Physics

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Subject Directories

• Internet Public Library > Physics
• PhysLink > Reference

Internet Sites

• A Century of Physics Timeline
• American Institute of Physics > Resources for the History of Physics & Allied Fields
  • History Exhibit Hall
• College Physics for Students of Physics and Chemistry - Hyperlinked text for first year physics undergrads.
• CODATA Internationally recommended values of the Fundamental Physical Constants - from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
• How Things Work: Explaining the Physics of Everyday Life
• Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center > Physics
• Official String Theory Website
• Physics Unit Converter

Textbook Sites

• Physics and Physics for Scientists and Engineers - Prentice Hall, for PHY 1610 and PHY 2520.

Articles: Indexes and Full Text

• General Science Collection (Infotrac)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus

Print Sources

• To find print (and some non-print) materials in OCC Libraries, search the Library Catalog. Some sample Library of Congress Subject Headings searches are:
  • Einstein, Albert
  • nuclear energy
  • physics -- laboratory manuals
  • sound

• Selected Reference Books
  • CRC handbook of chemistry and physics. Cleveland, Ohio: CRC Press, 2003.
         AH, HL, OR, RO, SF  Reference QD 65 .H3
  • Rigden, John S., ed.  Macmillan encyclopedia of physics. New York: Macmillan, 1996.
        AH, OR, RO, SF  Reference  QC 5 .M15 1996
  • Browsing Call Numbers (in Library of Congress Classification

• Browsing Call Numbers
  • QC 170-197  Atomic Physics
  • QC 350-467  Optics
  • QC 501-766  Electricity and Magnetism
  • QC 770-798  Nuclear and Particle Physics

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