Useful links
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| The Institute of Physics | Professional physicist resource with links to education |
| Advancing Physics Web site | The A level course home web site. An excellent resource with sample questions, extra chapter information and useful downloads. |
| The Association for Science Education | A useful resource for science teachers. |
| The Department for Education and Skills | Official government department where National Curriculum guidelines, schemes of work etc. can be accessed. |
| OCR Examination Board | A-Level and GCSE specifications, sample questions, coursework guidelines can be downloaded. |
| Contemporary Physics Education | A good resource for teaching modern physics. |
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat Reader | Download and install to read pdf files |
| Mozilla Firefox | An excellent web browser particularly suited to CSS with plug-ins, web developers tools etc. |
| Winzip | Ubiquitous file compression program. |
| Sun / Oracle | Download the latest version of Java |
| Textpad | An excellent text editing program for HTML or Java. |
| CSE HTML Validator | Another very good text editing program. |
| Gnuplot Home | An open source graphics program. |
| Datapoint | Free Video Frame-Grabbing and Video Motion Analysis Software. |
| Windirstat | Useful free utility to display file sizes in different directories. |
| Virtualdub | An excellent free video editor for avi files. |
| Google Earth | An excellent and free imaging program using satellite images of the Earth. Broadband and a good graphics card are essential. |
| Worldwind | Another excellent and free imaging program from NASA, using satellite images of the Earth. In many ways superior to Google Earth giving excellent 3d views plus many plug-ins. A BIG download. Broadband and a good graphics card are essential. |
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| Davidson applets | A directory of physics applets |
| PHET simulations | University of Colorado science simulations |
| Surendranath applets | Nice physics applets |
| Space applets | A selection of good physics applets comparing Ptolemy, Copernicus models. |
| Falstad applets | Excellent maths / physics applets |
| Worldmaker | A very nice modelling program where a set of programmed rules, each with a fixed chance of being implemented, can be can be used to investigate a model world. Used in the Advancing Physics course |
| Modellus | An excellent modelling program extensively used in the Advancing Physics course |
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| Edwin Taylor | Many excellent articles on quantum theory. |
| Feynman lectures | The late Richard Feynman gives a series of four lectures on QED. Broadband needed. |
| CERN | Many particle physics links and tutorials. |
| The Particle Adventure | Particle physics tutorial. |
| Hyperphysics | An attempt to show the links and connections in physics. |
| Solar and Heliospheric Observatory | View the latest images from SOHO ! |
| Physics 2000 | A series of physics tutorials, java applets are extensively used. |
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| Understanding Electricity | 'Understanding electricity, what the text books don't show you.' Sefton |
| Surface Charge | The role of surface charge in electrical circuits - Sherwood, Charbay |
| Understanding Energy | Common misconceptions when teaching energy - Sefton |
| Newton's Laws from quantum mechanics | The derivation of Newton's Laws from quantum theory - Ogborn and Taylor |
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| Picoscope | Pico manufacture computer oscilloscopes. Download the latest drivers. |