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quantumdude · Mar 7, 2003

That's right, I'm changing it back to it's original name. : p

I have all the links copied into an MS Word document. I'll try to organize them this weekend, then I'll post them all here.

damgo · Mar 16, 2003

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Online preprint server... virtually all the high-energy and relativity papers written nowadays, and many others, show up here. Anyone can download the fulltexts for free. Best thing since sliced bread!

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The Net Advance of Physics. A huge directory to online books, notes, tutorials, and reviews, on a huge range of physics topics. Invaluable.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/
John Baez's website. He is a quantum geometry researcher at UC-Riverside, and has a ton of interesting info and good links. Especially recommended:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/
Physics FAQ
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Good relativity links

Sting · Mar 18, 2003

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Online Textbook for Linear and Abstract Algebra

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More to come!

Hyperreality · Mar 20, 2003

Einstein's famous paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies in English in .pdf format

fis.linux-chile.org/doc/specrel.pdf fis.linux-chile.org/doc/specrel.pdf

P.S. This is not a hyper link so DO NOT include http://www.

Just type the type it in in the address bar

Nebula · Mar 20, 2003

Gravitational Waves

This is a Gravitational Waves Class taught at the California Institute of Technology, January through May of 2002. This course was designed for physics graduate students or advanced undergraduates, and for scientists and engineers who have been working in other fields and are contemplating switching to gravitational-wave research -- experimental, theoretical, or both. The web-based materials include Quicktime videos of the lectures, lists of suggested and supplementary reading, copies
of some of the readings, many exercises, and solutions to all
exercises.

The main site can be found here: http://elmer.tapir.caltech.edu/ph237/

When you click on Week 1 you will need to download the video of the lecture and also open the PDF file of the slides for the lecture at the bottom of the page. Kip will refer to the slides and it is important to have the PDF open as Kip is speaking.

I personally have not had the time to get to far into the lectures but I'm sure some of you will find this interesting and enjoyable. Especially if you are interested in gravitational waves, who better to lecture you than Kip Thorne and a host of other professionals.

sir-pinski · Mar 27, 2003

More links

Here is my contribution to the links, mostly course notes although there are some data books in there as well.

http://www.cem.msu.edu/~cem924sg/Topic07.pdf

http://teacher.pas.rochester.edu/phy122/New_Lecture_Notes/

http://www.plmsc.psu.edu/~www/plmsc416/thermo/notes/index.html

http://www.plmsc.psu.edu/~www/plmsc416/thermo/notes/index.html

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~hmabuchi/tuesday1.pdf

Intro to Computational Physics

Web Elements. Quite a good interactive periodic table.

Handbook of space astronomy and astrophysics

quantumdude · Mar 27, 2003

General Physics Resources

Archives and Libraries:
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Los Alamos arXiv
http://web.mit.edu/~redingtn/www/netadv
physiknetz (German)
Physics Virtual Bookshelf
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PhysicsWeb
UPSCALE
HyperPhysics
http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/physics7.html Library of basic course materials.
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Commisariat a L'Energie Atomique Scripts on theoretical physics. (French)
http://www.spm.cnrs-dir.fr Scripts on theoretical physics. (French)
Library of the Physics Institutes of Bonn University (German)
CERN Document Server
http://www-lib.kek.jp/top-e.html
DESY Preprint Archives
http://www1.physik.tu-muenchen.de/~rwagner/physik/skripten.html Robert Wagner's webpage. (German)
http://hug.phys.huji.ac.il/Phys_Machon/Colloquium/index.htm from the Racah Physics Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Hebrew, some in English)
http://www.lib.washington.edu/physics/ejourn.html From the University of Washington.
UPenn Library Links to online physics books.
http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/bookmarks/b/1240.html From Neural Links Plus by Prof. Mark Dubin of Colorado. Many different sciences.
E-Library of Science From the University of New Mexico. Physics, mathematics, and philosophy.

Textbooks:
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Motion Mountain Physics Text A comprehensive tome that is worth printing out.
http://www.lightandmatter.com/area1.html 6 free textbooks.
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Physics for Free 3 Textbooks by Yale Prof. Frank Firk (one on mechanics thru GR, one on groups and particles, and one on Einstein)

Other:
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http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~poptor/current.html Undergrad level problem sets with solutions. From University of Toronto.
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[URL='https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/author/john-baez/']John Baez’ Stuff[/url]
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http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rmext04/92andwed/pf_quant.html#Top Basic Introduction
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http://dmoz.org/Science/Physics/Education/Tutorials
Phys Link Physics and astronomy.

quantumdude · Mar 27, 2003

Classical Physics

Classical Mechanics (Statics and Dynamics):
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Newton’s Principia It’s not all there, but it is worth looking at.
http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~omen
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http://www.bestofcolumbus.com/Braeunig/space/orbmech.htm From bestofcolumbus dot com.
http://www.go.ednet.ns.ca/~larry/orbits/orbits.html
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/UASEDS/o-mech/orbital_mech.html From SEDS at University of Arizona.
Physics 220 Lecture Notes Mechanics, heat and sound from Perdue University.
Mechanics Links From physics.about.com.

Classical Mechanics (Fluids and Fields):
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International Journal of Fluid Dynamics
Using Computational Fluid Dynamics

Classical Electrodynamics:
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http://www.plasma.uu.se/CED/Book Highly recommended for studying for Qualifying Exams!
Optics 2001 dot com Optics library and message board.
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http://www.pwaves.0catch.com/zag/english.htm
http://www.ebicom.net/~rsf1/crit/1908b.htm
http://www.airynothing.com/jackson/index.html Solutions to selected problems of "The Baddest Book on the Shelf".

Classical Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
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http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/rcfta/thermo.html

quantumdude · Mar 27, 2003

Relativity

Special Relativity:
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http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/~cew2/P209/P209_home.html
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On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies By Einstein, from Fourmilab.
Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content? By Einstein, from Fourmilab.
Special Relativity by David Hogg—nice book.
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http://astsun.astro.virginia.edu/~jh8h/Foundations/quest7.html Answered by Virginia's Astronomy Department.
http://www.ccinet.ab.ca/tcantine/TP.html

General Relativity:
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Lecture Notes on General Relativity From LANL arXiv.
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http://pancake.uchicago.edu/~carroll/notes by Prof. Sean Carroll, Univ. of Chicago.
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http://www.focusresearch.com/texts/sor-latex.phtml By Einstein.
http://aci.mta.ca/Courses/Physics/4701_97/etext.html From Mount Allison University (in progress).

Other:
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http://www.time-direction.de This could have gone either in the Quantum or Relativity section. I flipped a coin, and here we are.
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Living Reviews in Relativity An online journal.

quantumdude · Mar 27, 2003

Quantum Theory

General:
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Warren Siegel’s Homepage Three free textbooks available here, on QFT, SUSY, and String Theory.

Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computing:
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Virtual Journal of Quantum Information Quantum computing, cryptography, and communication.
http://theory.caltech.edu/~quic From Caltech.
www.cs.caltech.edu/~westside/quantum-intro.html[/URL] Also from Caltech.
[url=http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/ph229]Quantum Computing lecture notes[/url] Again, from Caltech.
[url=http://www.qubit.org]Qubit dot org[/url] Centre for Quantum Computation, a collaboration of Oxford and Cambridge theorists.
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[PLAIN]http://www.physics.mq.edu.au/~jcresser/phys301/LectureNotes
http://ocw.mit.edu/5/5.61/f01/index.html Lecture notes from MIT Open Courseware program.
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http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~jones/ap216/lectures/lectures.html Lecture notes from Harvard.
http://edu.ioffe.ru/lib/galperin A nice, thorough online textbook.

Quantum Field Theory:
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http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/users/markh/RQF1 by Univ. of Sussex' Prof. Mark Hindmarsh
http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/users/markh/RQF2 by Univ. of Sussex' Prof. Mark Hindmarsh
http://www.pt.tu-clausthal.de/~aswl/scripts/qft.html by Institut für Physik und Physikalische Technologien's Prof. Wolfgang Lucke (PS only)
http://arturo.fi.infn.it/casalbuoni/lezioni99.pdf by Florence University's Prof. Roberto Casalbuoni
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http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~ruthjl/papers/itft.html
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http://t.home.cern.ch/t/tfeldman/www/lectures_nijmegen.html Also has exercises with solutions.
Bookmarks on QFT, Gauge Field Theory, and String Theories Many, many links.

Quantum General Relativity:
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Quantum Gravity: A Progress Report From LANL arXiv.

quantumdude · Mar 27, 2003

Astronomy and Cosmology

General:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
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http://spaceweb.oulu.fi From Oulu, Finland.
Astronomy Dot Net The name says it all.

Cosmology:
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Cosmological Models From LANL arXiv.

Astrophysics:
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Internal Dynamics of Globular Clusters From LANL arXiv.

Simulators:
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http://www.astronomy.ch/home.html

quantumdude · Mar 27, 2003

Mathematics
If this gets too big, I'll delete it and start a Math Napster in the Math forum.

General:
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Textbooks, Lecture Notes and Tutorials in Mathematics An absolute goldmine!
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SOSMath Undergraduate level materials, plus homework help message board.
http://www.gotmath.com Links to online textbooks and lecture notes, plus other math sites.
MathPages Articles on more advanced topics.

Calculus and Analysis:
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Elementary Calculus
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http://utcsl.phys.utk.edu/~forrest/papers/fourier
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Math Forum Library

Algebra:
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Mathematical Induction 30 problems for you to crack your noodle on.

Differential Equations:
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http://ejde.math.swt.edu

Dynamic Systems:
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http://www.wfu.edu/~petrejh4/chaosind.htm

Vectors, Tensors, and Differential Geometry:
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Free Textbook Tensor Calculus and Continuum Mechanics
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Stefan_Waner/diff_geom/tc.html

Mathematical Physics:
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Mathematical Physics Electronic Journal
Memoirs on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics Subscription required, but older issues are available for free.
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American Institute of Mathematical Sciences Click on "Journals" and go nutty.

Greg Bernhardt · Apr 4, 2003

Cosmology:
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmo_01.htm
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1996/astr123.html
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/astr121.html

Other:
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/

Biophysics:
http://www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys/text.html

High school physics:
http://www.waukesha.k12.wi.us/South/physics1/index.html

Andersen · Apr 4, 2003

Shamelessly:

For "popular science/k-12" level physics:

http://physics.about.com

drag · Apr 18, 2003

An encyclopedia (including physics and math):
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Sting · Apr 19, 2003

http://dmoz.org/Science/Math/Publications/Online_Texts/

Connell's Elements of Linear and Abstract Algebra

kyle_soule · May 11, 2003

Originally posted by Tom
Does anyone know if Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery is online?

http://aegis.ateneo.net/fted/sci10/pdf/LogicOfDiscovery.PDF

I'm not familiar with the text, so I am not sure if this is in full, or for that matter, even what you were talking about. Hope it is.

Lonewolf · May 22, 2003

Miscellaneous math and physics notes (mostly in ps format)

http://www.cam.ac.uk/cambuniv/societies/archim/notes.htm
http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk

Hyperreality · Jul 18, 2003

http://

This is a marvellous site! It has loads of stuff on recent scientific progresses in exploring outer-space.

MathematicalPhysicist · Jul 23, 2003

an ebook about quantum and classical chaos in ps and pdf formats:http://www.nbi.dk/ChaosBook/

jeff · Jul 27, 2003

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara is a major centre for symposiums with lectures given there being posted on it's website for any visitor to listen to or watch by streaming or download.

http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/

MathematicalPhysicist · Aug 11, 2003

journal of cosmology and astroparticle:http://jcap.sissa.it/

Lonewolf · Aug 13, 2003

Wide range of course notes and exercises (some with answers) from the physics depaertment at the Imperial College

http://www.ph.ic.ac.uk/ug/course_materials/index.asp

redruM · Aug 15, 2003

sure,

maths:
A vast collection of resources including past papers, assignments and notes. includes some university maths.
http://www4.tpg.com.au/nanahcub/me2.html

http://mathworld.wolfram.com

maths articles
http://www.dovepresent.com/pages/articles/bernoulli.html

maths resources by topics
http://www.maths.com.au/resources/syllabus/index.html

the "integrator"
http://integrals.wolfram.com/index.en.cgi

physics:

http://webs.mn.catholic.edu.au/physics/emery/physics_hsc.htm

notes on maths and physics
http://www.fatmuscle.cjb.net/

umm that's about it. some of these may be limited to the syllabus.

Hyperreality · Aug 29, 2003

Physics problems website:
http://

Sonty · Aug 31, 2003

I don't know if this has already been posted or not as I haven't been following the thread lately, but I guess it deserves to be posted twice.
MIT is launching the OpenCourseWare program making its course materials free.
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

Lonewolf · Sep 16, 2003

I fear you may not be able to find it online, as the book is still copyrighted. There's a basic outline of the book at http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/Kuhn.html if that's of any use to you.

pmb · Sep 17, 2003

Online lecutures

I see the forum has changed structure. I don't know where the links are for online texts etc. but I know of one the belongs on the list. It's Kip Thorne's and Roger Blanford's new text. See

http://www.pma.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2002/index.html

Thanks

Pete

Fullhawking · Oct 5, 2003

I am collecting information in preparation for construction on a small particle accelerator. In my resent searching I found this book "Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration" http://www.fieldp.com/cpa/cpa.html. It should be helpful for me and hopefully someone else out there.

MathematicalPhysicist · Oct 19, 2003

The Mathmagician and the Pied Puzzler

a free book about recreational maths there is an interesting paradox i haven't resolved yet (im planning to open a thread about it):
http://www.g4g4.com/paul/BOOK.pdf

Hyperreality · Oct 31, 2003

Biophysics link, with a free online textbook.
http://

Greg Bernhardt · Nov 11, 2003

The beginning of a massive reference library!
http://www.physicsresource.com

Hyperreality · Jan 26, 2004

http://
provides basic information on superstring theory

Monique · Mar 12, 2004

If this is somewhere in this thread, I am sorry :O But what/where is the database that collects all publications from physics-related peer-reviewed journals?

In biological sciences we've got the national center for biotechnology information at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ where every single published articles gets archived.

What would be the physics equivalent? Not speaking about Xarchiv, since that is not peer-reviewed, is it?

nbo10 · Mar 26, 2004

I'm not sure if there is a archive, but a couple databases are:
web of science -- http://isiknowledge.com
inspec -- can't get a url, the university sends us through a proxy so I can't see the url.

Both these might be a paid service.

APS has everything indexed for everyone to see, you just need a subscription to view the articles.

JMD

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