Physics

A range of high-quality resources for Physics and Astronomy are available on the web. You may also be interested in the Astronomy Useful Websites guide.

Online courses

• MIT OpenCourseWare: Physics: freely available resources from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

History of physics

• A Century of Physics: Useful resource, including a Timeline of physics, published by the American Physical Society (APS).
• History of Physics: Great set of free weblinks curated by MIT.
• Moments of discovery: Tells the history of three major breakthroughs, amongst them nuclear fission.

Classical mechanics

• Online edition of Kaye and Laby's: tables of physical and chemical constants.
• NIST Physical Reference Data: Physical data made available by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Particle/Nuclear

• Data Analysis Centre: Gives access to SAID, the Virginia Tech - George Washington University Partial Wave Analysis Facility.
• Online Particle Physics Information: Guide to particle physics resources, maintained by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and the Particle Data Group.

Fluid Mechanics

• eFluids: Offers galleries of images, tutorials and more.
• Flow Visualisation: Large gallery of fluid flow images.
• Pressure and Pascal's principle: Sal Khan's video series about fluid mechanics provided by Khan's Academy.

Quantum Mechanics

• The Feynman Lectures on Physics Website: Includes material, including exercises, to supplement the lecture series.
• Three lectures by Hans Bethe: The Nobel Prize winner gives lectures for his fellow retirees. Interesting introduction to quantum physics.
• Quantum Mechanic Books: A collection of freely available books which covers the quantum mechanic area.

Relativistic Mechanics

• Einstein Archives: Online access to Albert Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives.
• Einstein Light: Placing Einstein into a bigger historical context.
• Elementary Einstein: Comprehensive overview of relativistic mechanics.
• The general relativity tutorial: Resource created by John Baez from the University of Washington presenting the theory of gravity with the aim to explain Einstein's relativity equation.
• Space time travel - relativity visualized: Includes a wealth of videos, images and other interactive material.

Physics Information portals/gateways

• Explore Physics: Interactive guide to physics on the web.
• PhysNet: Links to worldwide physics departments and documents.