Web Watch

Carl Mungan, United States Naval Academy
mungan@usna.edu

This issue ends exactly a decade that I have been writing this pair of columns three times a year for the Newsletter. However, it has been a long while since I have received any reader feedback about them. So it is high time to evaluate whether these columns have outlived their usefulness. Please email me your thoughts. Based on the comments I receive (or lack thereof), a decision will be made about whether these columns should be retired.

Undark at https://undark.org/ is a digital magazine devoted to issues at the intersection of science and society.

The American Mathematical Society has a set of educational posters online at http://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/mathmoments.

You can browse Alan Nathan’s site on the physics of baseball at http://baseball.physics.illinois.edu/.

PLOS has a blog at https://blogs.plos.org/scied/ concerning medical science education.

A useful compendium of online tools (such as dictionaries, drawing utilities, graphing calculators, PDF editors, and polling apps) is available at https://www.grammarcheck.net/useful-online-tools/.

Some conceptual and numerical implications of the relativistic rocket equations are presented at http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/Rocket/rocket.html.

Pictures of the Day are often fun. There’s an optics one at http://www.atoptics.co.uk/opod.htm and an earth science one at https://epod.usra.edu/.

Increasing attention on scientific ethics has led to the formation of a searchable database of retracted science articles at http://retractiondatabase.org.

A visual and aural interactive exploration of waveforms is accessible at https://pudding.cool/2018/02/waveforms/.

The American Nuclear Society has an activities webpage for classroom educators at http://nuclearconnect.org/in-the-classroom/for-teachers.

A colorful exploration of airline international flight paths can be accessed at https://multimedia.scmp.com/news/world/article/2165980/flight-paths/.

AIP has put up decades of Melba Phillips correspondence at https://repository.aip.org/islandora/object/nbla:AR2007746.

I recently stumbled across an Indian journal titled Physics Education (not to be confused with IOP’s journal of the same name) that is freely accessible at http://www.physedu.in/.

A formula for generating Pythagorean triples (such as 5,12,13) is discussed at http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Pythag/pythag.html#mnformula.

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