ATOMIC PHYSICS

Discovery of the Electron
Experiments by J.J. Thomson in 1897 led to a look inside the atom and the discovery of a fundamental building block of matter.
www.aip.org/history/electron

You Try It: Atom Builder
Science Odyssey project that lets users build a carbon atom particle by particle.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/atom

HowStuffWorks: Atoms
Explains what atoms are, what they're made up of, and more.
www.howstuffworks.com/atom.htm

All About Atoms
Illustrated introduction to the basic building blocks of matter that make up everyday objects.
www.education.jlab.org/atomtour

Plasma-Gate: Atomic Physics on the Internet
List of atomic physics resources.
www.plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/API.html

Plasma-Gate: Databases for Atomic and Plasma Physics www.plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/DBfAPP.html

Zeitschrift für Physik D: Atoms, Molecules and Clusters
Journal dedicated to the study of atoms and molecules.
www.link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00460

Plasma-Gate: Jobs in Atomic and Plasma Physics
Features job announcements for Ph.D. and postdoctoral positions.
www.plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Jobs.html

Single-Configuration Radial Wavefunction Calculator
HTML version of Robert Cowan's atomic structure application package that calculates single-configuration radial wavefunctions for a spherically symmetrized atom via approximations to the Hartree-Fock method.
www.plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/~fnralch/rcn.html

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Cavity QED Microlaser
Experiment under the direction of its inventors, Kyungwon An and Michael S. Feld, at the Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory.
www.web.mit.edu/minwah/www/sal.html

Primer on Electron-Atom Collisions
Adapted from C.C. Lin's 1996 Will Allis Prize Talk.
www.raptor.physics.wisc.edu/talk/index.htm

Chart of Interactions
Six quarks, six leptons and four interactions only?www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/7386/chart.htm

Java Clebsch-Gordan Coefficient Calculator
Evaluates Clebsch-Gordan coefficients which arise in the theory of angular momentum in quantum mechanics.
www.ph.surrey.ac.uk/~phs3ps/cgjava.html

ATOMS: Simulated Physics Using Virtual Atoms
Series of Java applets.
www.atoms.alife.co.uk