PHYSICS & SCIENCE LINKS
If you know of any other useful links then please
email their details to me: ktaggart@st-georges-college.co.uk
Revision Sites
Astronomy & Space
- Nine
Planets Very good for 2nd Year Solar System Project
& 4th Year Physics Summer Coursework.
- University
of Surrey Department of Physics Astrophysics Resource
Database.Useful stuff on AS astrophysics (although
there is more detail here than you will need) –
supports a textbook written by one of their staff. Has
good links to other websites.
- NASA NASA homepage
– vast – if you haven’t visited this one
you haven’t lived! Difficult to know where to start!
Very good on images – click on ‘Exploring the
Universe’ then ‘Stars and Galaxies’ –
this has a link to the Hubble Space Telescope site. Or
you could try the ‘Virtual Black Hole’ feature!
- NASA
Spaceflight Site What is the International Space
Station? What are living conditions like on the ISS -
food, sleep, activity. What scientific research is being
conducted on the ISS? Describe the most recent journey on
the space shuttle to the ISS?
- NASA Basics of
Space Flight
- NASA
for kids - the NASA space site for kids
- Imagine the
Universe (NASA) NASA’s ‘Imagine the
Universe’ science site.This gives you access to lots
of useful explanations and information.Try the
‘Advanced Science’ page too.
- NASA
Observatorium - great activities, simulations and
interactive games
- National Space
Science Data Centre Lots of useful data, e.g. click
on ‘Astrophysics’.Under ‘Flight Mission
Information’ click on ‘Listing of Flight
Missions’.Here you will find an alphabetical listing
of satellites with connections to pages containing more
information.(e.g. COBE – launched to study the
cosmic background microwave radiation.)
- European Space Agency
Lots of information and images available. e.g. go to
‘ESA programmes’ and click on ‘Space
Science’.Then click on ‘Exploring Space’
(top centre of page), then ‘Reference Section’
and ‘Science Background’.Try the sections on
‘Seeing the Universe’ using different parts of
the e/m spectrum, or try ‘Black Holes’.
Alternatively, still under ‘Space Science’,
choose a satellite from the list under ‘Science
Missions’ or just browse the ‘Multimedia
Gallery’.
- American Institute
of Physics, Center for History of Physics Click on
‘Moments of Discovery’ (in ‘Exhibit
Hall’ list) and then on ‘A Pulsar
Discovery’.This gives you details of how the optical
source of a pulsar (in the Crab Nebula) was first
identified in1968. It includes tape recordings actually
made at the time of the discovery as well as images of
the Crab Nebula using different types of e/m radiation.
- www.chandra.harvard.edu/
Click on ‘Field Guide’ (under ‘Public
Information and Education’). This has various useful
articles on stellar evolution, white dwarfs, neutron
stars etc
- SpaceDaily.com
- Astronomy
for Kids
- Earth
& Moon Viewer
- SETI Institute
- Star
Journey
- Windows to the
Universe
- The
Aurora Page
- The
Constellations and their Stars
- Astrodome
website with useful links
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solqrsystem/index.shtml
Travel guide to the Solar System. Try the Solar System
jigsaw
- www.solarsystem.org.uk/model.html
Click on Planet 10
- Online
Activities - Observatory section for Universe work
- Spacetech's
Orrery - a very good site particularly good for info
on planets
- http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/-
wonderful site loads of info on astronomy + a lot of
activities -quizzes, labelling worksheets, colouring
pages
- GCSE Space
Revision - GCSE.com site by A P Harmsworth.
- The
Night Sky from Jodrell Bank
- http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/overview.html
- an overview of the solar system
- Hubble
Site Image Gallery
Earth Science
Electricity & Magnetism
Experimental Science
General Reference
General Science
Particle & Nuclear Physics
Presentation & Simulation
Sites
Robots
Technology
Waves & Communications
If you know of any other useful links then please email their
details to me: ktaggart@st-georges-college.co.uk
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