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Hyperphysics - Electron Capture

Description of radioactive process of electron capture with good links to other sites.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuclear/radact2.html

Free Electron Laser

Many features of the dynamics of free electron lasers can be understood using a simple pendulum model. This site uses JAVA applets to demonstrate this.

http://webphysics.davidson.edu/applets/FELPart/FelOde.html

Electron Spin

An introduction to electron spin with links of to other topics such as fine structure.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/spin.html#c1

Electron Interference

A well described page explaining electron interference. There is a very good multimedia example of this effect - showing the interference pattern produced by firing electrons through two slits.

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/schroedinger/two-slit3.html

Electron Volt

A convenient energy unit, particularly for atomic and nuclear processes, is the energy given to an electron by accelerating it through 1 volt of electric potential difference.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/ev.html#c1

The Discovery of the Electron

An illustrated history of J.J.Thomson's discovery of the electron. There is a brief story of Thomson's life, some further developments and links to other web sites and relevant reading.

http://www.aip.org/history/electron/jjhome.htm

Autobiography of Ernst Ruska

Ernst Ruska (1906 - 1988) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1986 for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope.