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Roentgen's Discovery of the x-ray 
  
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Publisher: The British Library
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The text in this site describes how Roentgen's discovered x-rays, how he created the first x-ray image, and how he investigated x-ray properties. Early medical applications are…
http://www.bl.uk/learning/cult/bodies/xray/roentgen.html
MIT Technology Review: X-Rays Made with Scotch Tape 
  
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This short MIT Technology Review article describes how unrolling scotch tape produces x-rays. A video shows how to use these x-rays to make an image of a bone in a finger.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/10/23/217918/x-rays-made-with-scot...
Hyperphysics: X-ray tube 
  
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This Hyperphysics webpage provides an explanation of how an x-ray tube works. An accompanying diagram shows the parts of the tube and how the photons are produced. Two links within…
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/xtube.html
Hyperphysics: Electromagnetic Waves 
  
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This Wikipedia page contains a labeled diagram of an electromagnetic wave showing how the electric and magnetic vectors change as the wave moves through space. Text introduces the…
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Waves/emwavecon.html#c1
X-rays from free electrons 
  
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This NASA webpage provides a description of three ways that the acceleration of free electrons can produce electromagnetic radiation. Each method is illustrated by a diagram.…
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/xray_generation_el.html
HyperPhysics: Color Force 
  
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This HyperPhysics webpage contains a description of "color force" and "color charge." These are concepts in the "quark model," which explains interactions of protons, neutrons, and…
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Forces/color.html
Teaching Electromagnetism Using Advanced Technologies 
  
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This site from MIT offers simulations of electric and magnetic fields and shows how these fields change as charges, magnets, and current-carrying coils move. Don't miss the Falling…
http://web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www/anim.html
There's More to Light Than Meets the Eye 
  
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Visit this site to learn all about light--what it is, how it behaves, and where it comes from. There are images, lots of links, and even an activity. Although written for teachers,…
http://web.archive.org/web/20180921110834/https://www.astrosociety.org/e...
The Electromagnetic Spectrum: X-Rays 
  
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Visit this NASA site for an introduction to x-rays and their uses in medicine and astronomy. You'll find descriptions of the first x-ray observations, how they are used to visualize…
https://science.nasa.gov/ems/11_xrays
APS News Online: This Month in Physics History – November 8, 1895: Roentgen's Discovery of X-rays 
  
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This article from the American Physical Society’s APS News Online provides an explanation of the discovery of X-rays and the revolutionary impact it has had on physics and astronomy.…
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200111/history.cfm
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