Contact Us

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

Teresa Beery Administrative Assistant
Bannan 209
(206) 296-5940
beeryt@seattleu.edu 

Dr. David Boness Chair and Professor 
Bannan 308
(206) 296-5924
dboness@seattleu.edu

Seattle University
Department of Physics
901 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122

Fax: (206) 296-6266

General Links

• Articles and books: Amazon.com, ECD, Google Scholar, ISI Journal Citation Reports, 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, National Academies Press, Oxford, Pearson, 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), NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (NIST DLMF), Oxford English Dictionary, Perseus Project - Tufts (Greek, Roman, etc. texts), Wikipedia, Wiktionary, WolframAlpha, Yale Digital Commons (Yale museum collections online) 
• Entertainment: Fandango, Internet Movie Database, TicketMaster, Washington Trails Association, Yelp  
• Medical information: Group Health HMO, MayoClinic.com, Medical Physics (journal site), 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!  
• Open courseware and presentations: Academic Earth (open courseware consolidator from top universities), webcast.berkeley, MIT OpenCourseWare, Stanford on YouTube, Open Yale Courses 
• Presentation advice and info: Better Posters blog, PosterSession.com, Poster tutorial from MakeSigns.com, SciPosters from MakeSigns.com, Research poster printing from PosterSession.com 
• 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, CENCO, 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: AIP GradSchoolShopper portal (for physics and related programs), 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.), Symmetry 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), Physics Societies Around the World (U. of Waterloo)  
• 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, GJI, 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 Astrobiology, 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),  NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (NIST DLMF), Special Functions (at Wolfram Research), Wikipedia Portal:Mathematics, WolframAlpha 

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