Contact Us

For more information about the Seattle University Department of Physics, please contact

Dr. David Boness,
Chair and Professor,
Department of Physics,
Seattle University,
Seattle, WA 98122

Email: dboness@seattleu.edu

Telephone: 206-296-5940

General Links

• Articles and books: Amazon.com, ECD, Google Scholar, PubMed, SU Bookstore, SU Library, SU Library's SCOPUS, UW Library, UW University Book Store
• Book publishers: Addison-Wesley (Pearson), Cambridge, Dover, Elsevier, W. H. Freeman, Harvard, Oxford, Prentice Hall (Pearson), Princeton, Springer, University Science Books, Wiley, World Scientific, Yale
• Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference works: Bartleby's English Usage, Dictionary.com, Encyclopedia Brittanica, Guide to Punctuation (Larry Trask, U. Sussex), Oxford English Dictionary, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, WolframAlpha 
• Entertainment: Fandango, Internet Movie Database, TicketMaster, Washington Trails Association, Yelp
• Medical information: Group Health HMO, MayoClinic.com, Medline Plus, PubMed
• News and commentary: AP, BBC News, Chronicle of Higher Ed, CNN, The Guardian (UK), Inside Higher Ed, LA Times, NPR, NY Times, PBS, Reuters, Seattle PI, Seattle Times, Slate, Yahoo!
• Science journals and magazines: American Scientist, Discover, Nature, Physics Today, Physics World, PNAS, PLoS, Science, Scientific American
• Science videos and demonstrations: DnaTube, JoVe, LabAction, SciVee, YouTube
• Scientific computation and plotting: Absoft Fortran, Absoft Fortran 95 Examples, Apple-Science, Apple Xgrid, gfortran wiki (start here for gfortran info), Fortran 90 courses (U Liverpool), Fortran Resources (PSU),  HPC on OS X (includes Fortran info), Igor Pro, gnuplot, Graphviz, LabVIEW, Mac OS X for Astrophysicists, MacResearch.org, Mathematica, MATLAB, NCSA, Perl.com, Python.org
• Scientific typesetting: CTAN (TeX), LaTeX project site, MacTeX, MathML, MathType, PCTeX, TeX Catalogue, TeX on Mac OS X, TeXShop
• Search, Directories, Portals, Maps, and Travel: About.com, Ask.com, Bing (Microsoft), Expedia, Google, Google Earth, Google Maps, Intute, (Microsoft) Live Maps, (Microsoft) Live Search, Open Directory Project, Yahoo!
• Undergraduate Science: Council on Undergraduate Research, Project Kaleidoscope

Physics Links

• Applets: U. of Colorado PhET Simulations, Paul Falstad's Java Applets, Walter Fendt's Java Applets, Fowler's Physics Applets, Open Source Physics, U. of Oregon VLAB, U. of Vienna VirtualLabs, Virtual Physics Laboratory
• Articles and preprints: ADS, arXiv preprint server, ECD, MIT Net Advance of Physics, SU Library Physics Subject Guide
• Blogs and forums: Cosmic Variance, Dynamics of Cats, Incoherently Scattered Ponderings, Interactions Blog Watch, Life as a Physicist, Mixed States, Nanoscale Views, Physics Forums, Physics Post, ScienceBlogs, Uncertain Principles
• Education: Educational physics posters, Exploring the Science of Light (OSA), How Things Work (Lou Bloomfield), Hyperphysics, Particle physics education sites, Phys. Sci. Resource Center (AAPT), Physics of snowflakes, String Theory
• Equipment vendors: Agilent, American 3B Scientific, B+K Precision, Berkeley Nucleonics, Daedalon, Klinger, Laser Surplus, National Instruments, New Focus, Newport, Ortec, PASCO, Physics Academic Software, PHYWE, Sargent-Welch, Princeton Instruments, TeachSpin, Tektronix, TEL-ATOMIC, TestEquity, ThomasNet, Thorlabs, TSI, Vernier
• Employment and careers: AIP Statistics, Google Physics > Employment, Jobs in Physics and Astronomy
• Grad school information: GRE exams (ETS)
• History: AIP Center for the History of Physics, APS A Century of Physics, Neils Bohr Archive, Electricity and Magnetism Chronology, History of Physics Links (MIT), Instruments for Natural Philosophy (Thomas Greenslade, Jr.), Symnmetry Timeline, Thermo and Stat Mech Chronology
• Humor: Abstruse Goose, Dancing anthropocentric quarks, LHC Rap, Museum of Unworkable Devices, Physics songs, xkcd
• Laboratories and collaborations: ALICE, ANL, ATLAS, BaBar, Belle, BNL, BRAHMS, CDF, CERN, CMS, D0, DESY, Fermilab, JLab, KEK, LANL, LBNL, LHC, LHCb, LIGO, LLNL, PHENIX, PHOBOS, RHIC, SLAC, STAR, US-LHC
• News: AAPT News, AIP Physics News Update, CERN Courier, Interactions.org particle physics news
• Portals and images: APS physics central, Biological Physics Links (Hagen at U. Fla.), Eric Weisstein's World of Physics, Google Physics links, Intute-Physics, Physics (Highlighting APS-published research), Physics Central (APS), PhysLink, PhysNet, Wikipedia Portal:Physics, Yahoo directory: Science (and math)
• Professional societies: American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), American Institute of Physics (AIP), American Physical Society (APS)
• Publications: AJP, ApplPhysLett, arXiv.org e-prints, BulletinAtomicScientists, Chaos, ChaosSolitonsFractals, ClassQGrav, CommNonlinSciNumSim, CompPhysComm, CompSciDisc, CompSciEng, EJP, HighEnDensPhys, IOP Journals, JApplPhys, JChemPhys, JCompPhys, JCosmAstropartPhys, JFluidMech, JMathPhys, JOptSocAmA, JOptSocAmB, JOptA, JPhysA, JPhysB, JPhysChemSolids, JPhysCM, JPhysD, JPhysG, JStatMech, Nature, NewJPhys, Nonlinearity, NuclearPhysA, NuclearPhysB, OpticsComm, PhilTransRoySocA, PhysicaA, PhysicaB, PhysicaC, PhysicaD, PhysicaE, PhysRevA, PhysRevB, PhysRevC, PhysRevD, PhysRevE, PhysRevLett, PhysLettA, PhysLettB, PhysEducation, PhysFluids, PhysLifeRev, PhysPlasmas, PhysEarthPlanetInter, PhysReports, Physics Today, Physics Uspekhi, Physics World, ProcRoySocA, ProgPartNuclPhys, RepProgPhys, RevModPhys, RevSciInstr, Science, SolidStateComm, StudiesHistPhilModPhys, ThePhysTeacher
• Reference: Atomic Spectral Lines (NIST), The Particle Adventure, Particle Data Group, Physical Reference Data (NIST), Physics glossary, Protein Data Bank, Time, Official (USNO), Web Elements, WolframAlpha 
• Seattle U: Angel SU Course Websites, Seattle University, Seattle University Physics Department, SU Library, SU Online Course Schedules (SU login needed)
• Seminars and colloquia: SU Physics, UW Astronomy, UW Atmospheric Sciences, UW Earth and Space Sciences, UW Physics, UW University Week
• Student organizations: Society of Physics Students (National),
• Textbooks: Bennett et al., Giancoli (algebra-based), Giancoli (calculus-based), Griffiths (EM), Griffiths (QM), Halliday, Resnick, and Krane (Vol. 1), Halliday, Resnick, and Krane (Vol. 2), Henley and Garcia, Kittel, Rhodes, Schroeder, F. W. Taylor (Elementary Climate Physics), J. R. Taylor (Classical Mechanics), Tipler and Llewellyn
• Tutorials: The Particle Adventure, MIT Net Advance of Physics, Physics 2000, The Official String Theory Site, Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial, Non-majors special relativity introduction

Astronomy and Geophysics Links

• Articles and preprints: SU Library Physics Subject Guide, Astrophysics Data System abstract service, arXiv preprint server, UW Astro Journals and Desktop Tools
• Blogs: Dot Earth, RealClimate (Climate science from climate scientists)
• Earthquake information: Caltech Seismological Lab, Pacific Northwest earthquake information
• Education: Global Warming Art, JPL Solar System Simulator, The Nine Planets, Solar system scale calculator, Volcanic Eruptions (Smithsonian)
• History: The Discovery of Global Warming, by Spencer Weart
• Observatories and institutes: Apache Point Observatory, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Keck Observatory, Kepler Space Telescope, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Large Binocular Telescope, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Southern African Large Telescope, Space Telescope Science Institute
• Portals and images: Astronomy Resources From STSI, Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD), Intute-Astronomy, Intute-Earth Sciences, Planetary Photojournal (NASA, JPL), Space.com, Wikipedia Portal:Astronomy
• Professional societies: American Astronomical Society (AAS), American Geophysical Union (AGU), European Geosciences Union (EGU)
• Publications: AGU Journals, AMS Journals, arXiv.org e-prints, AJ, ApJ, AstronAstrophys, AtmosChemPhys, ClimateChange, GRL, JAerosolSci, JGR (Atmospheres), JGR (Biogeosciences), JGR (Earth Surface), JGR (Oceans), JGR (Planets), JGR (Solid Earth), JGR (Space Physics), JQuantSpectroscRadiatTransfer, MNRAS, Nature Geoscience, PEPI, PhysChemMinerals, RevGeophys, Treatise on Geophysics (Elsevier book series)
• Reference: Earth Fact Sheet, Global Seismic Monitor (IRIS), National Geophysics Data Center, Time, Official (USNO), Treatise on Geophysics (Elsevier book series), WolframAlpha 
• Seattle U: Seattle University, Seattle University Physics Department, SU Library
• Seminars and colloquia: SU Physics, UW Astronomy, UW Atmospheric Sciences, UW Earth and Space Sciences, UW Physics, UW University Week
• Space missions: Cassini, CMB Cosmology Observations, ESA Missions, Earth Observing System (NASA), JPL Missions, NASA Missions, Planck, WMAP
• Tutorials: NASA's Imagine the Universe, Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial, The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System

More Links

• Chemistry: Chemistry Index, Chemical Achievers (history), Intute-Chemistry, MathMol molecular modeling, Web Elements, Wikipedia Portal:Chemistry, WolframAlpha 
• Math: Intute-Mathematics, Mathematica online integrator, MathWorld (at Wolfram Research), Mega-Math (from LANL), Special Functions (at Wolfram Research), Wikipedia Portal:Mathematics, WolframAlpha 

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