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Physics Directories and News
Librarians' Internet Index - Physics
Directory of Physics websites on a variety of topics.
Physics Internet Resources
Links to Physics resources on the web, compiled by the American Physical Society.
PhysicsWeb
Physics news and other resources.
Researching Physics
arXiv.org e-Print archive
Pre-publication articles in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Quantitative
Biology.
Efunda
Engineering resources, including many tables, functions and formulas in the "Mathematics" and "Unit
Conversion" sections.
Eric
Weisstein's World of Physics
Encyclopedia of Physics.
Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory
Information about this U.S. Department of Energy Research Lab, including a virtual
tour of the lab's 5 accelerators.
Laws List
Laws, rules, principles, effects, paradoxes, limits, constants, experiments,
and thought-experiments in Physics and Astronomy.
NASA Astrophysics Data
System
Index to scholarly literature in the fields of physics, astronomy, and planetary
sciences.
National Nuclear Data Center Databases
Access to Nuclear Structure and Decay Databases, Nuclear Reaction Databases,
and Bibliography Databases from the by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Physical
Reference Data
Access to Physical Constants, an Elemental Data Index and other reference data,
from the NIST.
Physics Applets
Java simulations on Astrophysics, Energy and Environment, Mechanics, and Thermodynamics,
from the University of Oregon.
Astronomy
AstroWeb
Links to Astronomy and Astrophysics resources on the web.
Eric Weisstein's
World of Astronomy
Encyclopedia of Astronomy.
Gazetteer
of Planetary Nomenclature
"Detailed information about all names of topographic and albedo features on planets and satellites," including images and feature data, from the USGS.
NASA Scientific and Technical Information
Access to the NASA Technical Reports Server and other resources.
SkyServer
Data and images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which seeks to map 1/4 of the sky.
Views of the Solar System
Tutorial covering the solar system and the history of space exploration.
Teaching Physics
World
Lecture Hall - Physics
Syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, multimedia textbooks, and more in
Physics.
World Lecture Hall - Astronomy
Syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, multimedia textbooks, and more in
Astronomy.
Browse the following call number areas in the Stacks or the Reference Collection:
QA Mathematics
QA75.5-76.95 Computer Science
QB Astronomy
QB460-466 Astrophysics
QC Physics
QC120-168.85 Mechanics
QC170-197 Atomic Physics
QC310.15-319 Thermodynamics
QC350-467 Optics
QC501-766 Electricity and Magnetism
QC770-798 Nuclear and Particle Physics
The following encyclopedias are examples of some of the many reference works, which are useful for background information or topic ideas, located in the Reference Collection:
Astronomy Encyclopedia REFB QB14 .A875 2002
Dictionary of Material Science and High Energy Physics REFB QC772 .D57 2001
Dictionary of Physics REFB QC5 .D538 2004
Dictionary of Pure and Applied Physics REFB QC5 .D485 2001
Encyclopedia of Physics QC5 .R596 2004
Facts on File Dictionary of Atomic and Nuclear Physics REFB QC772 .F33 2003
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You can also determine the correct subject heading (the specific words used by libraries to describe a subject or topic) for your search term by using the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). LCSH is searchable online and can be useful not only to establish the correct subject heading, but also to suggest alternate terminology, variant spellings and related terms.
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