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LSU Libraries Reference Resources for Physics-Resources by Discipline.

Contents:-
High Energy Physics/Particle Physics.
Nuclear Physics.
Atomic Physics.
Condensed Matter Physics.
Crystallography.
GeoPhysics.
Archival Information and Miscellaneous.

• The Particle Adventure: Gives a completely non-technical introduction into the field of particle physics.
  
  
• The Official Superstring Theory Web Site: Gives basic information about what string theory and M theory is, what the basic properties of the different string theories are.
  
  
• The Official Particle Data Book: Contains particle and resonance masses, important formulas for accelerator physics, etc.
  
  
• SLAC Spires: Good information on preprints, journal articles, thesis, conferences, bib info on book, archieve of conference proceedings, and directories of: HEP names, experiments, conferences, and a glossary of HEP terms.
  
  
• Particle Physics Information and Databases.
  


• Particle Physics an information portal service linking to electronic publishing and other resources in the fields of experimental and theoretical high energy particle physics (including astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology).
  


• Online Particle Physics Information. A broad set of online resources that are of value to the particle physics community, complied by SLAC.
  

Nuclear Physics                      Back to Contents.

• ABC's of Nuclear Science: Gives a completely non-technical introduction into the field of Nuclear Science.
  
  
• The WWW Virtual Library: Nuclear Science
  
  
• Table of Isotopes: The Berkeley Laboratory Isotopes Project.
  
  
• Title: Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables.
  Summary holdings: v.12:no.1(1973:Aug.)-v.83:no.2(2003:Mar.)
  Call Number: QC173 .N8835
  Location: Stacks, Middelton Library.
  Note:- Current Issues in Current Periodicals/Newspapers Room
  
  
• Title: Atomic Data
  Call Number:QC173 .A824 V.5 1973
  Location: Stacks, Middelton Library.
  Note:- Current Issues in Current Periodicals/Newspapers Room
  
  
• Title: Nuclear data tables.
  Summary holdings: v.5:no.1(1968:Nov.)-v.11:no.8/9(1973:July)
  Call Number: QC 173 N8835
  Location: Stacks, Middelton Library.
  
  
• Isotope Explorer: Online searchable database of reaction data. Includes information on Giant Resonances, and Superdeformed Nuclei.
  
  
• National Nuclear Data Center: Contains wallet cards of the states of your favorite isotope, links to software, manuals, datafiles, cross-section data, etc. The clearinghouse for information on nuclear data.
  
  
• Glossary of Nuclear Science Terms
  
  

Atomic Physics                      Back to Contents.

• Atomic Physics on the Internet: Gateway to internet resources in atomic physics.
  
  
• Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables (see above)
  
  
• NIST Physical Reference Data The National Institute of Standards and Technology is the clearinghouse for precise experiments. They create the standards used by scientists, like how many wavelengths of a particular kind of light is one meter, etc. They have compiled a bunch of their data on atomic and molecular properties.
  
  

Condensed Matter Physics:                      Back to Contents.

• Title: Tables of physical and chemical constants and some mathematical functions.
  Editor: Kaye, G. W. C. (George William Clarkson)
  Call Number: QC61 .K3 1959
  Location: Reference and Stacks, Middelton Library.
  
  
• Title: Handbook of Physical Quantities.
  Editor: Grigoriev, Igor S.
  Call Number: QC 61 H36 1997.
  Location: Stacks, Middelton Library.
  
  
• Title: Thermophysical Properties of Matter.
  Call Number: QC171 .P83.
  Summary holdings: v.1-14
  Location: Stacks, Middelton Library.
  
  
• Tilte: JANAF Thermochemical Tables 3rd. edition
  Author: Chase, M. W.
  Summary holdings: v.1-2
  Call Number: QD511.8.J36 1986 V.1
  Location: Reference, Chemistry Library
  
  
• Tilte: Handbook of Vacuum Science and Technology.
  Author: Hoffman, Dorothy M.
  Call Number: TJ940 .H59 19987
  Location: Stacks, Middelton Library
  
  
• Title: Handbook of Optics Optical Society of America.
  Editor: Bass, Michael.
  Summary holdings: v.1-4
  Call Number: QC369 .H35
  Location: Stacks, Middelton Library.
  
  
• Title: Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids.
  Editor: Palik, Edward D.
  Call Number:QC 176 .8 O6 H36 1985
  Location: Stacks, Middelton Library.
  
  

Crystallography:                      Back to Contents.

• A Dynamic Guide to the Crystallographic Literature A presentation by Greg Youngen at SLA on resources in Crystallography.
  
  
Sample Books of Interest to those working in cross-fields – Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry (Solid State)

• Title: Characterization of Nanophase Materials
  Editor: Wang, Zhong Lin.
  Call Number: TA418.9 .N35 C43 2000
  Location: Stacks, Chemistry Library.
  
  
• Title: Introduction to Diffraction in Materials Science and Engineering.
  Author: Aaron D. Krawitz.
  Call Number: XX(2123176.1)
  Location: Middelton Library, ON-ORDER
  
  

GeoPhysics:                      Back to Contents.

Indexes and Databases:
The indexes and databases for general physics are also useful for finding geophysical information. In addition, the following are important.


• GeoRef
  “GeoRef covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities are also covered.”
  
  
• Also, see Chem Abs, Current Contents, Web of Science, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA)
  
  
Encyclopedias:


• Title: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Exploration Geophysics
  Editor: Sheriff, Robert E.
  Call Number: TN 269 S524 1991
  Location: Stacks, Middelton Library.
  
  
• AGU Reference Shelf (series, including: Global Earth Physics, Mineral Physics and Crystallography; Rock Physics and Phase Relations) Washington DC: American Geophysical Union. 1995. Covers basic geophysics concepts, and includes lots of data and figures Together they cover a lot of ground.
  
  
• Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics. Edited by E.D. James. New York: Van Nostrand. 1989. General overviews of major concepts and ideas in geophysics.
  
  
• Title:International dictionary of geophysics; seismology, geomagnetism, aeronomy, oceanography, geodesy, gravity, marine geophysics, meteorology, the earth as a planet and its evolution.
  Editor: Runcorn, S. K.
  Summary holdings: v.1-2 + "portfolio"
  Call Number: QC 801 .9 I5 1967
  Location: Stacks, Middelton Library
  
  
• CRC Handbook, Landolt Bornstein, Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants above also have relevant information for geophysics questions.
  
  
Web Sites:


• Geophysics on the Internet Clearinghouse of information, divided into data, educational information, directories, and reference materials.
  
  
• National Geophysical Data Center (metasite) US Dept. of Commerce; NOAA; Nat. Envir., Satellite, Data, & Info. Service
  
  
• National Earthquake Information Center Clearinghouse of information related to earthquakes. Includes recent earthquakes from around the world, data sets, and information for the public. Covers information needs from the lay public to the researcher.
  
  
• Selected Web Sites for Geoscientists Gateway to lots of useful directory-type information. Provides an exhaustive list of organizations, data sources, online journals, directories, etc. A solid gateway to Geoinformation on the Internet.
  
  
• Geoscience Information Society - GIS Information/library organization devoted to the geoscience subject area. Hosts the primary information listserve for geoscience information, GeoNet.
  
  

Archival Information and Miscellaneous:                      Back to Contents.

• Einstein Archives “The new website is the result of an ambitious cooperative effort between the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology. It will enable access to some 3,000 high-quality digitized images. Thirty-nine documents will also be provided (in PDF format) as they appear in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, published in German by Princeton University Press, with historical and scientific annotations in English; some of the documents are accompanied by English translations. “An extensive archival database and finding aid will allow for the direct searching and browsing of more than 40,000 records of Einstein and Einstein-related documents. These concern his scientific and nonscientific writings, his professional and personal correspondence, notebooks, travel diaries, personal documents, and third-party items. “The archival database will present records for all items that have been edited and annotated by scholars, and that have appeared since 1987 in The Collected Papers. These will include some 500 items that were not part of the original collection, but that were uncovered during the past 25 years. The eight volumes that are available so far contain Einstein's writings and correspondence from his youth to age 40. They include his major papers on the theory of special relativity, general relativity, the quantum theory of light and matter, as well as a wealth of lesser-known contributions to many aspects of science, education, international reconciliation, Zionism, and pacifism.” (From press release by Mark Wheeler, May14, 2003; wheel@caltech.edu)
  
  
• History of Quantum Physics Originally published by the American Philosophical Society in 1967, this text is now available for free online.