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This 3-D animation is a visualization of the Miller indices (Miller indexes) showing approximately 24 various possible planes. The three intercepts are shown along with the plane notation.

This page is an index to the interactive Java tutorials developed to help students understand topics in electricity and magnetism. Created by Florida State University, the site contains tutorials about concepts such as capacitance, Ohm's Law, and creation of a silicon seascape. The website contains...

Molecular Workbench (MW) is free, open-source software that works to improve the ability of all students to understand fundamental biological phenomena in terms of the interactions of atoms and molecules by enhancing biology courses with guided explorations of powerful atomic and molecular...

This video, from the Laser and Fiber Optics Regional Center, is the fourth of eight lectures in the Introduction to Photonics Video Series for Technologists. This video discusses properties of light. After viewing this lecture, viewers will be able to: understand the nature of optical materials...

In this lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, students will "explore how energy exchanges lead to solid-state phase changes at the macroscale and explore the applications of this nanotechnology." Additionally, students will have the opportunity to examine "various...

Module Description: This module, created by the Center for Nanotechnology Education (Nano-Link), introduces students to the "... technologies that use forces and interactions at the nanoscale to treat water." In this module, students will learn about how the dominant forces that affect...

This video, from the Laser and Fiber Optics Regional Center, is the first of eight lectures in the Introduction to Photonics Video Series for Technologists. This video discusses the nature and basic properties of light. An overview of frequency, wavelength, speed, refraction, and index of...

Toolkit Description:  This NET-225 Nuclear Physics course is from the RCNET Comprehensive Teaching Toolkit: Fundamentals, and is drawn from curriculum taught in the Nuclear Systems Technology program at Midlands Technical College. The program is designed to train nuclear systems technicians to work...

This 298-page Newtonian Physics textbook was created by Benjamin Crowell and is the first book in the Light and Matter series of free introductory physics textbooks. This textbook includes the following chapters: Introduction and Review, Scaling and Order-of-Magnitude Estimates, Motion in One...

This website, provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, includes links to additional resources about fundamental physical constants. Resources include Values of Fundamental Physical Constants, Searchable Bibliography of Fundamental Constants, International System of Units (SI),...