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