With all the buzz around the Large Hadron Collider experiment which will fire up today, I thought I'd share a few links that you could share with your students as well to understand this huge, and hugely important, science experiment that we will be witness to.

If you want to get an idea of what the (Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment is all about - I've found this basic intro on Alice, CMS, Altas, LHCb and read more

A very gook link that provides lots of useful Physics flash animations based on Mechanics, Optics, Electricity & Magnetism, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity etc.............

To view flash animation you require adobe flash player. You can download that from these links

http://cid-3772119b17a9640e.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Standalone_Flash_Player_9.exe

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash 

This post is inspired by Varni's post on the National Science Day celebrations in her school, and her son's exhibit which was shaped by ideas from Arvind Gupta's "Toys from Trash". read more

[A Note from the Administrator: This was posted as an elog by member kapil1312. This is a good resource that can be used by students and teachers of Physics, Chemistry and Maths. read more

The next time you're planning an educational trip for your students, consider Auroville.

Auroville, near Pondicherry, "is a place in south India where, for 38 years now, an increasing number of people from all over the world have been quietly and painstakingly working on the construction of a new township, a new way of living, a new way of being. read more