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Millikan Oil Drop Experiment JS
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S. Tuleja, W. Christian, M. Belloni, and A. Cox
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The Millikan Oil Drop Exploration is a virtual version of the Millikan's experiment. The experiment is based on balancing forces: the gravitational pull down on an oil drop and the…
https://www.compadre.org/informal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15215&DocID=...
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Nuclear Power
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An introduction to nuclear fission, its controlled release in power stations, problems of nuclear waste, and nuclear accidents. A linked web page discusses nuclear weapons, their…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Snuclear.htm
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ABC's of Nuclear Science
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V. Noto; Publisher: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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See this site for a good general overview of nuclear science. Through descriptions and illustrations, you can explore nuclear structure, radioactivity, nuclear reactions, cosmic…
https://www2.lbl.gov/abc/index.html
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How does an LCD display work?
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This site hosts a video that explains how a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen works. In the video, an engineer for the University of Illinois Urban-Champaign engineering…
https://www.oled-info.com/how-does-lcd-display-work
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Physics Images: Bent-Core Liquid Crystals
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Publisher: American Physical Society
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This American Physical Society webpage hosts two images of bent-core liquid crystals, a particular kind of liquid crystal. The images show the effect of applying an electric field to…
https://www.aps.org/about/physics-images/archive/bentcore.cfm
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The Art of Liquid Crystals
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This webpage (actually, a feed) from the chemistry department at Simon Fraser University displays artistic pictures of liquid crystals.
http://www.sfu.ca/~vancew/vew/Liquid_Crystals/Pages/Photomicrographs_of_...
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What are Quasicrystals, and What Makes Them Noteworthy?
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This brief article explains how quasicrystals were discovered in the lab in 1982. An illustration shows the pattern made by quasicrystal atoms. This article is one of a series in…
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/quasicrystals-win-chemistry-nobel
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The Oklo Fossil Fission Reactors
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R. Loss
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This web page gives an overview of the Oklo fossil fission reactors, including the history of the area where the reactor is located, the science behind the nuclear reactions, and…
http://web.archive.org/web/20130403002047/http://oklo.curtin.edu.au/
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What is Radioactivity?
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This BBC website explains the concept of adioactivity through simple imagery. The language used is easy to follow and the concept is at the a level intended for high school students.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z3gn2nb/revision/1
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Ionizing Radiation and Humans – The Basics
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This Physics Central webpage contains an article that provides basic information on ionizing radiation and its effects on human beings. The website uses simple terminologies, symbols…
https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/radiationandhumans.cfm
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