Web life:Hyperphysics
Physics World · 2009
So what is the site about? Hyperphysics is a network of cross-linked articles on topics from acceleration to the Zeeman effect – essentially an online physics encyclopedia. Unlike some sites featured in this column, Hyperphysics is far from new. In fact, by Web standards, it is positively ancient; when it was launched back in 1998 as a "hyperphysics exploration environment", the search engine Google was still based in a California garage. Today, Google's algorithms place Hyperphysics entries near the top of results pages for most physics-related search terms – it receives some three million hits per year – and some readers may already have stumbled across the site while searching for physics information on the Internet.