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Recommended Videos
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Powers of Ten (Eaves, 1989)
This
video takes the viewer on an adventure that
starts with a picknicing couple sleeping along
the lakeside in Chicago. The view
"backs away" from the couple one
order of magnitude every 10 seconds until
our own local cluster of galaxies is but
a speck among others. The journey
reverses back toward the couple, continuing
on into a proton of a carbon atom within
the DNA of a white blood cell in the
sleeping man. (17 minutes)
The Elegant Universe (NOVA, 2003)
This
PBS special consists of three one-hour
segments based on Brian Greene's book of
the same title. In this series, Greene
describes the fundamental forces of nature
and phycists struggle to unite these into
one "Theory of Everything." This
video also provides some historical information
regarding the discoveries of the fundamental
forces, and includes such topics as superstrings
and hidden dimensions.
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Recommended Books
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Transmission Electron Microscopy (Carter,
1996)
How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life
(Bloomfield, 1997)
Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle
Physics (Veltman, 2003)
This
book provides an overview of modern particle
physics that is very readable even for the
non-scientist. In this book, Veltman
gives an explanation of quantum mechanics
and relativity that prepares the reader
for understanding the laws that govern particle
physics.
The Charm of Strange Quarks (Barnett,
Muehry, Quinn, 2000)
The Elegant Universe (Brian Greene,
2000)
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Links
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- http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/
The Particle Data Group out of Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory created
this interactive tour of fundamental
particles, including quarks, neutrinos,
antimatter and particle accelerators.
This has very easy to access menus
which makes it a great resource for
presentations.
- http://www.howstuffworks.com/telescopes.htm
This great website explains, in simple
terms, how a telescope works. It
includes interactive graphics which
can be adjusted to show the path of
light through different telescopes.
- http://www.noao.edu/
This is the website for the National
Optical Astronomy Observatory. There
are great pictures and information about
the astronomy facilities with in the
United States.
- http://invsee.asu.edu?Invess/invess.htm
This website was created by a group
of university and industry scientists
and can allow users to see and remotely
operate an electron microscope over
the web. It also contains modules which
can explain how things at the atomic
and subatomic scale interact.
- http://www.strangematterexhibit.com/index.html
This is a very fun website which
lets students virtually play with matter.
In the "zoom" section,
students can see images from the observational
level to the atomic level. The
other sections allow students to "crush"
and "transform" matter as
well.
- http://www.charfac.umn.edu/
This is the website for the Characterization
Facilities at the University of Minnesota.
These lab facilities house some
of the SEM and TEM microscopes that
we used during our summer research.
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