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How Internet Infrastructure Works

A brief description of how Internet Infrastructure works, covering domain name servers, network access points and backbones. From HowStuffWorks.com.

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http://www.howstuffworks.com/internet-infrastructure.htm

Orbit Xplorer

Orbit simulator software for school and college students and teachers. The orbit simulator allows laboratory exercises on gravitational physics, elliptical orbits, double stars, escape velocity, ...

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http://www.ottisoft.com/orbit_x.htm

Celestial Sphere

The stars can be imagined to be points of light on a sphere which rotates about the Earth. Projecting the Earth's poles and equator out onto this imaginary sphere provides a framework for celestial ...

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/eclip.html#c3

How cameras work

Explains the optical principles and technology behind cameras (SLR and point-and-shoot) and photography. From HowStuffWorks.com.

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

A weekly foray into the latest news and topics from the world of the paranormal, fringe science, and controversial claims from a scientific point of view.

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http://www.theskepticsguide.org/

The First Men on the Moon: Apollo 11

Relive the first moon landing from NASA's point of view including images and recordings of what people were saying.

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OHMZONE Circuit builder

Create a circuit by dragging components (battery, bulbs, wires, resistors, voltmeter, ammeter) on to a circuit board. You can use the ammeter and voltmeter to check the current and voltage at ...

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http://www.article19.com/shockwave/oz.htm

Pendulum Java Applet

The animation is of a simple pendulum. It's length, the acceleration due to gravity and the starting point of the oscillation can be changed.

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http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?topic=11

The Science of Boiling an Egg

How to boil an egg, from a physicist's point of view. Includes an equation to calculate the time required to boil a (spherical and homogeneous) egg, and other interesting facts about eggs.

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http://newton.ex.ac.uk/teaching/CDHW/egg/

Eight Hakase - synchrotron science

This series of cartoons about Japan's SPring-8 synchrotron are an excellent starting point for learning all the basics of synchrotron radiation and the research done using it.

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http://www.spring8.or.jp/en/kids/8hakase/topic001.html
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