Cutnell & Johnson PHYSICS 6/e
Chapter Thirty-Two: Ionizing Radiation, Nuclear Energy and Elementary Particles

Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (Radiation Basics)

http://www.princeton.edu/~ehs/radtrain
/Modules/Bio.html

excerpt from the Radioactive Materials Safety Class at the Princeton University Initial Radiation Safety Training (for Open-Source Radioisotope Users) at http://www.princeton.edu/~ehs/radtrain/Modules/
Coverpage.htm
.

This site contains a brief overview presentation of damage mechanisms, tissue sensitivity, effects, exposure, risks and prenatal exposures. See also http://www.princeton.edu/~ehs/radsafety.html.


Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity

An online exhibit from the American Institute of Physics celebrating the life and work of Curie.

http://www.aip.org/history/curie/

Perhaps the most remarkable scientific woman of the 19th century, Curie opened up the science of radioactivity, discovering two elements and winning two Nobel Prizes (her daughter won a third Nobel). This site was written with material from biographer Naomi Pasachoff.


The CPEP Particle Adventure

The Contempory Education Physics Project (CPEP) is a non-profit organization of teachers, educators, and physicists around the world. They have produced a number of excellent materials including award-winning charts and websites for teaching physics and cosmology.

http://www.cpepweb.org
/particles.html

This lavish site contains interactive tutorials, animationsand classroom materials describing the standard model of particle physicsand elementary particles.


Plasma Physics & Fusion; The Universe Adventure

The Contempory Education Physics Project (CPEP) also has produced charts, lesson plmaterials and extensive sites describing both Plasma Physics & Fusion, and an up-to-date cosmological site, The Universe Adventure.

http://www.cpepweb.org/

The Universe Adventure includes a discussion of Dark Matter.


The Mechanical Universe and Beyond

Program 51: From Atoms to Quarks. A thirty-minute on-demand streamed physics lecture / animated presentation hosted by Professor David Goodstein of the California Institute of Technology as part of the Annenberg / CPB series The Mechanical Universe and Beyond.

http://www.learner.org/progdesc
/index.html?uid=42

This site requires cable modem (384K) or better speed connection to the internet and free registration with Annenberg / CPB.


Virtual Tokamak

Internet Plasma Physics Education eXperience (IPPEX), Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).

http://ippex.pppl.gov/

To show the principles of magnetically confined fusion, the site has a virtual fusion reactor, called the 'Virtual Tokamak.' Try the Plasma Drift Applet to get a feel for how magnetic fields are used to contain a plasma in a tokamak.



Comments, corrections and suggestions to Dan MacIsaac

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