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December 2022
Effects with very strong neodymium magnets YouTube video
Magnets repelling and attracting YouTube video
How we represent magnetic fields Khan Academy website
Defining the tesla Electronics tutorials website
Delivering the 110 tonne module to ITER YouTube video
Earth's magnetic and geographic poles Hyperphysics website
Convection currents and Earth's magnetic field Cosmos magazine website
Reversal of Earth's magnetic field Arbor Scientific YouTube video
Earth's magnetosphere NASA website
Magnetic fields of Solar System planets 'Ask a Spaceman' YouTube video
Magnetic moments of atoms Veritasium YouTube video
Ferromagnetic alloys and crystals Sciencing article
Magnetic domains Magnet Academy article
'Hard' and 'soft' magnetic materials Britannica article
Ferrimagnetism Wikipedia article
Paramagnetism and diamagnetism YouTube video
Rare earth magnets Master Magnetics website
October 2022
Real time simulation of Solar System NASA website
Explanation of asteroids YouTube video
Jupiters and other moons NASA website
Oblate spheroid produced by gravity YouTube video
Centripetal force Khan Academy YouTube video
Sputnik: Earths first artificial satellite History website
Satellites now orbiting Earth Pixalytics website
Calculating satelite orbital period YouTube video
Satellites for TV YouTube video
Low Earth Orbits (LEOs) TechTarget website
Galileo satellite network YouTube video
Satellites in polar and other orbits ESA website
Satellite launches planned for 2023 Wikipedia article
Careers in the space sector Space Careers website
September 2022
Definitions and examples Warren School website
Hooke's law Lumen website
Force-extension graphs Free exam academy website
Calculations for springs in series and parallel YouTube video
Stess-strain graphs for chocolate YouTube video
Ultimate breaking stress Engineering archive website
Strength The Engineer website
Hardness Gem Society website
Defiing and measuring hardness National Physical Laboratory website
Materials vocabulary website
February 2022: Quantum Concepts
15 Things everyone should know Bernard Marr website
Quantum computing introduction Wired video
Wave model of light Physics Online YouTube video
Oscillations in electric and magnetic fields Hyperphysics website
Emission and absorption spectra University of Rochester NY website
Photon emission and absorption Khan Academy video
Electron diffraction National STEM Centre YouTube video
de Broglie wavelength Lumen Learning website
Double slit experiment with atoms Jim Al-Khalili YouTube video
Probability waves Weber University USA website
The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics Wondrium website
Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment London City Girl YouTube video
Quantum entanglement Wired magazine article
What is a qubit? Quantum Inspire website
Google claims quantum supremacy Google blog
IBM disputes Google's claim IBM blog
Google to build quantum computer by 2029 The Verge article
More from Google Google quantum AI lab
Cooling quantum computers Data Centre Dynamics website
Quantum cryptography Quantumxchange website
Progress and looking ahead Physics World website
November 2021: Action on climate change
UNFCCC Climate Intelligence Unit website
Evidence for climate change NASA website
Countering arguments against climate change GRIST website
Report on fossil fuel use Carbon Brief website
UK's greenest year on record National Grid website
Comparison of greenhouse gas emissions World Nuclear Association website
Carbon capture and storage How Stuff Works website
UK wind turbine farms Sky News website
Switching to green energy: wind The Switch website
Green energy: solar and other renewables The Switch website
Review of electric cars Auto Express website
Minerals needed by electric car industry Carbon Brief website
New jobs in clean energy Forbes website
Making the green recovery work OECD website
Carbon footprint calculator Carbon Independent website
September 2021: Capacitors
Smaller capacitors Electronic Design website
How capacitors work YouTube video
Basics of capacitors and capacitance Khan Academy video
C is for capacitor Circuit Playground website
Electronic projects Sparkfun website
Capacitor equations Electronics tutorials website
Capacitor structure and uses Radio Spares (RS) website
Capacitors in parallel and in series Lumen Learning website
Capacitors in parallel and series: charge and energy YouTube video
Time constant and exponential decay Cyberphysics website
Making a simple timer Arrow.com website
Capacitors as frequency filters Learning about Electronics website
Flash lamps Wikipedia entry
Implantable defibrillator British Heart Foundation website
Supercapacitor Graphene-info website
April 2021: What is so special about diamonds?
The rare diamond BBC website
More information about the diamond Courthouse News Service website
The Victor diamond mine De Beers website
Allotropes of carbon Lumen Learning website
Diamond formation processes Geology.com website
Refractive index data US Faceters Guild website
Reflection and refraction at an interface Mammoth Memory physics website
Revise total internal reflection and critical angle Lumen Learning website
Types of diamond cut United Diamonds website
Diamond cutting YouTube video
The Mohs hardness scale Gem Society website
Diamond drills Drilltec website
Uses of diamonds AZoM Materials Science website
Diamond devices Nanowerk website
Using CVD to make gemstones Brilliant Earth website
Diamond trade regulation Assay Office website
February 2021: Space telescopes
JWST home page NASA website
Looking back in time West Texas A&M University website
Solar System evolution Lunar and Planetary Institute website
HST home page NASA website
HST favourite images Space.com website
Comparing JWST and HST NASA website
The Apollo project NASA website
Edwin Hubble YouTube video
Why space telescopes? Scientific American article
Chandra X-ray Observatory NASA website
Spitzer Space Telescope NASA website
Spitzer shutdown Spaceflight Now website
November 2020: Electromagnetic radiation
Crab Nebula gamma rays Physics.org website
ELF radio waves Wikipedia page
EM spectrum: largest to smallest wavelength NASA website
EM spectrum: smallest to largest wavelength NASA website
Colours of light Science Learning Hub website
Seeing in colour Live Science website
Rods and cones Arizona State University website
Infrared radiation Live Science website
Endoscopes Genesis medical physics website
Ultraviolet radiation NASA website
Fluorescence ACS YouTube video
Uses and dangers of UV radiation Andy Darvill website
Electromagnetic waves YouTube video
Polarisation YouTube video
Radio waves carrying information How Stuff Works website
Microwaves Andy Darvill website
Microwave ovens How Stuff Works website
Early X-ray images NDE resource centre website
Computed tomography Mayo Clinic website
Non-medical uses of X-rays YouTube video
Gamma radiation ARPNSA website
Uses of radioisotopes World Nuclear Association website
Background radiation and safety Legal Futures website
UV radiation risks and benefits WHO website
UV radiation safety NHS website
Cancer risks Cancer Research UK website
September 2020: Trains for the twenty-first century
Carbon dioxide emissions BBC website
Shanghai Maglev train journey YouTube video
How Maglev works How Stuff Works website
Japan's train of the future Japan transportation website
The world's fastest trains YouTube video
New high-speed rail lines YouTube video
UK plans for HS2 BBC website
UK plans for rail upgrading Network Rail website
Tunnelling for the Elizabeth Line Crossrail website
Updates on the Crossrail project Crossrail website
10 best city rail networks Guardian website
Plans to modernise the London Underground YouTube video
Shanghai and Beijing metro systems Shanghai News website
Virgin Hyperloop One system B1M YouTube video
April 2020: Applying Newton's law of gravitation
The Paralympic Games
The 2020 Paralympic Games Tokyo Olympics website
History of the Paralympic Games International Paralympic Committee website
Summer and winter paralympic sports Topend Sports website
Overview of paralympic technology Ingenia: Royal Academy of Engineering magazine
Problems faced by underfunded paralympians New York Times article
Some designs for sport-adapted wheelchairs RMA Sport UK website
Choosing a sport and wheelchair Wheelpower website
Carbon reinforced polymers ThoughtCo Reference website
Cycle events at the Tokyo Paralympics Tokyo Olympics website
The Tokyo para-cycling course International Paralympic Committee website
Inventions that have supported para-sport Cisco Technology Company website
Adaptive sports technologies Mental Floss article
Materials science degree courses UCAS website
Manchester Materials Science and Engineering Manchester University website
Materials within Cambridge Natural Sciences Cambridge University website
Oxford Materials Science and Engineering Oxford University website
Swansea Materials Science and Engineering Swansea University website
Loughborough University Sports Technology Loughborough University website
Changes in Paralympic Games over 30 years YouTube video
November 2019: Radioactivity
Radioactivity
Discovery of radioactivity Royal Society of Chemistry article
Nuclear equations for alpha, beta, gamma decay Khan Academy YouTube video
Information on neutrinos Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory website
Annihilation and gamma production calculation Radiopaedia website
Electron capture Jefferson Lab glossary
Neutron emission French National Centre for Nuclear Research website (in English)
Nuclear stability graph Wikipedia page
Effects of ionising radiation on living things International Atomic Energy Authority website
Natural nuclear reactor YouTube video
Irradiation and contamination Canadian TeachNuclear website
Summary of background radiation 'Pass my exams' website
Map of radon in England and Wales Public Health England website
Chernobyl and Fukusmima accidents Article from 'The Conversation'
Half life and random decay Khan Academy video
Exponential decay graph Khan Academy video
Nuclear reactor How Stuff Works
Radioactive dating World Nuclear Information site
Medical uses of radioisotopes World Nuclear Information site
Maintaining supply of isotopes Nuclear Energy Agency YouTube video
Radiation quiz How Stuff Works
April 2019: Medical imaging
Overview of techniques Siemens website
Imaging: diagrams and physics Radiology Cafe website
MRI introduction YouTube video
More on MRI How Stuff Works website
Ultrasound scan YouTube video
Eleanor Stride explains use of microbubbles YouTube video
Chris Harvey describes image enhancement with microbubbles USA National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Biomedical Engineering site l
Tracers, SPECT and PET scanning USA National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Biomedical Engineering site
Tracers used in medical imaging Slide Share website
PET and tracers YouTube video
More on PET and tracers YouTube video
Computed tomography USA National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Biomedical Engineering site
April 2019: The race to the Moon: 50 years on
NASA Article 'one giant leap for mankind NASA website
Sputnik facts Space.com 'fun facts' website
The Lovell Telescope Jodrell Bank website
1958 USA government report Archive
Formation of NASA NASA website
Interview with Gagarin YouTube video
First US manned spaceflight NASA website
John F Kennedy's 'Moon speech' NASA website
Timeline of NASA launches and tests NASA website
First woman in space NASA website
Gemini 8 docking in orbit NASA website
Reconstruction of Gemini 8 docking IMDb website
Footage from first unmanned Moon landings YouTube video
Apollo redesign YouTube video
Saturn 5 rocket launch YouTube video
NASA footage of Apollo 11 launch YouTube video
Footage from the Eagle lunar module YouTube video
Armstrong's first steps on the Moon YouTube video
NASA restored footage NASA website
February 2019: The Periodic Table
Why have an International Year of the Periodic Table? IUPAC website
Interactive Periodic Table Royal Society of Chemistry website
Element podcasts The Naked Scientists website
Dmitri Mendeleev Khan Academy article
Timeline of discoveries relating to the Periodic Table Timeline website
Properties of the halogens (Flourine Group) YouTube video
Atomic number: Moseley's experiments YouTube video
Electron configuration: GCSE BBC Bitesize website
Electron configuration: A-level Chemistry Revision Science website
Silicon and silicon wafers YouTube video
Semiconductors Hyperphysics website
Names and symbols of recently discovered elements IUPAC website
Tom Lehrer's 'Elements' song YouTube video
Tom Leher's song updated YouTube video
November 2018: The new Elizabethan age
Opening the M1 NX Group website
Spaghetti Junction ITV News website
Suspension bridges 'How products are made' website
Heathrow Terminal 5 Rogers Stirk Harbours (architects) website
The Thames barrier UK Government website
Sizewell B power station EDF energy company website
Construction of The Shard YouTube video
Opening the BT Tower BT website
The Sage Gateshead Gateshead Chronicle website
The Principality stadium Company website
The Eden Project Company website
The Birmingham Rotunda Birmingham Mail website
Clyde 'Armadillo' Auditorium Company website
Plastic waste BBC News website
September 2018: Electricity supply
First public supply 1881 Godalming Museum website
Worldwide access to electricity World Bank website
Worldwide life expectancy World Bank website
Worldwide power consumption World Bank website
Impact of power blackouts USA National Center for Biotechnology Information
Digest of UK Energy Statistics with sections on plant capacity and generation UK Government website
Renewable supplies in 2017 Guardian newspaper website
Power generation now Gridwatch website
Elon Musk discusses climate change YouTube video
Drax power station Power-Technology website
Combined gas turbine power station GE Power website
Fracking Economist magazine website
UK nuclear power and future plans World Nuclear Association website
Sizewell B EDF website
Effects of nuclear accidents NASA website
The Chernobyl accident Radioactivity presentation
Feed-in tariffs explained Energy Saving Trust website
Landmead solar farm YouTube video
Whitelee onshore wind farm Scottish Power website
London Array offshore wind farm London Array website
Swansea tidal lagoon Swansea lagoon website
April 2018: Revision
Revision tips from students Which? University website
Tips for scoring A* YouTube video
Topic summaries and videos Revision World website
AQA past papers, examiner reports AQA website
Edexcel past papers, examiner reports Edexcel website
OCR Specification A past papers, examiner reports OCR website
OCR Specification B past papers, examiner reports OCR website
WJEC examiner reports WJEC website
Past papers Physics & Maths Tutor website
Preparing for questions on practical work YouTube video
Tackling synoptic questions YouTube video
Notes and PowerPoints on physics topics PhysicsTutor Online website
Quiz on quantities and units YouTube video
November 2017: Lenses: the eye and the camera
Museum of vision American Academy of Ophthalmology website
Lens diagrams for converging lenses Physics Classroom
Lens diagrams for diverging lenses Physics Classroom
Optical bench interactive Physics classroom
Using the thin lens formula Khan Academy YouTube video
Long and short sight YouTube video
Correcting long and short sight: explanation with diagrams YouTube video
Eye health, vision defects, contact lenses, laser eye surgery 'All about vision' website
Optometry careers College of Optometrists
Introduction to film and digital cameras Panasonic website
Explanation of CCD Wikipedia
Digital images Cornell University website
Using a digital single lens reflex camera YouTube video
Comparing the eye and the camera Tutorial
September 2017: Practical Skills
Practical techniques required for A-level physics Department for Education website
Measuring volume by displacement YouTube video
Avoiding errors in measurement Cabinet makers' website
Walter Lewin lecture: period of SHM YouTube video
Using a digital multimeter YouTube video
Using light gates for average velocity YouTube video
Using light gates for velocity and acceleration YouTube video
Reading a Vernier scale YouTube video
Using Vernier callipers and micrometer YouTube video
Investigating water waves with a ripple tank YouTube video
Using an oscilloscope to measure voltage and frequency YouTube video
Laser interference experiment YouTube video
Using a Geiger counter YouTube video
April 2017: The Atomic Nucleus
Simulation of alpha scattering National High Magnetic Field Laborator, USA: Java applet
Modelling and experimental results Rutherford's 1911 paper
X-ray frequency and atomic number Results from Moseley's experiments
Artificially induced nuclear transformation Experiments carried out by Rutherford's group
Discovery of the neutron PhysicsLAB description of Chadwick's experiment
Rutherford's and Chadwick's scattering experiments YouTube video
Neutrons and nuclear stability Nuclear power web page
Lego Binding Blocks project University of York
Lego Binding Blocks and binding energy per nucleon University of York
Binding energy per nucleon Schoolphysics website
Quarks and nucleons YouTube video
February 2017: developing theories
Climate change consensus NASA website
A 'scientific method' University of California, Riverside: overview of how theories might be developed and modified
Hypothesis Definition and discussion
Wegener's theory University of California at Berkeley: an account of Wegener's ideas about continental drift and the theory of plate tectonics
Argument from ignorance Wikipedia page
Precession of the perihelion of Mercury University of California, Riverside
The 1919 solar eclipse expedition Wired.com online magazine page
Binary pulsars Georgia State University: hyperphysics page
Language for measurement Institute of Physics practicalphysics.org website
Cold fusion Wikipedia page
Nature Webpage of the scientific journal Nature
Nature peer review Peer review webpage of the scientific journal Nature
Thomas Kuhn Wikipedia page
November 2016: Forces and Fields
Faraday, Maxwell, Thomson USA National high magnetic field laboratory website
Tour of the word's strongest magnet USA National high magnetic field laboratory website
Ferrofluid and magnetised objects YouTube video
Magnetic field configurations Image gallery
Sun's magnetic field NASA video
Water molecules in electric field YouTube video
Polarisation of dielectric in capacitor YouTube video
Demonstration of electric field lines CLEAPSS video
Two point charges between parallel plates YouTube video
Two electrodes with positive charge Photograph
10 ways to 'see' an electric field YouTube video
Faraday cage demonstration YouTube video
Gravitational force between planet and moon Interactive
Variations in Earth's gravitational field NASA image
September 2016: Music and Sound
Schlieren flow visualisation YouTube video
Standing waves in open tubes YouTube Khan Academy video
Standing waves in closed tubes YouTube Khan Academy video
Flute, clarinet and oboe YouTube video
Standing waves on a string YouTube video
Strobe: standing wave on a string YouTube video
Violin, flute, cello, Chinese clarinet, saxophone and percussion YouTube Walter Lewin lecture
Violin, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone; helium YouTube Walter Lewin lecture
Ear animation YouTube video
Decibel scale and logs YouTube Khan Academy video
Hearing loss Government information website
Hearing test YouTube video
Sound physics experiments Chrome music lab
April 2016: Looking ahead
Mars in 2020 NASA website
Previous Mars missions NASA website
Kepler 452b NASA website about a possible Earth-like exoplanet
What is dark energy? Hubble telescope website
Pentaquark CERN announces a new class of particles
Future accelerators International Committee for Future Accelerators website
Better power supplies Pocket-lint website
Constructing the ITER fusion experiment Time-lapse video
HS1 high speed rail link Crossrail website
New Queensferry Crossing Forth bridge website
HS2 high speed rail link Government website
New Thames Hub design rejected Architects' website
Terahertz imaging Article on new applications
February 2016: Video and audio explanations
100 Second Science - Short videos answering scientific questions
What is dark matter? - 100 second video about dark matter
What is antimatter? - 100 second video about antimatter
Young's double slit experiment - YouTube video
Microwave polarization - YouTube video
Electromagnetic induction - YouTube video
Motors and Generators - YouTube video
November 2015: The Hubble space telescope
Hubble - Hubble's anniversary website
Space Shuttle Discovery - Museum webpage
Biography of Hubble - Space.com article
Red Shift and the Big Bang - YouTube video
Hubble's first photo - Time.com article
25 Years of Hubble - YouTube video
How the Hubble Telescope works - HowStuffWorks.com article
Americaspace - Article on the repair of the Hubble telescope
Final Hubble repair mission - YouTube video
Hubble homepage (USA) - Official homepage
Hubble homepage (Europe) - Official homepage
Flight through a star cluster - YouTube video
September 2015: Silver
Uses of silver - Online article
The many uses of Silver - Geology.com article
Silver's chemical properties - Element's chemical data
How do photovoltaics work? - NASA article
Making a glove work with a touch screen - Video and tutorial
Film processing - Informative webpage
Silver as an anti-bacterial - Informative webpage
Water purification - Magazine article
Silver in Australia - Informative webpage
April 2015: Orders of magnitude
Scales of the Universe - Interactive widget
Standard form - Informative website
Orders of Magnitude - Informative website
"Powers of Ten" - Youtube video
"Powers of Ten - Ultimate Zoom" - YouTube video
Fermi's Piano Tuner Problem - Physics problem
The Oil Drop Experiment - How to estimate the size of an atom
A Collection of Estimation Questions - Informative Webpage
Links in Recent Articles
December 2022
Who are they? Andrea Ghez
Nobel Prize lecture YouTube video
Back cover: laser supernova
The ASCEL experiments YouTube video
September 2022
Phosphine on Venus
Physics Review Update article Hodder Education website
Who are they? Lucie Green
A journey to the centre of the Sun YouTube video
The Sound of Starlight
Modes on a string PlusMaths animation
Chladni’s plate YouTube video
The science of stellar sound waves NASA website
Sounds from stars (all Asteroseismology websites)
xi Hydra
GD 358
BPM 37093
An artistic composition of stellar sounds NASA website
April 2022
Stellar nurseries
The basics of star formation BBC Bitesize
More on molecular clouds Swinburne University of Technology
A news article announcing the PHANGS survey findings NRAO website
More on ALMA and radio observing ALMA observatory website
Back cover: Looking at molecules
Real-time movie of C60 molecules YouTube video
February 2022
Gyroscopes explained
Gyroscope behaviour YouTube video
Anti-gravity wheel demonstration YouTube video
Anti-gravity wheel explanation YouTube video
At a Glance: Approaching Zero
Lego Cryonauts YouTube video
Who are they: Steven Chu
Steven Chu on sustainability and climate change YouTube video
Steven Chu on a zero-carbon future YouTube video
Crossword Notes: Marine matters, metals and measurement
The tin scream YouTube videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh8yWyuoL2A
Waves arriving on Hawaiian beaches YouTube videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IjIpGP_jsw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmJCIfjaam4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arVQVeuWv3A
Back cover: Printed bridge
MX3D bridge installation YouTube video
November 2021
Dating with carbon-14
Brian Cox builds a cloud chamber YouTube video
Who are they: Lene Hau 1959-
Stopping a light pulse Radiolab podcast
Lene Hau explains her experiments YouTube videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57s60mlapCc.
Crossword Notes: the way the wind blows
Explanation of the Coriolis effect YouTube video
September 2021
Imaging a black hole
European Southern Observatory ESO website
Science magazine Science website
Who were they: Subrahhamyan Chandrasekhar 1910-95
Contributions to black hole theory Open University website
Explaining the green flash
Photographing a green flash Sixty Symbols YouTube video
At a glance: glass
Video tour of float glass manufacture Liverpool Echo website
Mathskit: units
SI Units brochure BIPM website
April 2021
Waves inside the Earth
Animations of seismic waves British Geological Survey website
News of Martian seismology NASA website
Back page: atmospheric waves
Animation of large-scale atmospheric waves University of Hawaii website
February 2021
Splitting the nucleus
Einstein on film American Institute of Physics website
Skillset: determining the wavelength of light
Video of experiment YouTube video
At a glance: high-energy colliders
Virtual tour of LHC CERN website
Pointing a space telescope
Orientation of HST YouTube video
November 2020
Vapour trails and climate change
Research paper on contrails Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics website
Natural convection
Solar pond Energy Education website
September 2020
Structural colour
Morphotex images and information Donna Sgro's homepage
X-ray computed tomography: reading the unreadable
Unrapping the scroll YouTube video
A report of the work Science Advances journal website
Skillset: standing waves on a string
Video of the experiment YouTube video
April 2020
Determining Jupiter's mass
The Sky and Telescope interactive observing tool Sky and Telescope website
Measuring gravity's effect on time
The inside story of the launch Inside GNSS website
Video of the time dilation experiment YouTube video
Who were they? Niels Bohr
The Niels Bohr Institute University of Copenhagen website
Bohr's life and work Wikipedia article
Bohr's Nobel Prize Nobel Organisation website
Back cover: Moons
Timelapse images of Saturn's moons National Geographic website
November 2019
Rutherford's nuclear atom revisited
Quotes from Rutherford and other scientists AZQuotes website
Crossword notes: Stability, sliding and stars
Controlling tsetse flies World Health Organisation website
John Goodricke's work Yorkshire Philosophical Society website
Back cover: Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo's inventions YouTube video
September 2019
Electric vehicles
Local availability of charging points Zap-map website
Building the pyramids
Building the Pyramids of Egypt ...a detailed step by step guide YouTube video,
At a Glance: mapping Earth's gravity
Animated image of gravitational field map Wikipedia page
Brownian motion revisited
Discussion of ideas about gases BBC In Our Time podcast
Who were they? Glenn T Seaborg
More on Seaborg and his work Royal Society of Chemistry website
Seaborg and the Nobel Prize Nobel Foundation website
Crossword notes: Naming elements
How a new element gets its name Chemistry World article
April 2019
Viking navigation
A short video on birefringence Website of the sixty symbols project
Skillset: measuring the lLanck constant
Data from OCR for analysis OCR website
Who are they: Donna Strickland
News report from The Record Record website
News report from The Guardian Guardian website
Profile University of Waterloo website
Poster featuring Donna Strickland Perimeter Institute website
Crossword: Light and heat
Constellation myths and history Website of astronomer Ian Ridpath
Back page: Cherenkov radiation
Animation of Cherenkov radiation Wikipedia page
Geomagnetic surveys, aurorae etc British Geological Survey website
February 2019
Where is the North Pole?
Geomagnetic surveys, aurorae etc British Geological Survey website
Will electric cars break the National Grid?
Sustainable energy without the hot air Free download of book by D J C MacKay
The Dinorwig pumped storage system Company website
Who were they: Arthur Stanley Eddington
Biography Wikipedia article
Biography University of St Andrews website
Eddington number Triathlete website
Eddington village NW Cambridge development company website
Skillset: magnetic force on a current-carrying wire
The experimental arrangement and other examples YouTube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dvYfuFtTzU
November 2018
Bouncing bombs: the physics behind the Dambusters raid
Dambusters: The Race to Smash the German Dams YouTube video
Skillset: oscillations
SHM with a spring and a pendulum Northumbria University video
Who were they: Hedy Lamarr
Biography Electronic Notes website
Summary biography Famous Women Inventors website
Spread Spectrum techniques Wikipedia article
Biography Wikipedia article
Biography Smithsonian website
Luis Alvarez: a versatile physicist
The Bevatron Photo essay - collection of images
The end of the Bevatron 'Wired' news website
Dinosaur extinction BBC news website
September 2018
The swinging ponytail
Keller's Ig Nobel prize paper Journal website
Working with physics: helicopter pilot
Information about Navy careers Royal Navy website
The Navy's AIB Royal Navy website
Back cover: Tycho's supernova
Expanding supernova remnant Harvard-Smithsonian website
April 2018
Better housing for refugees
The housing project described in the article Video
Operative temperature Wikipedia article
A painless bite
Development of a biodegradable micro lancet needle Research report
Biocompatible microneedles New Scientist article
November 2017
Forecasting space weather
Space Weather Scale for Geomagnetic storms Met Office website
Sign up for Aurora alerts with Aurorawatch University of Lancaster
Space Weather Prediction Centre NOAA
Animal Electricity
Time's arrow
Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics YouTube videos
September 2017
How to make a BB-8
Patent for BB-8 Google Patents website
At a Glance: Radio
E and B fields of an electromagnetic wave Animation
Wave produced by an alternating pd Animation
Working with Physics: Medical Physicist
Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine IPEM Website
Training programme with the NHS NHS Websites
https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk
http://www.nshcs.hee.nhs.uk/join-a-programme
Crossword Mystery and Magic: solution and notes
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Caltech website
Disney's Haunted Magic Ballroom YouTube video
April 2017
Postcard from Proxima
Measuring the shift in wavelength of absorption lines
Read and contribute ideas for space exploration The Breakthrough website
Skillset: datalogging
Tracker Information and downloads from the developer
Pasco SPARKvue Manufacturer's website
Exploratory Sciencescope More about the Internet of (school) Things
Mathskit: What's in a Unit?
SI unit definitions National Physical Laboratory website
February 2017
Gravitational waves
Animations of gravitational waves Einstein online
A published scientist at 17?
Young Scientists Journal Journal website
Crest awards British Science Association website
Institute for Reseach in Schools IRIS website
Nuffield Research Placements Nuffield website
Royal Society Partnership Grants Royal Society website
Join the YSJ team YSJ website
YSJ: about us YSJ website
November 2016
Stockbridge dampers
Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse YouTube video
Not the Nobel prize: atomic number
Moseley's experiment Animation
Solving problems with Isaac Physics
Create an Isaac account Website
Sign up for Isaac events Website
Career paths of physics graduates
Firing the rockets Isaac questions
Launching a rocket Isaac questions
Resistor for LED Isaac questions
Body capacitance Isaac questions
Crossword Fluids: solution and notes
Lift of an aircraft wing University of Cambridge website and video
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/how-wings-really-work
Stockbridge dampers
Pylon of the month Blog
Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse YouTube video
Not the Nobel prize: atomic number
Moseley's experiment Animation
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/moseley/university/
September 2016
Ernest Rutherford
Biography The Nobel Foundation's website
Electric circuits
Conducting dough recipe Website article
Ohmic behaviour PhET simulation
Diodes Website tutorial
Circuit models Website article
April 2016
Earth's Electric Atmosphere
Thunderstorm map Real time map
GEC Detector Website article
Flexural Strength
Mechanical testing Lab website
Physicists: measurers of all things
Micrometer screw gauge Website with self-test questions
Vernier calliper Website with self-test questions
Callipers and micrometers National Physical Laboratory website
February 2016
Experiments with radioactivity
Brachytherapy - Wikipedia page
Managing Ionising Radiation - Safety document
November 2015
Tsunami: what gives the waves their power?
2004 Tsunami Simulation - YouTube video
Experiments with light
Many-worlds Interpretation - Wikipedia page
September 2015
Supersonic skydive
Red Bull Stratos - Official webpage
The Red Bulletin - Online magazine
Red Bull Stratos (World Record Freefall) - YouTube video
Georg Simon Ohm 1789-1854
The Unit of Ohm - webpage
Trojan asteroids
Trojan Asteroid Shares Orbit with Earth - NASA video
Distant Asteroid Revealed to be a Complex Mini Geological World - Keck Observatory news page
April 2015
The world of exoplanets
The Kepler Mission - Offical NASA page
Worldly wobbles
Precession - Wikipedia page
Earth's Orientation - MIT official page
Testing tough
Brittle Fracture Case Study - Database of shipping failures
For Students
Physics information found online
Great links, fun sites, careers, site of the month, common questions, equations and formulae
Get advice and information on your AS and A-level exams
AQA - Exam board website
Edexcel - Exam board website
OCR - Exam board website
WJEC - Educational resources
CCEA - Curriculum and examination council
See what’s happening in the world of physics
ESA - home page
NASA - home page
European Southern Observatory - home page
CERN - home page
Reviews of popular science books
The Solar System - Informative website
Hubble Space Telescope - home page
The Astronomy Picture of the Day
Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine - free publications and information about techniques
Institute of Engineering and Technology - news of developments in engineering
National Physical Laboratory - home page
For Teachers
The Institute of Physics - supporting physicists at all stages of their education and career.
STEM Learning Centres - providing high quality continuing professional development for everyone involved in science education
Investigate the world of physics – physics search engine