Sometimes I will have you refer to these before or after a class discussion or for a Packet Reading. Go to the individual pages in this menu for the different catagories
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Added 10/5/14: Tip of the hat to Ashlynn for finding this one: Cool pendulum demo.
Added 3/31/14: Einsteins Equivalence Principle and Curvature of Space (Tensors!)
Added 3/29/14: The Vortex is dead! (Phil Plait)
Added 2/24/14: A look into the far future
Added 12/9/13: Quarks to Quasars (Dark Energy)
Added 11/25/13: Calculus Better Explained
Added 10/19/13: If you are into the SAT and the ACT, you ought to read this NYT article.
Added 9/12/13: It’s official: Voyager has left the Solar System
Added 9/12/13: First mechanical gear found in a live creature
Added 9/12/13: Tip of the hat to Braden Heeney for sending me this on Phone Blocks . . . great idea. Too bad Apple and Samsung will sue the begeevers out of them for trumped up patent infringement charges.
Added 9/12/13: Since there seems to be a controversy brewing about the difference between units and dimensions, this website should help.
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Added 9/9/13: Tip of the hat to Jerry for finding this one: 19-year-old devises plan to rid the world’s oceans of million tons of plastic
Added 8/22/13: Five Beloved Scientist who were also Bullies.
Added 8/13/13: The Untold Story of Google’s Quest to Bring the Internet Everywhere—By Balloon
Added 8/13/13: Take great courses from the world’s best universities
Added 8/13/13: The Periodic Table of Videos
Added 7/3/13: Why doesn’t Dark matter have any effect on our solar system?
Added 7/3/13: The Hammer-Ruler Trick
Added 7/2/13: fizzics! This one is a gold mine.
Added 7/1/13: Beyond Google Glass
Added 6/30/13: Academic Earth (Rethinking Education)
Added 6/30/13: Good for homework questions, but a little pricey after the trial period.
Added 6/30/13: New Boston (45 Physics help videos) and lots of other cool stuff.
Added 6/30/13: Study Blue (making flash cards and such)
Added 6/30/13: Start your MIT course work tonight!
Added 6/30/13: Yale’s entire Physics course — Free
Added 6/30/13: Thinking Allowed
Added 6/30/13: TED talks rated
Added 6/30/13: TED
Added 6/30/13: Website: Wolfram Alpha
Added 6/30/13: Great Courses from the World’s Best Universities
Added 6/28/13: Tallest, fastest looping roller coaster
Added 6/27/13: NASA’s Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our ‘Solar Bubble’
Added 6/27/13: Inside The Most Expensive Science Experiment Ever
Added 6/27/13: At Chernobyl, Radioactive Danger Lurks in the Trees
Added 6/26/13: Big Think (great website for big thinkers)
Added 6/20/13: www.edge.org (“the world’s smartest website”)
Added 6/17/13: Kilometer high Skyscrapers
Added 6/2/13: History of Climate Change
Added 5/13/13 Earth’s core is speeding up.
Added 4/7/13: In the top 5 coolest currently living
Added 4/6/13: 1940’s version of life on other planets
Added 3/29/13: This one just makes me happy
Added 3/23/13: The 10 most important #s in history.
Added 3/17/13: DO THIS!!
Added 3/17/13: The Nuclear Option
Added 3/16/13: E = mc^2 is wrong
Added 3/11/13: Standing Waves
Added 3/10/13: Einstein’s notebook
Added 3/8/13: Pendulum waves
Added 2/17/13: Mosh Pit Physics
Added 2/9/13: First World Problems
Added 2/9/13: Einstein’s Last Mystery
Added 2/8/13: Well, it was nice knowing you . . .
Added 2/8/13: Formula One Racing abuse of air
Added 2/7/13: A great one minute source of excellent science links
Added 1/28/13: We are becoming Cyborgs
Added 12/27/12: 50 years of Nasa Missions
Added 12/19/12: The Large Hadron Collider
Added 12/16/12: Higgs field and LHC explained in a cool way
Added 12/18/12: Milky Way and Andromeda will collide in just 4 billion years
Added 12/15/12: A good reference site for our expanding universe discussion:
Added 12/15/12: Good Doppler effect website.
Added 11/18/12: Udacity — The future of online courses?
Added 10/23: Top ten Dragster Crashes (From the Kinematics in Drag Worksheet).
10/7/12: NASA: The Perpetual Ocean
9/28/12: A Capella Science – Rolling in the Higgs (Adele Parody)
9/16/12: Look below for the videos for Packet 1:
8/12/12: Click here for: A good site to look at NOW if you are going to college.
7/3/12: Click here for: The Higgs described after today’s big announcement.
7/1/12: Click here for: The Mechanical Universe Series
7/1/12: Click here for: The Physics Classroom (an excellent tutorial)
6/30/12: Click here for: Global Warming debate laid out
6/26/12: Click here for: Slinky in detailed Free Fall.
4/8/12: Click here for: Minute Physics
2/10/12: Click here for: a cool interactive space site
2/8/12: Click here for: “Knittin” Needle on the ISS
12/16/11: Click here for: The earth breathes or . . . watch the world burn:
12/14/11: Click here for: Voyager videos
12/12/11: Click here for: Curiosity landing on Mars in August 2012
