Physics Resources

Misc

Magnetic Levitation: Including movies of diamagnetically levitated frogs and suchlike.

Green flash page

My official page at the Naval Research Laboratory

Physics Organisations

Kid tries to make breeder reactor

Heavens-Above: This page helps you to track artificial sattelites.

Tools for Physics

Plotting (data, not evil schemes)

"Graphics tools for scientists and engineers" by a scientist who seems to have settled on much of the same toolset that I have lately found useful.

On the Macintosh running MacOS X, the output of Gnuplot and some other graphics programs can be displayed with Aquaterm, an alternative that doesn't require starting up X Windows.

Gnuplot can be controlled from within python with this.

Petr Mikulik's gnuplot page with examples of the use of his pm3d splot mode (now part of the official gnuplot), that can color surfaces in gnuplot according to data value, and thus make image plots.

Gnuplot Manual

pm3dpal: This web page offers a form where you can enter color names and get back an rgbformula for use in pm3d. Also, you can download the python script that does the calculation. This is very useful because it is pretty difficult to figure out how to find the numbers that yield the palette you want in pm3d.