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Physics
Databases
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks
- Cambridge astronomy dictionary Reference Room QB14 .C34 1996
- CRC concise encyclopedia of mathematics Reference Room QA5 .W45 2003
Brief, clear entries with diagrams and references.
- CRC standard mathematical tables and formulae Reference Room QA47 .M315 2003
Updated mathematical handbook now includes game theory, risk analysis, heuristic search techniques, and other new material. Excellent tool for finding equations, tables, and formulae.
- Dictionary of scientific units Reference Room QC82 .J4 1986
- Encyclopedia of astronomy and astrophysics Reference Room QB14 .E54 2001
- Encyclopedia of physics Reference Room QC .E545 1991
- Handbook of chemistry and physics Reference Room QD65 .H3 ed.83 2002/03
- Handbook of proton-NMR spectra and data Reference Room QC762 .H33 1985
- Information retrieval SciFinder and Scifinder Scholar Reference Room Z699.5 .S3 R53 2002
- Macmillan dictionary of measurement Reference Room QC82 .D37 1994
- McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology Reference Room Q121 .M3 1997
- New York Public Library science desk reference Reference Desk, Ready Reference Q173 .B25 1995
- Scientific unit conversion : a practical guide to metrication Reference Room QC94 .C295 1997
- The Facts On File dictionary of atomic and nuclear physics Reference Room QC772 .F33 2003
Additional Print Sources
- Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics Ground Floor QC173 .A2543 v. 26 1989
- Annual review of nuclear and particle science Ground Floor QC770 .A5 v. 28
- Planetary scientist's companion Ground Floor QB601 .L84 1998
- Universe in a nutshell Ground Floor QC174.12 .H39 2001
An exciting new book by Hawking that provides a clear, concise introduction to current cosmological theories. Illustrated.
Unless indicated otherwise, all of the above print resources are located at the O'Toole Library, Jersey City Campus.
Selected Internet Resources
- American Journal of Physics This site offers full-text articles on various topics from the scholarly journal.
- ArXiv.org An e-Print archive for Quantitative Biology, Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science administered by Cornell University.
- Astronomical Applications Sunrise, sunset, and lunar data from the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department
- Astrophysics Data System (ADS) NASA's database of 3.3 million biblographic records, a third of them linking to full-text articles.
- Atomic Physics on the Internet Portal to atomic, molecular, and plasma physics resources and preprints from around the world.
- CERN Document Server Over 550,000 bibliographic records, including 220,000 fulltext documents, of interest to people working in particle physics and related areas. Covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs, and much more.
- Conversion of Units A Free University of Berlin webpage that offers a simple interface for converting numerical data from one unit of measurement to another.
- Dictionary of Units "an account of the principal units of measurement to be found in use around the world today, and the conversion factors often needed to change them into 'standard' units of the SI system."
- Law List Web dictionary covering the "Laws, rules, principles, effects, paradoxes, limits, constants, experiments, & thought-experiments in physics."
- Los Alamos E-Print Archive Abstracts and full text of current research in physics and mathematics and computer science. For full-test choose other for "format" and download the pdf version.
- Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center Links to over 1,800 calculators: the usual scientific, math, and financial calculators, but also calculators for dates, astrology, wine, odors, car pricing, traffic, event hosting... if you need to calculate something you will find it here.
- National Academies The National Academies advise the U.S.Congress on science, engineering, and medicine. From this page you can read current National Academies news and find links to the 3,000 publications that the National Academies make available to the public.
- National Science Digital Library A digital online library for the nation's resources on science, technology, mathematics and engineering.
- NIST--Physical Reference Data National Institute of Science and Technology collection of data sets for the physical sciences.
- Physics Text This site publishes an online physics textbook about the history of physics.
- Physics.org Organization which offers physics resources from the web and fun activities.
- PhysicsCentral A comprehensive site with graphics to teach how the physical world works.
- PhysicsWeb Access to Physics news, jobs and resources.
- Reference Desk Dictionaries and glossaries for science & technology from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Science Central Directory to scientific resources on the Internet.
- Science.gov An interagency directory contributed by U.S. government science organizations.
- Scirus A search engine that searches only screened educational and scientific sites and journal articles in Elsevier Science journals. Links will take you to the site or to the article in Science Direct.
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database " 'The SIMBAD astronomical database provides basic data, cross- identifications, and bibliography for astronomical objects outside the solar system.'Created by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) in France, the website contains over three million objects, eight and a half million identifiers, one hundred thousand bibliographical references, and four million citations of objects in papers." -- Scout Report.
- Strategian A "strategic" guide to informational resources in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and Psychology
- United States Nuclear Data Program "The US Nuclear Data Program (USNDP), a DOE-funded project, brings together a number of Laboratories to assemble, maintain, and disseminate a unified body of nuclear data to be used to support basic nuclear research and a wide variety of nuclear applications. These data include nuclear structure and nuclear reaction data, the decay properties of nuclei, nuclear masses, and astrophysical reaction rates."
- United States Patent and Trademark Office Seach for patents or for trademarks. Images may be included for later files. Patents are also available via SciFinder Scholar, a software program available in the O'Toole Library for searching Chemical Abstracts, Medline, and US Patents.
Page maintained by Kerry Falloon
Last updated 05 Apr 2006
email kfalloon@spc.edu
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