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APA FORMATTING AND STYLE GUIDE: THE OWL AT PURDUE

DICTIONARIES:

• American Institute of Physics Newsletter Searchable 
• CliffsNotes Physics Glossary
• Dictionaries
• A Glossary of Frequently Misused or Misunderstood Physics Terms and Concepts: Donald E. Simanek
• HperPhysics This is an online physics/sciences dictionary with rather comprehensive definitions.
• One Look Dictionaries (465694 words in 70 dictionaries now indexed) Searchable
• Wolfram Research: Science World's Erick Weisstein's World of Physics: Dictionary

ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND HANDBOOKS:

• Encyclopeida of Laser Physics and Technology, An Open Access Encyclopedia
• NIST Chemistry WebBook: Thermochemical data for over 6000 organic and small inorganic compounds, Reaction thermochemistry data for over 9000 reactions, IR spectra for over 8700 compounds, Mass spectra for over 12,000 compounds, UV/Vis spectra for over 400 compounds, Electronic and vibrational spectra for over 4000 compounds. Constants of diatomic molecules (spectroscopic data) for over 600 compounds, Ion energetics data for over 16,000 compounds
• NIST Physical Reference Data 
• Scholarpedia: Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems

GENERAL WEB SITES:

• APA FORMATTING AND STYLE GUIDE: THE OWL AT PURDUE
• CNN Weather Interactive
• Google Earth Interactive Satellite Photographs of specific addresses, etc.
• Google Scholar: Scholarly web sites take from Google.
• KnightCite A fill-in-the-blank, free, online resource used for citing in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles: from Calvin College
• Knovel Library is a full text science, technology, and engineering site: Aerospace & radar technology, biochemistry, biotechnology, biology, ceramics & ceramics engineering, chemistry & chemical engineering, environment & environmental engineering, food science, mechanics & mechanical engineering, pharmaceuticals/cosmetics & toiletries, safety/health & hygiene, etc.
• National Academies Press: Physical Sciences 3,000+ books online free
• Optical Illusions Galore SandlotScience
• Physics Searchable
• Physics Data Useful for Physics Teachers 
• Physics Demonstration Demonstrations and Projects at UC, Berkeley
• Physics Education Research Group Thinking Problems in Mechanics
• Physics Education Research Group University of Maryland Fermi Problems Site
• Physics/Geophysics Abstract Service Searchable: Provided by NASA 
• Physics, Internet Resources to: ACRL. Rich resources....
• ScienceDaily: "...source for the latest research news."
• Views of the Solar System Searchable
• The Weather Channel Interactive
• WWW Virtual Library: Physics

PERIODICALS/JOURNALS/ARTICLES:

• American Institute of Physics Newsletter Searchable 
• Directory of Open Access Journals: These are scholarly full text articles.
• FindArticles.com Free, over 700 full text periodicals.
• Ingenta: A general journal database with 100s of full text or abstracted journals.
• Physics E-Journals 
• Physics News Update 
• Science News  Searchable

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