Books, Applets & Videos

Books for Further Information

• A Thin Cosmic Rain: Particles from Outer Space, by Michael Friedlander
• Cosmic Bullets: High Energy Particles in Astrophysics, by Roger Clay & Bruce Dawson
• The Elegant Universe, by Richard Greene
• Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, by Frank Close

Short Videos & Interviews

• University of Utah's Fly's Eye and HiRes cosmic ray detectors: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Nobel prize-winner Dr. George Smoot explains the Big Bang with help from the University of California Band!

• 2008 interview with particle physicist, Dr. Ayana Holloway of the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics. She talks about why she decided to be a physicist and why pure scientific research, like that at the Large Hadron Collider, is important.

• LHC first collisions on March 30th
• Fun with liquid nitrogen from Jefferson Labs!
• The Sun in HD from the Solar Dynamics Explorer

Longer Videos

• From a series called Saturday Morning Physics from the University of Michigan; it has some really good demonstrations, but is about 60 min.

• Space Storms, from NovaScienceNow, explains aurora and their link with cosmic rays (about 10 min)

Cool applets and simulations

• An applet showing the life cycle of a solar-type star
• Cosmic ray shower simulation
• Einstein's Big Idea
• Models of the Hydrogen Atom
• Rutherford scattering
• Charged particle in a magnetic field (the one Dr. Forbes showed)
• Charges and fields
• Linear accelerator applet (the one Dr. Aleks showed)