The Particle Adventure
An award-winning site from the Particle Data Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. "A tour of the inner workings of the atom."
http://particleadventure.org
Fermilab Education
For students, educators, visitors.
http://www-ed.fnal.gov/
Reflections on Matter
Atoms to quarks, quantum physics, the big bang, and newer theories about matter.
http://molaire1.club.fr/e_plan.html
The Internet Plasma Physics Education Experience (IPPEX)
The site "allows students and teachers to participate remotely in scientific research at [America's] largest fusion energy laboratory." Requires Java-capable browser and Shockwave plug-in to be able to use the excellent educational modules. Also has an "ask the expert" forum for fusion-related questions.
http://ippex.pppl.gov/
FusEdWeb
Fusion Energy Educational Web Site at LLNL
http://FusEdWeb.llnl.gov/
Nuclear War and You
The effects of a nuclear blast.
http://www.holidaywest.com/nuclearwarhead....
Timeline of the Nuclear Age
A chronological record of the nuclear age: links to people, documents and educational units. Explore political and ethical dilemmas of the Nuclear Age.
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/timeline/
"God Particle" Possibly Discovered
A report on one of the potentially most important discoveries of the new millennium, along with a summary of the standard model of particle physics.
http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/h...
Fermilabyrinth
A collection of Web-based games and activities to develop an understanding of the operations and experiments that take place in the Fermilab accelerator and detector halls and the scientific ideas they explore. Has a special section for teachers.
http://www-ed.fnal.gov/projects/labyrinth/
CHESS X-ray Visions
Celebration of 100 years since the discovery of X-rays. Elaborates on uses of x-rays and details the research conducted with the CHESS synchrotron located below the Cornell campus.
http://www.chess.cornell.edu/pubs/xrybrchr...
Learning Science with Computer Assistance: Physics Topics
A set of simulations to illustrate the historical models of atomic structure and the behavior of light.
http://home.alphalink.com.au/~vmck/
What is Antimatter?
From Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Physics.
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cf...
Visual Quantum Mechanics
Instructional units that introduce quantum physics to high school and college students who do not have a background in modern physics or higher level math using interactive computer programs and digital multimedia in an activity based environment.
http://phys.educ.ksu.edu/
ABC's of Nuclear Science
An introduction to the world of the atomic nucleus and its structure. Includes the description of radioactive decays, cosmic radiation, fission, fusion, and antimatter.
http://www.lbl.gov/abc/
Cross Section
Introduction to cross section, an important concept in scattering.
http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/c...
ATLAS Educational Information
The ATLAS Experiment is to be carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator facility of the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Website is intended for people of all ages who are curious about fundamental particles and forces as well as about particle research.
http://atlasexperiment.org/
FAQ about Fusion Research
The FAQ (from Princeton Plasma Physics Lab) is not very extensive, but it has an impressive Glossary.
http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/FAQ/fusion-faq.ht...
Cherenkov Radiation
From The Particle Detector BriefBook.
http://rd11.web.cern.ch/RD11/rkb/PH14pp/no...
Big Bang Science
Site seeks to explain the origins of matter and current high-energy research regarding the conditions of the early universe. The information presented here is published in booklet form by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC).
http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/pub/bigbang/part1.h...
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2006