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
- American Physical Society (APS): Scroll down to the 'History of Physics' links.
- 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
- NIST Physical Reference Data: Physical data made available by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology.
- Physclips: Video resource created by University of New South Wales around various topics.
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.