Web Tools for Better Understanding Physics Concepts

• Cambridge Relativity photographs, animations, and textual information explaining cosmology, black holes, cosmic strings, inflation, and quantum gravity.
• Computational Physics Course covers main computational techniques used in modern Physics: ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, matrix methods, Monte Carlo methods and other simulation methods, and computer algebra.
• Electricity and Magnetism Tutorials feature atomic orbitals, cathode rays, AC and DC generator action, and more.
• Galileo and Einstein Home Page a series of 27 lectures covering the progress of scientific thought from the early Greeks through Galileo, Newton, and Einstein.
• Interactive Physics Problem Set nearly 100 practice problems for Physics students, along with detailed solutions and interactive computer experiments. problems organized into "chapters" on topics from calculus review to torques.
• Methods of Mathematical Physics I: Lecture Notes by Professor Mark Trodden of Case Western Reserve. lectures covering analysis of complex functions, exact & approximate evaluation of sums & integrals, solution of ordinary differential equations, transform calculus, Sturm-Liouville Theory, and calculus of variations.
• Net Advance of Physics: Review Articles and Tutorials in an Encyclopaedic Format reviews basic Physics topics in largely textual fashion.
• Particle Adventure interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter, extra dimensions, dark matter, accelerators, and particle detectors. 
• Physics of Beams and Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration
• PhysicsWeb Education/Exercises Page links to pages of Physics problems. many linked pages focus on fields of physics (e.g., classical electrodynamics) or subject-levels (e.g., graduate-level).
• Scuba Physics: Buoyancy and Gas Laws introduces gas theory, Boyle's law, Charles' law, and Dalton's law. 
• Second Superstring Revolution defines and presents string theory and ideas supporting supersymmetry, as well as explores contradictions between quantum mechanics and relativity.
• Virtual Laboratory range of visualizations and demonstrations, illustrating topics like Newton's cannon, Brownian motion, and two-dimensional collisions.
• Visual Quantum Mechanics: Online Interactive Programs use interactive computer visualizations and animations to introduce various topics related to quantum  mechanics.

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