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Ippog: Hands on Particle Physics
Looking for more insight into particle physics? Search among several general particle physics resources. Or locate a specific particle physics institute in your area of the world.
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Particle Physics at Discovery's Horizon
Explore the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and how the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation have collaborated with this huge project and related experiments. You can find facts about the LHC, browse a bank of high...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Particle Physics
An in-depth encyclopedia article on particle physics. Discusses what encompasses the study of particle physics, gives a history of particle physics, briefly describes the Standard Model of particle physics, discusses the dispute that...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: The Particle Adventure
Visit this site for an interactive tour of the atom and all aspects of particle physics. View the animations available with almost every description on this site. A great place for the fundamentals of particles and forces including a...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench Showcase: Physics, Quantum Physics
A collection of simulations to show the important topics of quantum physics.
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Particle Adventure Dutch Version
Dutch version of the well-known "Particle Adventure" physics website that teaches students about atoms, mass, particle physics, and quantum physics. The site discusses theories related to physics and provides other links related to the...
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Circular Well Model
This downloadable java simulation models the 2D energy eigenstates of a particle trapped in a very deep two-dimensional circular well.
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University of Birmingham: The Nuclear Physics Group
This is the website of the Nuclear Physics Group at the University of Birmingham. There is information on research, degrees, seminars, etc.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Start: How Do Computers Simulate the Motion of Virtual Particles?
In this lesson we'll explore how we use fairly simple physics to draw particles which move according to the forces we feel in the real world (such as wind & gravity).
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Applying Gravity to a Particle
Next, let's apply all these ideas to the case where a particle is being acted on by both gravity and air resistance using this 5-question quiz/practice. The gravity force vector points downward, and the air resistance force opposes it.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Cern's Supercollider
In this video, Brian Cox provides a brief overview of particle physics and discusses the role of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. [14:57] Followed by a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Fundamental Particles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Investigates fundamental particles and their discovery, and how they relate to fundamental forces.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Step 1 (Particle Under Gravity)
This program simulates a particle falling due to gravity. Try changing the initial settings. What do you think will happen if you... Increase gravity? Change the mass of the particle? Make the time step negative?
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Particle Collisions
Test your understanding of how to simulate the collision of two particles with this 8-problem quiz/practice.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Particle Calculations
Apply what you've learned to calculate the position and velocity of a particle over time with this 8-problem quiz/practice.
Symmetry Magazine
Symmetry Magazine: Explain It in 60 Seconds: Z Boson
The Z boson, described here, is important in the study of electroweak force. "Explain It In 60 Seconds" is an article series that aims to summarize in a few paragraphs the meaning of different concepts in particle physics.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Thermal Speed Lab
This lab is designed to have students learn the factors affecting the RMS velocity for a sample of gas. The student will be able to set the temperature of the environment and the mass of the particles.
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Cern: The Particle Detector Briefbook
A glossary of terms used in experimental particle physics. Claims to be a "handbook" or "briefbook" for all of the complicated concepts found in particle detection.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: High Energy Particles
[Free Registration/Login Required] A video module that allows students to uncover the relationship between speed and kinetic energy in the context of a particle accelerator.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929
This site from The Nobel Foundation tells the scientific work which earned Louis de Broglie the Nobel Prize in Physics. Here, you can read the Presentation Speech in which Professor C.W. Oseen praises Louis de Broglie's work and de...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938
At this site from The Nobel Foundation, read about the life and scientific discoveries of physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), whose work with radiation and "discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons" earned him the...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physics Simulation: Subatomic Particle Zoo
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the most basic particles of matter, including quarks and leptons, and the four fundamental interactions using this interactive simulation. A PDF worksheet is also available.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Closest Approach Lab
This lab was designed to allow students to look at the closest distance that you can get between two particles when one of the particles is fired at the other from a certain distance at a certain speed.
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American Physical Society: Division of Nuclear Physics
This is the homepage of the American Physical Society's Division of Nuclear Physics. There are links to information on careers, research, degree programs, etc.