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Books

Our textbook by Nick England isn't bad but it contains a lot of material that is not on the European Schools s4/5 physics syllabus and material is often presented in a very condensed fashion. If you find our textbook too difficult then try:

bulletComplete Physics by Stephen Pople, OUP Oxford, ISBN-10: 0199147345, ISBN-13: 978-0199147342
bulletNew Physics for You Students' Book: Revised Edition for all GCSE Examinations by Keith Johnson ISBN-10: 0748783288       ISBN-13: 978-0748783281

General Sci/Tech links

bullet BBC Bitesize GCSE Science includes sections on physics
bullet Sci/Tech news from the wonderful BBC
bullet Yahoo! - Science and Oddities
bulletELSI in Science - Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Science.
bulletGlobal On-line Adventure Learning Site (GOALS) - "Explorers of all ages are invited to embark with on a growing list of exciting adventures."
bullet The Exploratorium - The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception with over 650 interactive "hands on" exhibits.
bullet The London Science Museum
bullet Science vocabulary list for 12 year olds.

For Teachers

bullet US National Science Teachers Association

Physics

bulletInstitute of Physics
bulletWeird Research and Anomalous Physics
bulletBritney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics

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Space

bulletJet Propulsion Lab 
bulletThe Web Nebulae - Images and information on types of Nebulae.
bulletRobotic Tele-Excavation     
bulletProject Galileo
bulletRussian Space Science  
bulletSpaceflight (NASA)
bulletTerraNova  
Backdropped by the blackness of space and a blue and white Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) is separated from the Space Shuttle Endeavour following the undocking of the two spacecraft over western Kazakhstan.

For more NASA photos click HERE.

International Space Agencies

bulletEurope - European Space Agency (ESA)
 

 Changes in the ozone hole over the Antarctic during a  6 year period measured by the GOME instrument on ERS.

Aerospace Agencies

bulletMatlin Space Science Systems  
bulletSmithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Interesting Space Projects

bulletGalileo Mission to Jupiter   
bulletThe Nine Planets - A Multimedia tour of our Solar System.
bulletAtlas of Mars
bulletEuropean Southern Observatory - Provides data and images of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact with Jupiter plus details of the ESO observatory and its projects.
bulletNASA/JPL Imaging Radar Home Page - The latest mission results from two flights of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (April and October, 1994), in which the Space Radar Laboratory successfully imaged sites around the world.

The picture below shows some of the European satellites making observations in various parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.