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A promising God-of-all-inquiries. If you have 13 minutes to spair, watch the intro video.  Or just enter:                                                                                                    
Demonstration Project
A great pedagogical tool. You'll need Mathematica Player 7
Integrator
Wolfram|Alpha will integrate, but this lets you
practice Mathematica-style input.		 World of Physics
Tour the world of physics in all its mathematical glory.



For Physics
HyperPhysics
A fantastic reference for undergraduates.
flop
An indispensable resource for physics students and teachers alike, consider purchasing the Feynman Lectures on Physics. The dedicated website has useful links section as well.
  • Physics GRE Study
  • Graduate PDEs and Special Functions
  • Sidney Coleman's Lectures



    • For Astronomy
    WWtelescope
    Having switched to astrophysics in graduate school, I knew little to nothing about navigating the sky.  This helped fill in the void and is a great way to connect courswork to the real deal observations.  I learned of this from a talk by Curtis Wong part of the larger TEDx talks this year themed around Feynman), who was also behind Project Tuva. All excellent. Thanks Bill Gates!
    scholarpedia
    Of course, Wikipedia makes for good reading too, such as this Astronomy Portal, but it lacks that 'scholar' feel.


    For Computing:

  • Dr. Nöckel's Computing Issues (especially LaTeX tips)
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  • Oregon State's Intro Comp. Physics Lectures
  • BYU's Computational Physics Labs
  • MATLAB Book by the guy who invented it
  • MATLAB Samples: UMD
  • MATLAB Samples: OSU
  • Scientific Programming in C
  • C Sample Codes
  • Get Started With Python
  • Python for Astronomy
  • Python for Science
  • Python Samples
  • Physics with VPython
  • VPython based Physics Course



    • For Educators:


    Advice to undergrads considering physics grad school:

    First, three things my mom never told me:
    1. Physics Grad School is free.  In exchange for teaching duties, graduate tuition is waved and a small stipend of $12-$20 G's gets you through the year.  Most schools renew your stipend with research grants instead of teaching assistantships in the later years.  It’s a sweet deal, considering that doctors and lawyers have harder jobs and get in crazy debt to pay for their schooling.
    2. PhDs in the sciences take an average of 6 years to finish.  The median is 5-7.  To this day she tells me that a Master’s Degree should take 2 years and a PhD 4 total—followed by a high paying job.  In reality, the PhD is followed by a round or two of post-docs, which are low-paying, 2-year stints aimed at developing your ability as an independent researcher.  And from there either a battle for tenure or a real job…
    3. There is no need to get a Master's Degree first.  In fact, many Master’s programs are not given a tuition waiver, as these are reserved for PhD students.  Ordinarily, MS degrees are handed to students that either couldn’t hack it or decide that physics isn’t their calling after all and quit the program early.
    The Entangled Dance of Physics
    By the editor-in-chief of Physics Today, this article covers the     who, what, where, & why's of studying physics.

    A good resource on careers in physics:
    About.com: Careers In Physics

    Links to great advice from Sean Carroll, from his Greatest Hits Blog Posts:
    1. Should you become a scientist?
    2. Choosing an Undergraduate School
    3. How to Get Into Grad School
    4. Choosing a Grad School
    5. How To Be a Good Graduate Student
    The American Institute of Physics, AIP, even has a comprehensive one-stop-shopping place for researching physics programs:
  • GradSchoolShopper.com


    • Current world events from a physicist's perspective:





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