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The Atmosphere

A collection of fun and interesting practicals all related to the atmosphere and weather, covering temperature, density, and pressure

http://wings.avkids.com/Curriculums/Atmosphere/

How Thermometers Work

A brief description of how Thermometers measure temperature from HowStuffWorks.com.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/therm.htm

This site compiles all sorts of facts and figures, ranging from ordinary to downright bizarre. So whether you want to find out the best temperature for brewing coffee or the diameter of a snowflake, ...

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/

Arizona - Beat the heat

A good interactive game from the Arizona Science Center that uses Shockwave to let you build your own house to be the right temperature for all seasons.

http://www.tryscience.org/fieldtrips/fieldtrip_shockwave.html?arizona_01

Ising applet

Ising is a simple model of magnetism. It simulates a ferromagnet using two-dimensional array of interacting spins at fixed temperature and magnetic field.

http://webphysics.davidson.edu/applets/ising/default.html

Keplerâ€™s Tally of Planets

A really interesting data visualisation of all the planets Kepler has found, complete with information about their size, temperature, and distance and period of orbit.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/space/keplers-tally-of-planets.html

How is BEC made?

It took 70 years to realise Einstein's concept of Bose-Einstein condensation in a gas. It was first accomplished by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman in 1995. They did it by cooling atoms to a much lower ...

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/how_its_made.html

Measurements on a Superconductor

Graph of resistance against temperature for YBCO, and two short movies of a magnet levitating above a superconductor. Great fun to see the movies - understanding how this happens is more challenging