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How IP Telephony Works

A brief description of how IP Telephony works, including the software that make low cost calls possible. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com.

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http://www.howstuffworks.com/ip-telephony.htm

Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes

Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes (1853 - 1916) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1913 for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led to the production of liquid helium.

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http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1913/onnes-bio.html

Sir John Cockcroft

Sir John Cockcroft was interested in the production of intense magnetic fields and low temperatures. Both he and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951.

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http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1951/cockcroft-bio.html

Edward Mills Purcell

Edward Mills Purcell (1911 - 1997) worked in the field of nuclear magnetism, with particular interest in relaxation phenomena, related problems of molecular structure, measurement of atomic ...

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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1952/purcell-bio.html

Infrasound

Brief information from the Wikipedia free encyclopedia on this low frequency sound.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound

How the Sun Works

An excellent brief description of how the Sun functions which starts at a low level and slowly progresses. Part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com. A very good informative site.

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

An online exhibit and a set of activities to do with light and shadows. An explanation of how images are formed when light passes through a hole. Fairly low level physics but with general interest ...

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http://www.exploratorium.edu/light_walk/

About Superconductivity

Metals are good conductors of electric current. That is, they have very low electrical resistance, but this resistance is not zero. Early in the last century, however, a Dutch physicist discovered ...

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http://www.physicscentral.com/action/action-01-3.html