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




• Local Links

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

• JAVA and other web-based programs/resources

 
• Applets:
• Mark's quantum applets (currently not responding - may be dead)
• Propagation of Gaussian wave packet
• TIPTOP virtual information
• Student understanding of quantum mechanics
• Visual quantum mechanics

• 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 Physics Society
• The Optics Society of America

 
• Industrial/National Lab 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
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Argonne National Laboratory
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• The National Institute of Standards and Technology

• Other links

• A Century of Physics
• Millikan's Measurement of Planck's Constant
• Nobel Prizes in Physics
• Quantum computing links
• Writing words on a hydrogen atom
• Quantum wave packets (Carlos Stroud's group at the U of Rochester)