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Similar physics courses on the web

Physicists and the Bomb Good looking course/links from University of Michican
Physics 191 Fall 1996 More good links from West Virginia University
American Institute of Physics History Site
History of 20th Century Physics Peter Galison, Harvard. Lots of references.
Science, technology, and national security Skidmore University (synopsis of Rhodes)
BANG! TALES FROM MODERN PHYSICS Excellent site with good physics links. U. Penn.
Physics 250 - Spring 2000 A recent U. Penn. course not unlike ours
The Scientific History of the Atomic Bomb from Hibbing Community College
Szilard as Inventor: Accelerators and More. Physics Today

Nuclear weapon test sites

DOE Nevada Test Site Videos and photos of weapons tests.
Trinity Atomic Web Site Videos of tests. Website contains history, technology, consequences, photos, and videos of nuclear weapons.
The High Energy Weapons Archive A Guide to Nuclear Weapons.
The Atomic Archive AJ Software & Multimedia presents this site as an online companion to its CD-ROM, Atomic Archive.
Milnet High res photo's. Site devoted to the technology and products of the U.S. military industrial complex, with a mind to creating realistic and believable works of fiction.
Andrei Sakharov and the Nuclear Danger. Physics Today

Quantum Mechanics

Visual Schrödinger: A Visualizer-Solver Applet for the One-Dimensional Schrödinger Equation
The Four-Part Argument for Pauli Exclusion This release dated 12 Nov 1996 (Copyright by Phil Fraundorf 1988-1996).
Feynman Diagrams
Feynman's Nobel Prize lecture on QED
QCD Made Simple Physics Today. Frank Wilczek.
String theory links
String theory
Particle Physics University of York
High energy physics information from FermiLab including The Particle Adventure
Review of Brian Greene's Elegant Universe and links to String Theory etc.
Griffiths, David J. Introduction to elementary particles / 1987. Science Library: Stacks - QC793.2 .G75 1987b.
Griffiths, David J. Introduction to quantum mechanics / 1995. Science-Library: Stacks - QC174.12 .G748 1995
Dreams of a Final Theory, by Steven Weinberg. Main Library : Stacks - QC21.2 .W428 1992
What is Quantum Field Theory, and What Did We Think It Is? by Steven Weinberg.
Renormalization Made Easy by John Baez
Spin-Statistics Theorem by John Baez
Fun Stuff - topics in mathematical physics by John Baez

All kinds of physics

Public lectures from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, UCSB with transparencies and audio!
Frank Wilczek, The World's Numerical Recipe
Don Eigler, Building Things with Atoms: A Report from the Small Frontier
Geoffrey Marcy, You Say You Want a Revolution: Planetary Systems Different from our Own
Melissa Franklin, This Particular Elegant Universe: How Do We Measure It?
Steven Girvin, Mr. Feynman's Quantum Mechanics: A Field Guide for Curious Characters
James Hartle, The Future of Gravity
Peter Galison, Einstein's Clocks: High Theory and Lowly Technology
Roger Penrose, Science and the Mind
Kip Thorne, Spacetime Warps and the Quantum: A Glimpse of the Future
Wolfgang Ketterle, A New Form of Matter: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Atom Laser
Edward Witten, Duality, Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics
Robert Kirshner, Taking the Measure of the Universe: How Big? How Old? How Do We Know?
Science World Wolfram Research
Hyperphysics
Physics 110: Physics for Liberal Arts Introductory physics course from University of Washington.
Powers of Ten website, based on the famous Eames production
Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements
Usenet Physics FAQ

Cosmology

The New Cosmology: From Quantum Fuzz to the Accelerating Universe University of Chicago
Inflation Interview with Alan Guth
A.H. Guth, The Inflationary Universe (Addison-Wesley, 1998). Now in paperback! A great book for the non-specialist on cosmology, especially modern theories of the early universe. Challenging but lucid discussions of physics, as well as informative historical background.
The First Three Minutes : A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, by Steven Weinberg
NASA measurements of Cosmic Microwave Backgroup
The New Cosmology: From Quantum Fuzz to the Accelerating Universe University of Chicago
AN EXPOSITION ON INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGY Gary Scott Watson, Brown University
Links to General Physics, Superstring Theory, Cosmology, and General Relativity. Gary Scott Watson, Brown University
Evolution of the Universe: March 1998 Scientific American article by Peebles et al.
Structure of Universe: June 1999 Scientific American article by Stephen D. Landy
Modern Cosmology: January 2001 Scientific American article by cosmology guru Jim Peebles

General Relativity

General Relativity lecture notes with book list. Sean Carroll, University of Chicago
E.F. Taylor and J.A. Wheeler, Exploring Black Holes (Benjamin/Cummings, 2000). An undergrad-level introduction to GR, focusing on black holes.
K.S. Thorne, Black Holes and Time Warps : Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (W.W. Norton, 1995).
A survey of a number of mind-expanding consequences of general relativity, from someone who certainly know what he is talking about. Includes discussions of well-established properties of black holes as well as speculations about time travel and other exotic possibilities.

Biophysics on the web

The Manipulation of Single Biomolecules Physics Today
DNA-Inspired Electrostatics. Physics Today
Motile Behavior of Bacteria. Howard. Berg Physics Today

Copenhagen

Thursday, May 16, 2002 8 PM
Michael Frayn’s play “Copenhagen”
at the Colonial Theatre after the final exam on May 16, 2002 at 8 PM.

Fill out this form, and follow these instructions in order to purchase tickets directly from the Colonial Theatre. You can buy tickets for any night of the performance (opens May 7), but we are going on May 16. Tickets are $35 and the seats will be on stage (see photo). These are both good seats and a low price.

Physicists discuss the play and the physics in the play
Niels Bohr Archive Release of documents relating to 1941 Bohr-Heisenberg meeting
What Bohr Remembered Thomas Powers, New York Review of Books
Copenhagen Revisited Michael Frayn, New York Review of Books
Copenhagen: An Exchange by Gerald Holton, Jonothan Logan, Reply by Michael Frayn, Thomas Powers, New York Review of Books
Secret letters cast light on Copenhagen
Secret Trove May Resolve 'Copenhagen'
A Historical Perspective on Copenhagen What was Werner Heisenberg trying to tell Niels Bohr during his visit to Copenhagen in 1941, and what did he want from Bohr? by David Cassidy, Physics Today. Also look at the articles by Bethe, Holton, and the review of Schweber's book.

Nuclear engineering courses on the web

Nuclear Technology State University of New York at Stony Brook
Nuclear Engineering University of Michigan
ChemCases Nuclear Chemistry lot's of good links. Kennesaw State University

Links about the Philosopher's Stone

transmutation of elements
Philosophers Stone
Chemical symbols used by Dalton plus a lot on alchemy
Egyptian symbols for the metals

Poetry in Middle English about the Philosopher's Stone

John Gower on Alchemy Harvard University
John Gower biography (1325?-1403) Harvard University
Help on pronounciation of middle english: The Chaucer MetaPage Audio Files
John Gower concerning the Philosopher's Stone and other poems on alchemy

Paintings of the Philosopher's Stone

Jan Steen
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Albrecht Durer's Melencolia
Joseph Wright of Derby
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