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History of x-rays
100 Years of Medical Radiology
http://www.rhhct.org.uk/history.html
Discovery/ Apparatus/
Pioneers/ Recent Developments
The History of X-rays
http://www.xray2000.co.uk/
Long page of text (no
headings or images) but good.
Coolidge Biography
http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/coolidge.html
courtesy of Harvard
Square Library
Roentgen biography
http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1901/rontgen-bio.html
courtesy of Noble
Prize web site
Medical uses of x-rays
What is involved in a career as a Radiographer
http://www.radiographers.org/professionalinfo/radiography_radiographers.htm
Industrial use of x-rays
X-ray Inspection Techniques in Industry
http://www.umw.edu
Demonstrations/ Applets/ Animations
Ionisation (demo)
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed004p1297
Diagnostic x-rays (demo)
http://www.xray2000.co.uk/
Bremhstrahlung and
K-shell knockout (demo)
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/xray/making_xrays.html
Diffraction (demo)
http://www.eserc.stonybrook.edu/ProjectJava/Bragg/
Background reading
Electromagnetic spectrum
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/emspectrum.html
Photoelectric Effect (demo)
http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/kap28/PhotoEffect/
Electromagnetic wave (demo)
http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/emWave/emWave.html
Compton scattering
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/how_l2/compton_scatter.html
Rutherford scattering (demo)
http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/more_stuff/Applets/rutherford/rutherford.html