Skip to Main Content

IB Recommended Reading: Physics

These links should be useful for many topics

Some of the Physics books available in the LIBRARY

Suspended in Language

A biography of twentieth-century Danish physicist Niels Bohr, the father of quantum mechanics, in comic-book format.

Physics for the IB Diploma

A comprehensive physics textbook that follows the entire International Baccalaureate syllabus, including all the options, at both the Standard and Higher Level, featuring important laws, definitions, results, and significant formulae, answers to end-of-chapter questions, supplementary materials, and a glossary of key terms.

God and the New Physics

Examines the role that twentieth-century findings in physics can play in learning about God, the Creation, and other religious topics.

50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

An introduction to modern physics, featuring essays that explain fifty historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world, including Newton's laws of motion, absolute zero, Doppler effect, superconductivity, nuclear fusion, and cosmic inflation.

Turning the World Inside Out and 174 Other Simple Physics Demonstrations

Collection of physics demonstrations costing very little to produce accompanied by theoretical background.

Problems and Solutions in Quantum Chemistry and Physics

Provides an overview of the basic theories of quantum chemistry and physics, with twenty problems and solutions for each theory and topic.

The Quest for Unity

Examines the attempts to scientists throughout history to discover the underlying unity of the universe.

Warped Passages

Examines the world of warped, hidden dimensions that impact everything in the universe, explains how scientists are trying to prove the existence of these dimensions, and explores many unanswered questions related to the concept.

Large Ions

Contains six articles in which the authors investigate aspects of the production of large ions, their detection, and their structural analysis by collision induced processes on surfaces and with molecules

Energy Projects for Young Scientists

Instructions for a variety of projects and experiments demonstrating basic concepts of energy, work, and power, including thermal, electrical, and solar energy, energy of motion and position, and energy conservation.

The New Quantum Universe

Statics and Dynamics - Electricity and Magnetism

Physics -- Study guides -- Static -- Magnetism -- Teaching resources.

Electrified Sheep

Describes a variety of bizarre scientific and sociological experiments, including an electrified sheep, self surgeries, how to survive an atomic bomb, and more.

Insurmountable Risks

Describes the risks involved in using nuclear power to eliminate carbon dioxide emissions, including potentially catastrophic accidents, and discusses alternative energy solutions.

What Is Humanity's Greatest Challenge?

Collects eleven essays that examine and debate issues facing humanity, discussing overpopulation, global hunger, the oil supply crisis, global warming, nuclear proliferation, and poverty.

The End of the Certain World

Presents a biography of Max Born, providing an examination of the life and work of the Nobel Prize winning physicist who discovered quantum theory and was mentor to the scientists who developers of the atomic bomb.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Draws from the history of human knowledge about the universe to tell the universe and humanity's story, presenting a scientific chronicle of life on Earth stretching from the Big Bang to the rise of "Homo sapiens," and discusses extinction.

Websites for further study and research

More websites from your teacher:

http://www.physics.org/ 

https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols 

https://www.youtube.com/user/DeepSkyVideos/videos 

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/ 

https://www.youtube.com/user/physicsclassroomLIVE/videos 

Listen/Watch:

‘The Infinite Monkey Cage’ – BBC Podcasts 

‘The Wonders of the Universe’ – BBC documentary by Brian Cox 

‘Horizon’ documentaries on the BBC 

TED talks about Physics topics

Getting your Scientific research Published....

How amazing would it be for you to publish your Extended Essay in a Scientific Journal! Below are various links to Journals that specialise in Youth science research and other sites to help you write and analyse published journal articles.