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Environmental Chemistry

Environmental chemistry.com: Periodic Table Phosphorus

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent source of information on phosphorus including its physical and chemical properties. Highly recommended.
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Environmental Chemistry

Environmental chemistry.com: Periodic Table Krypton

For Students 9th - 10th
An exceptionally thorough resource with an amazing set of data on krypton, it chemical and physical properties, its electron configuration and its isotopes, among other things.
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Edward Teller, ph.d.

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of Edward Teller teaches us about his early life which began in Budapest, Hungary, his interest in physics and his subsequent contributions in the development of the atomic bomb.
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Chemicool

Chemi Cool: Vanadium

For Students 9th - 10th
Set of tables describing many physical and chemical properties of the element vanadium.
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Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Boron

For Students 9th - 10th
A great deal of information on boron, and its physical and chemical properties, all arranged and organized in a very convenient way.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Linear Momentum and Collisions: Conservation of Momentum

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to describe the law of conservation of linear momentum, derive an expression for the conservation of momentum, explain conservation of momentum with examples, and explain the law of...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: The Nucleus and Isotopes

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students learn about the particles in an atomic nucleus, isotopes, and nuclear forces.
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University of California

Ucla: Maria Goeppert Mayer

For Students 9th - 10th
UCLA Physics presents three documents here on Maria Goeppert Mayer, including a brief biography, a longer biography, and a physics meeting address on Mayer and the specifics of her work in nuclear physics.
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California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology: Snow

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the California Institute of Technology contains information on the study of snow crystals. There are numerous links on the left side of the page. Some of the topics are photo collections, preserving snow and the physics of...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: The Bohr Model of the Atom

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will learn about the history of atomic theory, and the development of the Bohr model of the atom. Includes a simulation for exploring the Bohr Model.
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University of Michigan

Department of Nuclear Engineering at U of M

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the website of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at University of Michigan. There a links to academics, research, degree programs, etc.
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Texas A&M University

Texas a & M University: Nuclear Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the website for the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A & M University. It focuses on the Nuclear Engineering program, and current news about the field.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Rutherford's Enlarged: A Content Embedded Activity on Nature of Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through a study of Ernest Rutherford's experiments with atomic structure, students develop a deeper understanding of the nature of science. The activity is taken from a linked article by the author that was published in the Journal of...
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Other

Characteristics of Energy and Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
A lengthy page from the Fundamentals of Physical Geography site. Energy is distinguished from matter, and the different forms of energy are identified and discussed. Four types of heat transfer (convection, advection, conduction,...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Bohr's Model of Hydrogen

For Students 9th - 10th
How Bohr's model of hydrogen explains atomic emission spectra.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Ionization Energies

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise description of ionization energy, and a line graph that plots the ionization energies of the first 88 elements vs. the atomic numbers.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Cern: Antimatter

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderfully written non-technical introduction to antimatter, as well as a brief discussion of the investigation into the asymmetry between the quantities of matter and antimatter observed in our universe.
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NASA

Nasa: Reaching for the Stars

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the latest news on research and development underway to use antimatter as a fuel for space vehicles. (April 12, 1999)
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PBS

Pbs: A Science Odyssey

For Students 9th - 10th
Website for the PBS series "A Science Odyssey." Numerous opportunities to explore the people and discoveries of science.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Particle Adventure: Matter and Antimatter

For Students 9th - 10th
The beginning of an informative tutorial on antimatter, covering quarks, hadrons, baryons, mesons, leptons, and neutrinos.
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Other

Netlib: 4.3 Quantum Chromodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
An online textbook containing an introduction to quantum chromodynamics (QCD). This is a proposed theory about what causes quarks and gluons to form hadrons. Article contains a description of lattice QCD, an approximation to QCD that is...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fermilab Physicists Find New Matter Antimatter Asymmetry

For Students 9th - 10th
This complicated yet interesting article describing the discovery of asymmetry between the behavior of matter and antimatter.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Gerd Binnig

For Students 9th - 10th
Gerd Binnig co-developed the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) with Heinrich Rohrer. The STM allowed scientists entry into the atomic world in a new way and was a major advance in the field of nanotechnology. For their achievement,...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Enrico Fermi

For Students 9th - 10th
Enrico Fermi was a titan of twentieth-century physics. He outlined the statistical laws that govern the behavior of particles that abide by the Pauli exclusion principle and developed a theoretical model of the atom in his mid-twenties....

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