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Millikan Oil Drop Experiment JS
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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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Hurricanes: The Greatest Storms on Earth
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This NASA website contains information about hurricanes and describes how they form, intensify, and then weaken. The site explains the physics of hurricane formation and also the…
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Hurricanes
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Cornell Science News: Nanoguitar
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This Cornell Science News article, provides information about extraordinarily small vibrating devices, including the world's smallest guitar. An optical method for detecting these…
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/07/worlds-smallest-silicon-mechani...
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Physics in Action: CT Scans
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Find out how Computed Tomography (CT) scans work and how they have been improved since the mid-seventies. Compare the CT scan to X-rays to show CT scan's ability to take pictures of…
http://www.physicscentral.org/explore/action/scans.cfm
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CAT Scans
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This Physics 2000 page uses characters and dialogue to help explain what CAT scans are and how they work. Java applets show the relationship between traditional x-rays and the CAT…
https://physics.uwb.edu.pl/main/ptf/fizyka2000/tomography/index.html
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The End of the Age of Oil
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This article, by David Goodstein of Caltech, describes the predictions of the peak in the US and world oil production. The formation of oil is discussed, along with the possibility…
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2004-09-27/end-age-oil/
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Hurricane Multimedia Gallery
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This NASA website, part of the Looking at Earth project, features photos and videos of hurricanes from 1998 through 2005, using recent advances in intensity monitoring and 3-D…
https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/hurricane_multimedia.ht...
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Hurricane Season 2005: Katrina
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This NASA website features photos of the New Orleans area during hurricane Katrina. The before and after photos highlight areas devastated by the storm. The website contains hi-res…
https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/h2005_katrina.html
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Laser-cooling brings large object near absolute zero
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This page showcases research conducted at MIT on the laser-cooling of macroscopic materials, in order to observe quantum effects. The material--a dime-sized mirror--was suspended…
http://news.mit.edu/2007/super-cool
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The Standard Model of Particle Physics
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This site, produced by the BBC, provides an introduction to the standard model of particle physics, the theory of the constituents of protons and neutrons. All of the elementary…
https://www.h2g2.com/approved_entry/A666173
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