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Links to Resources on Cosmic Rays for Teachers and Students |
This is intended as a resource page for teachers and students. If you have any links that you would like to add, please contact Heather Zorn (hzorn@u.washington.edu) or Jeffrey Wilkes (wilkes@u.washington.edu). Also, if you would like to review one of the books, articles, experiments or websites, please send us your review and we will post it on this site.
Last updated: 05/09/2001
Informational Websites on Cosmic Rays
Build Your Own Cosmic Ray Detector
Experiments and Interactive websites
Informational Websites on Cosmic Rays
Cosmic rays, the most energetic particles in the universe, by J.W. Cronin, Reviews of Modern Physics, 71:S165-S172 (March 1999).
A Thin Cosmic Rain: Particles from Outer Space, by Michael W. Friedlander (Harvard University Press, 2000). This book is for the general audience.
Cosmic Rays, by Michael W. Friedlander (Harvard University Press, 1989). An earlier version of the above book. Again, this is meant for a general audience.
Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics, by Tom Gaisser (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991). This book is at a higher level and is directed toward graduate students and researchers.
Build Your Own Cosmic Ray Detector
Experiments and Interactive websites