Mr Warner's Cool Science

Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein

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Professional Resources

An incredible wealth of resources await you at PhysLink The Ultimate Physics Resource, a guide to physics on the Web. Also, try PhysicsWeb by the Institute of Physics Publishing.

General Physics Ed; Curriculum

There's great stuff at Syracuse University Physics Department's Models and Simulations page.
The Physics 2000 website by the University of Colorado at Boulder is an interactive journey through modern physics.

Atom and Atomic Structure

Study of the atom begins at The Particle Adventure where there's an interactive tour of the atom and tools of discovery. Also try The Discovery of the Electron page. Then visit a Tevatron to learn about matter and energy at The Fermilab.

Forces and Motion

The forces behind our favorite rides are explained at Amusement Park Physics.

You can see 300 pages of Galileo's notes on motion at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Check out the distance/time data on Houston's Real-Time Traffic Map.

There's an awesome site on the physics of baseball called the Batting Cage that sports fans won't want to miss!

Forces in Fluids; Flight and Aeronautics

The history of ballooning is explained in detail at The History of Ballooning page. Find out more at this Swedish The Winged Heart ballooning page.

Gravity

Study microgravity and its affects on Microgravity.com.

Light and Optics

Learn about light at the How Far Does Light Go project page, or Optics for Kids. A great discussion of the electromagnetic spectrum, wavelengths, is found at Amazing Space. Optical illusions are fun to study at Illusionworks.

Electricity

Many links for information and things to do are found at the Nikola Tesla Page, and there's even a Nikola Tesla Museum.

Sound

Learn everything from what sound is to how humans perceive it at The Soundary.

Ask an Expert or Find Out

There's the How Things Work homepage and HowStuffWorks.com.