A simple spectroscope can be built from a CD and a cereal box. Here's how.

Richard Evelyn Byrd's historic flight to the South Pole 75 years ago this month laid the groundwork for today's United States Antarctic Program, the nation's massive research enterprise on the southernmost continent. In honor of Byrd's accomplishment, the National Science Foundation (NSF) today launched a commemorative Web site that chronicles how aircraft make scientific research in the polar regions possible and describes some of the cutting-edge discoveries made because of the logistics support aircraft provide.

The Advanced Quantum Mechanics course (Ph195c) at CalTech has a website with links to download the lecture notes in PDF format. These form a comprehensive course on quantum mechanics, and are ideal for someone who has already done a basic course on quantum mechanics. Topics to be covered include wave functions and inifinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, position and momentum operators, interpretation of the wave function, the double-slit experiment, the harmonic oscillator, sectionally constant potentials in 1D, periodic potentials in 1D, quantum theory of angular momentum, symmetries and group respresentation theory in QM. The course is taught by Hideo Mabuchi, Associate Professor of Physics at CalTech.

The Edwards Aquifer of central Texas is a critical resource that provides drinking water and recreation for residents. Local caves in the aquifer are a common fieldtrip destination for K-12 classes. We will augment teaching materials and add creative, inquiry-based activities by utilizing the UT facultys long-term cave and karst research projects. There is a wealth of extensive knowledge about central Texas caves, karst, and the Edwards Aquifer!

This website represents over 25 years of experience capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research. A stock video library provides producers with a range of subjects, and includes both live recording and computer animation. A variety of immune cells, bacteria, parasites, and aquatic organisms are available for licensing for educational, broadcast, and commercial use.

An interactive game simulating cell behavior based on four simple rules: lonliness, overcrowding, reproduction, and statis.

Challenger Center for Space Science Education uses students natural enthusiasm for space to create innovative learning experiences for imaginative young minds. By transforming the way teachers teach and students learn, Challenger Center is creating a new generation of explorers.

ChemCases.com is a series of curriculum units that link responsible decision making in product development with chemical principles taught in General Chemistry. Each ChemCases.com unit offers you a 50-minute lesson relating chemistry to responsible decision making in our new century. We expect ChemCases.com curriculum supplements will lead interested students toward the sciences, medicine, pharmacy and engineering. Alcohol, Chemistry and You. Gatorade. NutraSweet. Silicones. Nuclear Chemistry and the Community. Cisplatin and Cancer. Refrigerants for the 21st Century. Olestra. Drug Pathways and Chemical Concepts. Fuels and Society -- Chemistry and History of Automotive Fuels. Sixty Years of Tetraethyllead. How Lead was Finally Removed from Gasoline Fuel Cells.

This resource archive is produced under the auspices of the Journal of Chemical Education Online. We are the source for the Journal's printed "Buyer's Guide", which appears annually with the April issue. The Resource Shelf contains hyperlinks to nearly all of the publishers who maintain Web pages, with links to publishers' pages devoted to individual titles. When they are available, we include citations and links to reviews. In "Hal's Picks of the Month", you will find recommendations of books and recent articles for teachers of chemistry and related sciences. There is an Index that covers the "Picks" since the feature began in 1995. "Journals for Chemical Educators" contains information about all those journals you should be reading, and hyperlinks to those who maintain Web pages. The coverage of software has been expanded to include course management software, graphing applications, and scientific mathematical processors. We also have information about molecular models and laboratory notebooks.

ChemSpy.com links you to comprehensive tutorials in the field of chemistry and chemical engineering. Subjects include thermodynamics, atomic structure, nomenclature, organic chemistry, spectroscopy, acids and basis, chromatography, electronic structure, and more.

The website of the American Chemical Society. Information for students and educators at all grade levels (k-12 and university) and continuing education.

Interactive periodic table of the elements on the web. See also the WebElements Scholar edition for students.

ChemSpy.com is a convenient tool for Professionals, scientists as well as Students to speed up their chemistry search on the world wide web. We provide a number of useful services for free.

Welcome to the Computational Geometry Pages, a (hopefully) comprehensive directory of computational geometry resources both on and off the Internet. Contributions and suggestions from the community are always welcome!

CPEP is a non-profit organization of teachers, educators, and physicists located around the world. CPEP materials present the current understanding of the fundamental nature of matter and energy, incorporating the major research findings of recent years. During the last ten years, CPEP has distributed more than 200,000 copies of its charts and other products.