Modern Physics Course Links
History
Nobel
prize winners and other famous physicists
Relativity
Special
Relativity
C-SHIP:
relativistic ray-traced images a work in progress
Particle Physics
Chart
of the Nuclides
chart of the Standard Model's fundamental
particles and interactions
Particle
Physics Booklet tables of quarks, leptons, baryons, ... descriptions
of detectors, ...
The
Particle Adventure an interactive exploration of subatomic structure
(very long and at times
laborious, but everything's there)
the Top Quark story
1995
Nobel Prize in Physics with descriptions of the work: discovery of
the neutrino (Fred Reines) and the discovery of the tau lepton (Martin
Perl)
CERN
produces first antimatter hydrogen atoms and follow-up
story
do
quarks have parts?
Nuclear Physics
nuclear
physics by Brad Lambert
Rutherford
scattering by Brian Northcutt and Michael Ventura
Shielding
of Gamma-Radiation by John Burke and PJ Deschenes
Early Quantum Physics
the behavior of particles
and waves
Quantum
Theory in 1929 recollections from the first Copenhagen conference
Philosophy of Quantum Physics
the
EPR Paradox and Bell's Inequality
The
Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics originally published
in Phys Rev, this paper includes interesting sections of the Copenhagen
interpretation, EPR experiments, etc.
Many
Worlds
Schroedinger Equation Solutions
Quantum
AirTrack
a
few exact solutions by John Thacker
Solid-state Physics
Superconductivity
by Schuyler Corry
Interactions
of electrons in solid-state matter by Stefan Kazachki
Research Institutions
Labs
doing physics research