Physics Internet Resources

Physics on-line Information:

• Physics Web Physics news, jobs and resources from IoP.
• PhysNet Physics Departments and Documents Network

Journals and Preprints

• Preprints from Los Alamos
  • Los Alamos Physics Information Service
  • Los Alamos Physics Archive Help
• Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System.
• Eprintweb.Org.
• SPIRES bibliography search.
• Electronic Journals of the American Physical Society.
• High Energy Physics Information Center at Fermilab (HEPIC)
• Boston Area Physics Calendar published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Physics at Harvard University.

Professional Societies:

• American Physical Society
• The Society of Physics Students
• American Chemical Society
• American Institute of Physics
• Materials Research Society
• Optical Society of America
• International Society of Optical Engineers

Career in Physics:

• PhDs.org: Science, Math, and Engineering Career Resources
• Physics Career Information Collection of links maintained by Fred Lemmerhirt
• Physics Today Career Network
• Tips Guides from MIT Careers Office
• Resume WorkBook from Scientific Placement, Inc.
• GreatPlaceToWork.com

Physical Reference Data

• Physical Reference Data from NIST. Includes data on fundamental physical constants, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, ionization cross sections, absorption of x-rays and gamma rays, radiation dosimetry, half-life measurements, atomic weights, and condensed matter physics.

Physics Books:

• Directory of FREE Online Books.
• Freetechbooks.com lists free online computer science and engineering books (+lecture notes), all of which are freely and legally available over the Internet.
• Textbook Revolution is the webs source for free educational materials.
• Online Mathematics Textbooks
• Direct Textbook. "A book price comparison site that allows to search for the best prices on Physics books at online booksellers like Barnes and Noble, Amazon and many more."
• StudentMarket.com. "StudentMarket.com compares new and used textbook prices (including Physics books) among several competing online bookstores."

Mathematical Links

• Wolfram Functions Site. "... largest collection of mathematical knowledge about special functions ..."
• Eric W. Weisstein's MathWorld. "... is a comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia intended for students, educators, math enthusiasts, and researchers ..."
• Netlib Repository. "... is a collection of high quality mathematical software, papers, and databases."
• Guide to Available Mathematical Software. "Search for software according to a) what problem it solves; b) package name; c) module name; d) text in module abstracts;"
• Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis FAQ. "A summary of Internet-related resources for a handful of fields related to Scientific Computing, primarily: (a) scientific and engineering numerical computing, (b) numerical analysis, (c) symbolic algebra, (d) statistics, (f) operations research."

Online Courses Collections:

• MIT's OpenCourseWare. "MIT OCW is a large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative, with the goal to provide free, searchable, access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world..."

Online Tools:

• pdfonline.com. Online converter of graphics and documents to pdf.