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Refraction and Reflection

Java applet demonstrating Snell's law showing both reflected and refracted light rays.

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http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp//kap25/Snell/app.htm

The science of nondestructive testing

A great resource covering the basics of electricity, magnetism, X-rays and sound.

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http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/HighSchool/highschool.htm

Microworlds

A web site from the Advanced Light Source, a device that uses X-rays to explore the world of atoms. Aimed at a variety of levels.

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http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/Contents/Contents.html

Cosmicopia - space science

A wealth of info about the sun, the earth's magnetosphere, space weather, cosmic rays, solar wind etc

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http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Cool Cosmos - Revealing the Universe in All of its Light!

Wonderful resource about observing the universe through radio,infra-red, visible, ultra-violet and gamma-rays.

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http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/

Max Theodor Felix von Laue

Biography of Max von Laue (1879 -1960), who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays on crystals.

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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1914/laue-bio.html

Electromagnetic Spectrum

A range of resources on the electromagnetic spectrum and the different types of electromagnectic wave, from radio waves to gamma rays.

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http://www.darvill.clara.net/emag/index.htm

Einstein's Legacy Applets

Applets demonstrating X-rays, CAT scans, Microwave ovens, LASERs, TV screens and Laptop screens all from the physics 2000 website

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http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets_EL.html

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937) greatest contribution to physics were his investigations into the scattering of alpha rays and the nature of the inner structure of the atom.

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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1908/rutherford-bio.html

Crooke's tube: cathode rays

An interactive demonstration of the Crooke's tube experiment, with a brief, but accurate explanation. This is great for revision, or for teaching if you do not have access to the real apparatus.

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http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/crookestube/
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