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How Crash Testing Works

A brief description of how car crash tests and crash test dummies work. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/crash-test.htm

The World of Nuclear Energy

An introduction to nuclear medicine, nuclear reactors, nuclear physics, nuclear power, nuclear waste and war. Includes movie clips of the effects of nuclear detonation.

http://library.thinkquest.org/25916/main_root_index.html

Articles on fossil fuels, hydroelectric, wind, solar and nuclear power. Each is followed by an online multiple choice test. There is some worthwhile material in this site and it would be especially ...

http://library.thinkquest.org/17531/home.html

Rotational Motion - Self Test

A short series of self-test questions on torque, moment of inertia, and angular acceleration

http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/torque/Q.torque.quizzes.html

The ABC of Nuclear Science

A well presented and comprehensive introduction to nuclear science. Nuclear structure, Antimatter, decay, Cosmic rays, etc. Excellent graphics

http://www.lbl.gov/abc/Basic.html

What happens during a nuclear meltdown?

This nuclear primer explains what meltdown means, and how the situation at Fukushima compares with past nuclear accidents.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nuclear-energy-primer

Nuclear Reaction: Why do Americans fear nuclear power?

Site contains arguments for and against Nuclear Power from an American and international perspective.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/

Office of Nuclear Physics

A site to inform readers of the progress of nuclear physics in a wide range of fields. Up to date information on current research for scientists in the nuclear community.