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Biological & Medical Physics

Physics in Industry & Commerce

Safety, Stockrooms & Instrument Shops

Laboratories (Topical Bibliographies, Local Links, and Books)

Mechanics & Nonlinear Dynamics

Thermal & Chemical Physics

Fluid Dynamics, Acoustics & Plasma Physics

Electromagnetism, Optics & Lasers

Quantum & Elementary Particle Physics

Atomic - Molecular Physics & Nanotechnology

Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science

Biological & Medical Physics  

Physics in Industry & Commerce

Earth, Environment & Renewable Energy

Astrodynamics, Gravity & Relativity

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Mathematical & Computational Methods 

Libraries & General Physics Information

Colorado Libraries

(This is an incomplete list. See particular library sites for links to more Colorado libraries.)

• Prospector
• Auraria Library
• CU Health Sciences
• CU Boulder
• Colorado School of Mines
• Colorado State University
• University of Denver
• Colorado College
• Denver Public Library
• Jefferson County Public Library
• Aurora Public Library
• Boulder Public Library

Compilations of Physics Information

• Physics Central (APS)
• Physics.org (IOP)
• Physics 2000 (CU Boulder)
• Net Advance of Physics (MIT)
• PhysNET
• Physics To Go
• Virtual Physics Library (ViFaPhys)
• ScitechResources.gov ("a catalog of government science & technology web sites)
• About Physics
• Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
• The WWW Virtual Library
• Wikipedia - physics
• Yahoo! - science - physics

Organizations, Colleges, Universities & Research

National Organizations

• American Institute of Physics (AIP)
  • American Physical Society (APS)
  • American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
  • Society of Physics Students (SPS)
  • Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics Honor Society)
  • American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
  • Optical Society of America (OSA)
  • Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
  • Society of Rheology
  • American Crystallographic Association (ACA)
  • American Astronomical Society (AAS)
  • American Vacuum Society: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces and Processing (AVS)
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Institute of Physics (UK) (IOP)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Biophysical Society
• Materials Research Society (MRS)
• Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
• American Mathematical Society
• Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
• Instrumentation Society of America (ISA)
• Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society)

4-Year College & University Physics (or Science) Departments

• Adams State College
• Colorado Christian University
• Colorado College
• Colorado School of Mines
• Colorado State University (Fort Collins)
• Colorado State University (Pueblo)
• Fort Lewis College
• Mesa State College
• Metropolitan State College at Denver
• Regis University
• United States Air Force Academy
• University of Colorado at Boulder
• Univeristy of Colorado at Colorado Springs
• University of Colorado Denver (UC Denver)
  • UC Denver physics main page
  • UC Denver physiology & biophysics
• University of Denver
• University of Northern Colorado
• Western State College

Colorado Community Colleges

(Italicised links preceded by ... point to general college web sites rather than physics-related programs.)

• Colorado Community College System directory
• ...Aims CC
• Arapahoe CC
• Colorado Community Colleges Online
• ...Colorado Mountain College
• ...Colorado Northwestern CC
• CC Aurora
• ...CC Denver
• Front Range CC
  • Westminster
  • Larimer
• ...Lamar CC
• ...Morgan CC
• ...Northeastern JC
• Otero JC
• ...Pikes Peak CC
• Pueblo CC
• Red Rocks CC
• Trinidad State JC

Vocational schools (note the courses in skill areas useful to experimental work):

• ... Delta-Montrose
• ... Emily Griffith Opportunity School
• ... Pickens Tech Center
• ... San Juan Basin Area

Museums

• Colorado state government list of museums
• Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Regional Physics Organizations

• Denver Area Physics Teachers
• Society of Physics Students (Colorado chapters): see also the SPS Zone 14 web site
  • Colorado School of Mines
  • Colorado State University (Fort Collins)
  • Metropolitan State College at Denver
  • University of Colorado at Boulder
  • University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
  • University of Colorado Denver
  • University of Northern Colorado

Government & Nonprofit Labs in Colorado

• National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • Physics Lab at NIST
• National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • see also "NOAA in Your State: Colorado"
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
• Rocky Mountain Institute
• Southwest Research Institute Department of Space Studies (Boulder)
• United States Geological Survey (USGS) Central Region Office

Funding Agencies

(This is a partial list: see individual university sponsored program offices for more complete information.)

• Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Army Research Office
• Department of Education
• Department of Energy
• Environmental Protection Agency
• NASA
• National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• National Institutes of Health
• National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
• National Science Foundation
• Office of Naval Research
• Research Corporation

International Physics Community

• APS Forum on International Physics
• Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
• PhysNET
• Virtual Physics Library (ViFaPhys)
• UNESCO

Teaching Resources & Physics Education Researh

• Colorado College
  • Physics for Everyone
  • What Works? (Increasing the participation of women in physics)
• Colorado School of Mines physics educational initiatives
  • Studio Physics
  • Center for Technology and Learning Media
  • Classroom Communications Systems
  • Interdisciplineary Microelectronics Processing Lab
• Colorado State University
  • Little Shop of Physics
• Teach Engineering (a national collaboration including CU-Boulder & CSM)
• University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Physics Education Research @ Colorado
  • Physics Education Technology Project
  • Physics2000
  • CU Wizards Science Show
  • Saturday Physics Series
  • Lecture Demonstration Database
  • Science Discovery
• University of Colorado Denver
  • Student Centered Research

Quantum & Elementary Particle Physics

General Links

• National Nuclear Data Center
• Particle Data Group
• Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
• Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
• Fermilab (FNAL)
• High Energy Physics Information Center (HEPIC)
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
• Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
• Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC)
• European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN)
• Deutsches Elektronen-Synkrotron (DESY)

  Biological & Medical Physics

  General links

  • What is physiology? What is biophysics? (UC Denver Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics)
  • Biophysics Core Handbook (UC Denver Program in Molecular Structure)
  • Bioengineering at UC Denver
  • Biophysics Program at CU-Boulder
  • UCD Health Sciences Schools & Departments

  Physics in Industry & Commerce

  General Links

  • W3W3 Colorado Technology Internet Talk Radio
  • Advance Colorado Center - support for nonprofits to advance Colorado's economy
  • CU Boulder Leeds School of Business Business Research Division

  Business Data Source

  • Goliath "the fast, easy way to access Thomson Gale's authoritative business information resources"... with advanced search form.

  See also:

  North American Industrial Classification System (NAI)... a list of codes by industry type (replaces Standard Industrial SIC)

  Standard Industrial Classifications (SIC) ... the earlier codes of industy and business types that is still in use by many businesses, database providers, etc.

  Astronomy & Astrophysics

  General Links

  • Astronomy League
    • Mountain Area Research Section
  • CU Boulder Center for Astrophysics & Space Astronomy (CASA)
    • Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC)
    • Astrophysical Research Lab (ARL)
  • DU Mt. Evans Meyer Womble Observatory
  • DU Historic Chamberlain Observatory
  • DU Student Telescope Network
  • DU Student Astronomy Lab
  • Denver Museum of Science and Natural History Gates Planetarium

  Mathematical & Computational Methods

  Math Typesetting

  TeX symbols

  Safety, Stockrooms & Instrument Shops

  Safety & Hazardous Materials

  • Colorado School of Mines Interdisciplinary Silicon Processing Lab
    • Chemical Safety
    • Waste Disposal
  • Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) Environment, Safety & Health manuals

  Standards & Calibration

  • NIST Reference on Constants, Units & Uncertainty
    • Fundamental Physical Constants
    • International System of Units
    • Uncertainty of Measurement Results
  • NIST Physical Reference Data
  • NIST Chemistry Webbook
  • SciTechResources.gov
  • Periodic Table
    • WebElements(TM) (Sheffield)
    • CRC Periodic Table online
  • MatWeb(TM) Materials Properties
  • ChemInfo (Indiana University)
  

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