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Chaos Rules
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Publisher: American Physical Society
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Visit this Physics Central feature for historical background for chaos theory. You'll also find descriptions three recent investigations in this field--weather patterns, population…
http://www.physicscentral.org/explore/action/chaos.cfm
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Ionizing Radiation and Humans – The Basics
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Publisher: American Physical Society
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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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Reduced Gravity Experiments: Vomit Comet Blog
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Visit this site to read a blog about a flight aboard NASA’s reduced gravity parabolic aircraft--the Vomit Comet. The author joined high school teams that conducted experiments in…
http://www.physicscentral.org/explore/einstein/wyp2005/projects/freefall...
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Ferrofluid Cineplex
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895.6748
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin-Madison
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This page from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Interdisciplinary Education Group offers seven videos that show ferrofluid…
https://chemistry.beloit.edu/edetc/cineplex/ff/
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Another dramatic climb toward fusion conditions for Sandia Z accelerator
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792.9007
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Publisher: Sandia Corporation
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This news article, from Sandia National Laboratories, presents advances made on the Sandia Z- pinch machine, which is an intense X-ray source and a possible candidate for fusion…
https://www.sandia.gov/media/z290.htm
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Flow Visualization
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763.6684
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J. Hertzberg; Publisher: Deparment of Mechanical Engineering
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This web site for a class on flow visualization showcases the work of engineering and fine arts students. Eleven galleries present student images showing fluids and clouds, with…
https://www.flowvis.org/
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What is Microgravity?
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736.58967
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Publisher: NASA Glenn Research Center
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This NASA website dispels the myth that there is no gravity in an orbiting spacecraft. It includes the classic diagram of a cannon fired from a mountaintop that gives a projectile…
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/glenn/what-is-microgravity/
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Spontaneous Separation of Charged Grains
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736.44443
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Publisher: American Institute of Physics
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This article from the American Institute of Physics reports on research at Rutgers regarding the separation of two sets of differently charged sand grains. The two kinds of sand are…
http://web.archive.org/web/20080830051637/http://www.aip.org/pnu/2007/83...
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Supernova 1987a
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665.80024
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C. Nave
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This Hyperphysics page hosts a description of Supernova 1987a. It includes the light curve, a photograph of the unusual remnant, and a graph showing the neutrino volley that…
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/sn87a.html