Physics 143 Fall 2007
Some Cool Links

(some of this was taken from Prof. Greenside's PHY 211 links page)

• Local Links

  • Duke Physics Challenges
  • Duke Student Physics Society
  • Duke PHY 211 (Quantum Mechanics I)

• On-line Physics Journals, Societies, etc.

  • Physics Focus    Easy-to-read brief summaries of recent Physical Review Letters.
  • Physics News Update    Easy-to-read brief summaries of general advances in Physics, often with nice graphics.
  • Science News     Brief nontechnical discussions of recent advances in science.
  • The American Physical Society

• National Labs

  • Fermilab
  • Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • The National Institute of Standards and Technology

• Industrial Connections

  • Bell Labs History Museum 
  • Lucent Technologies
  • IBM Physics Research, especially the following links:
  • material science
  • nanotechnology
  • quantum information and computation
  • STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscopy) Gallery

• Other links

• A Century of Physics
• Millikan's Measurement of Planck's Constant
• Nobel Prizes in Physics
• Quantum wave packets (Carlos Stroud's group at the U of Rochester)