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Physics & Engineering

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Academic Earth - Physics Lectures

  • Provides videotaped lectures from the 'world's top scholars'.

Animations for Physics and Astronomy: Penn State Schuylkill

  • A brilliant site that demonstrates the properties of physics in short video files (no audio). Videos require either Windows Media Player or QuickTime Video player (free to download). Presented by Dr.'s Michael Gallis and Ping Wang. Note the navigation on the left menu bar.

American Institute of Physics

  • Online resources for the history of physics.

eFunda

  • Covers the basics such as formulas and standards used in many college courses.

Khan Academy Physics

  • High-quality practice exercises to help you master physics concepts.

NASA Image and Video Library 

  • NASA has extensive image and video galleries online, including historic images, current missions, astronomy pictures, Earth images and ways to search for NASA images. Generally, each mission and program has a video and image collection on the topic page. For example, Space Station videos can be found at here Content can also be found on NASA's extensive social media channels.

The Physics Nucleus

  • Info on physics internships, clubs, or research experiences.

Physics Flash Animations

  • From Professor David Harrison from the University of Toronto, these short videos demonstrate many of the common concepts from the major content areas of physics.

Engineering.com

  • "Video tutorials on engineering and its application, explanation of concepts, principles, software tutorials, video shows on interesting discussions... and articles on electronics, 3D printing, software designing, games, puzzles and downloadable material in resource section and library."

Stanford Engineering Everywhere

  • "Stanford Engineering Everywhere is a free resource designed to provide students across the U.S. with access to some of the courses and tools used by Stanford undergraduates to master the basics of computing, artificial intelligence and electrical engineering. These materials are also available to educators for use in classroom settings and are covered under a Creative Commons license that ensures they are freely accessible to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection."

Interesting Engineering

  • "The website is run by a senior professor and has section where you can send your problems and doubts related to engineering for which solutions are provided. You can see blogs on engineering notes, research and other tutorials on interesting engineering stuff."

Arduino

  • “open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software.” 

MIT OpenCourseWare

  • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides free online access to teaching materials for nearly all of its courses, allowing students and teachers to enjoy unrestricted access to these resources. 

W3Schools

  • w3schools.com offers easy-to-understand examples and in-depth tutorials on AJAX, SQL, ASP, CSS, JavaScript and HTML markup code. 

Codecademy

  • "One of the most innovative educational sites in the computer science field, Codecademy offers two tiers of support for students interested in learning to code on a professional level. Self-directed study and basic coursework is available for free through the website." 

Engineer Girl

  • This is a site as a career guide for women engineers.

Efunda

  • "Efunda has collection of all the formulae and important concepts for engineers... Basic concepts and definitions are very well explained under processes section. Another best thing is the calculator section that is an online tool for calculation of integral, functions and many more."