Links to top science news sites, research labs, educational resources, scientific data, freeware for data analysis, research funding and job opportunities.
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I’ve received an appeal from the University of University of Sri Jayewardenepura in Sri Lanka to help them build their physics library. Please consider donating—read the full post for more details.
A far-ranging and far-sighted book by well-known author Stephen Wolfram, who puts forward a new theory on how things work.
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A high school physics book from the government of Kerala, India.
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A website put together by Nobel-Prize winner Gerard ‘t Hooft that guides students who wish to study on theoretical physics on their own.
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Einstein’s seminal work. Requires the free eTextbookViewer
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From Italy comes this English-language text on the nature of sounds and what it is that makes something sonically pleasing.
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Textbook Revolution is proud to be the sole host of this book, covering all kinds of radiation, including sound, electromagnetic radiation, light, and more.
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A physics/introductory sciences book for middle-school aged children.
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A comprehensive online-only book on all things water—useful for environmental scientists, chemists, phyisicists, biologists, and other -ists.
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Online lecture notes to an upper-level physics course
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An online-only compendium of articles that serves as a textbook.
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Intended for the advanced undergraduate or graduate student, Electromagnetic Field Theory is a textbook on the theory of electrodynamics, at roughly the same level as the well-known textbooks by Jackson and Panofsky&Phillips.
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Science World is a top-notch website that will serve any science and/or math student very well. The site has individual sections for Chemistry, Math, Physics, Astronomy, and Science Biographies.
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Science World is a top-notch website that will serve any science and/or math student very well. The site has individual sections for Chemistry, Math, Physics, Astronomy, and Science Biographies.
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HyperMath is a growing collection of examples of applied mathematics with links to their applications to problems in physics and astronomy.
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An excellent computer-only based physics site, designed to follow concepts of physics through links.
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A collection of books on geology and physics.
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A collection of books from the 1980’s on space exploration. Visit the full review for a great picture.
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These 6 multimedia engineering books are all designed for use with the accompanying free eCourses Online Engineering Course Management System, but there’s no reason you can’t use them solo. See full post for links to individual books.
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A very well done set of two books (one for each semester) that is professionally produced and designed to be easy to share, edit, and photocopy. Comes with problem sets, math handouts, etc.
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Here is a somewhat eclectic combination of an online-only textbook and some physics inspired poetry.
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Online only book that studies the solar wind and other plasma environments.
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A very popular book for engineering students.
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iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science.
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Not a book at all, but rather a useful spot to find info about physics, including practice questions, links to online tutorials, lecture notes and much more.
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A web-only book about the fluids that make up stars.
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A fun physics text for younger students based on the design of a roller coaster.
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An interactive, introductory physics text.
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An online introductory physics text from Arizona State University that emphasizes hands-on science.
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An excellent and very popular series of short textbooks on different physics subjects.
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A brief introduction to Einstein’s Theories of Special and General Relativity.
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A book for Seniors and advanced Juniors who are majoring in the Physical Sciences or Mathematics.
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An intensive introduction to classical and special relativity, Newtonian dynamics and gravitation, Einsteinian dynamics and gravitation, and wave motion.
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A part of the South African Free High School Science Textbook Project for students in Grades 10-12
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Web-only textbook with a somewhat unusual format that puts forward a new theory on a correlation between mountain-building events and ice ages.
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A massive and popular textbook on everything physics related.
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