Physics Education

• American Association of Physics Teachers
• American Journal of Physics.
• APS Forum on Education.
• Caltech course Physics 103b, how to estimate orders of magnitude.
• ComPADRE, Resources for Physics & Astronomy Education.
• DOE declassified movies of atomic weapon detonations.
• Einstein Archives Online.
• Fermi Questions.
• Feynman
  • Feynman lectures available online through Microsoft Research (in a non-Linux friendly Silverlight format :( ).
  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics Site, has errata for the Lectures, exercises with solutions, and a forum for readers of the lectures.
  • Nanoscience talk "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom".
• High School physics:
  • LAAP: Learn Anytime Anywhere Platform,
  • New York Regents Physics exams.
  • The Physics Classroom.
  • Physics First, lectures at San Lorenzo Valley High School
  • Physics resource web page from Enloe High IB course.
  • Workshop Physics homepage.
• How To Become A Good Theoretical Physicist by Gerard 't Hooft.
• Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics.
• Java physics applets:
  • University of Oregon Physics Applets.
  • Physics Education Technology (PhET). Applets are here.
  • Walter Fendt Physics Java Applets.
• LON-CAPA, open-source physics course materials
• Making matter: the atomic structure of materials
• Kirby/Gollub Report on undergraduate physics education.
• Minnesosta Physics Education Project.
• NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty.
• The Official String Theory Web Site
• Online Books (free).
  • Connecting Research in Physics Education with Teaching Education (web book)
  • Lecture Notes on General Relativity by Sean Carroll.
  • Light and Matter online introductory physics books by Ben Crowell of Fullerton College.
  • Mathematical Tools for Physics, James Nearing.
  • Physics for Entertainment, Volume I by Yakov Perelman.
  • Physics of Waves by Howard Georgi.
  • Software Carpenty, course of practical software practices for scientists and engineers.
  • Sustainable energy --- without the hot air, by David MacKay.
• Open Source Physics (Wolfgang Christian).
• Optics for Kids.
• Outreach
  • U. California Irvine Physics Road Show, with videos of demos.
• PhysicsCentral: official APS site for public.
• Physics Education Group (Lillian McDermott)
• Physics Force, outreach program of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnessota.
• Physics ToolKit, previously known as World-in-Motion, is educational tool for recording and analyzing videos.
• Physics Questions
• Physical Sciences Resource Center (PSRC)
• PhysicsWorld.com
• Podcasts:
  • Learning about Teaching Physics
• Practical Uses of Math and Science, one-page examples for K-12 classes.
• Rube Goldberg machines, illustrations of elementary physics.
• Scaling examples:
  • Scaling of jumping.
  • Size and Scaling.
• SnowCrystals.com, a site all about snow flakes.
• sodaplay, website for creating and simulating objects made from virtual masses, springs, and muscles.
• Songs related to physics.
• Special Relativity Visualizations.
• Statistical Physics:
  • Thermal and Statistical Physics , online text by Harvey Gould and Jan Tobochnik.
• Student Understanding of Quantum Mechanics.
• Transistorized
• International Physics Olympiads IPhO