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[Xyo II]

Nice biology links, they have been added. And I will now have quality ebooks for my TI-89 titanium :thumbsup: Thanks goes to the moderators, now I don't have to search for this thread!

 

[davesaudio]

excellent electric and electronic tutorial/lesson

http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/

suspect there is much more in ibiblio - just have not got that far...
D

 

[cker]

Arxiv.org - Open access to 377,889 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology

 

[Xyo II]

I'm not sure why this isn't a sticky anymore, but I will update it nonetheless.

 

[DrPizza]

Just thought I'd bump this with a tip:

On google, if you need to do a conversion, type something like:

45.67 miles = ? cm

And, it'll do the conversion for you. No need for a special website.

 

[Xyo II]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Just thought I'd bump this with a tip:

On google, if you need to do a conversion, type something like:

45.67 miles = ? cm

And, it'll do the conversion for you. No need for a special website.

And along with that, google features

 

[Susquehannock]

Engineering ~ http://www.engineersedge.com/

Very useful for all sorts of specs ... some good calculators too.

 

[sciencewhiz]

knovel.com

 

[irishScott]

For your engineering supply needs:

http://www.globalspec.com/

 

[theeedude]

USPTO patent search:
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
MIT open courseware:
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

 

[Xyo II]

Good links, it has been updated!

 

[patentman]

Here is a another link for the list. Patents are a great place to look for technical information.

http://www.google.com/patents

 

[Xyo II]

Originally posted by: patentman
Here is a another link for the list. Patents are a great place to look for technical information.

http://www.google.com/patents

I added it next to the gov patent search site, thanks for the link!

 

[Ice Czar]

very surprised searchlores isnt linked here somewhere

http://www.searchlores.org/

a very "opaque" site, by design

 

[Susquehannock]

Cannot believe nobody has mentioned Dogpile.com yet. :Q

Why limit yourself to just Google, Yahoo, Ask, or many others, when you can use a Metasearch engine like Dogplie to use them all at once?

 

[triacontahedron]

There is a nice resource for math http://planetmath.org/
Lots of entries and books. Quite a lot of information even on high school math.
They use latex (compiled to pdf or html) and everything is under "GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)".

Nice resource for ODE and PDE http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/index.htm

 

[Mojoed]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Just thought I'd bump this with a tip:

On google, if you need to do a conversion, type something like:

45.67 miles = ? cm

And, it'll do the conversion for you. No need for a special website.

Neat ^

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[GenHoth]

www.lexisnexis.com

A stock pile of legal documents and periodicals from 1986 onward.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis

 

[RideFree]

Thanks Xyo & the rest of you for contribiuting and compiling this.
Lots of good stuff here.

 

[wwswimming]

FindLaw Legal Database & Search Engine

a good legal reference.

good medical references -
PubMed
FDA Website Search Engine

 

[Stg-Flame]

Process Library is very useful if you are trying to find information on processes that are running in your background.

 

[Roymena]

Unit Convertion Tool

:camera: Easy check defintions and symbols

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Just thought I'd bump this with a tip:

On google, if you need to do a conversion, type something like:

45.67 miles = ? cm

And, it'll do the conversion for you. No need for a special website.

It's even smarter than that. You can just type

45.67 miles in cm

and it'll give you the right answer.

It also knows a lot of physical constants. Try typing in:

(mass of electron) * c^2 in MeV

It'll give you the rest mass of an electron

Of course you could just type in

mass of electron in MeV/c^2

to get the same thing. Actually, google calculator does a lot of cool physics stuff. I use it in the lab all the time.

 

[Taejin]

http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/

This is an *amazing* reference of thermophysical properties of chemicals. It has data compiled from the research of different scientists, as well as references. For example, it will tell you the heat capacity of a liquid and then the range of temperatures it was tested at, and then the names of the researchers and when they tested it.

I used it in one of my classes to find things like:
Boiling temperature
Heat of vap at boiling
Antoine's constants
critical temp/pressure/volume
etc

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Nice list. Most of the sites I have in my favorites are too specialized, but I'll have a look later to see whether I have some decent ones too still.