Pfeiffer Physics Library News
April, 2008

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** News **

• Physics Library Budget - I still have money left in the budget for purchasing books. The last day to purchase books on this fiscal year's budget is May 2. If there are any books which you would like me to purchase for the Physics Library, please let me know as soon as possible.
  
  
• Library Focus Groups - WU Libraries will be conducting undergraduate and graduate student focus groups in April on how best to change Olin Library to better meet your space and technology needs. Do you need more quiet study space? What are your software and hardware needs? Let us know what you think!
  Incentive: Receive a $10 gift card to the WU campus bookstore. Food will also be provided during the hour session.
  Times/Days for Undergraduates: Wed., April 2, 5pm, Olin Library lobby OR Tues., April 8, 5pm, Olin Library lobby.
  Times/Days for Graduate Students: Thurs., April 3, 4pm, Olin Library lobby OR Wed., April 9, 4pm, Olin Library lobby.
  Please register beforehand: http://library.wustl.edu/forms/focus_registration.html
  Questions: dkatz@wustl.edu (Debbie Katz) 935-4822
  
  
• Recently published papers in Physics - The following papers were recently indexed and published by members of the Physics Department:
  
  
  • Title: Superconductivity in Sc metal and Li(Mg) alloy under extreme pressure
    Author(s): Hamlin, J.J.; Debessai, M.; Schilling, J.S.
    Source: Physica B vol.403, no.5-9 : 1074-5, 2008
    
    

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**Recent Additions to the Library Web Pages**

[Suggestions are welcome!]

• CHEMnetBASE - Major chemical reference works from Chapman & Hall/CRC, searchable and browsable. Includes these individual databases:
  • Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD), consisting of:
    • Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds
    • Dictionary of Drugs
    • Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
    • Dictionary of Natural Products
    • Dictionary of Organic Compounds
  • The Handbook of Chemistry & Physics
  • Polymers: A Property Database
  • Properties of Organic Compounds
  • CRCPress Periodic Table Online
  
  
• SCI-TECHnetBASE - Over 3,100 full-text books across the sciences, fully searchable and browsable. Topics covered include the biomedical sciences, chemical engineering, chemistry, computer science, engineering, environmental science, ergonomics and human factors, food science, forensics and criminal justice, healthcase, information technology, life science, material science, math, medicine, nutrition, pharmaceutical science and regulation, physics, and statistics.
  
  
• We now have access to the following electronic journals:
  
  
  • Chinese Physics B
    http://stacks.iop.org/1674-1056
    
    
  • Communications in Theoretical Physics
    http://stacks.iop.org/0253-6102
    
    
  • Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
    http://www.iop.org/journals/stam
    
    

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**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**NEW BOOKS**

Note: If you want more information on any of these, please search the Library Catalog by title, keywords or author.

March, 2008

Advances in imaging and electron physics.  
TK7800 .A37 v.150 

Auralization : fundamentals of acoustics, modelling, simulation, algorithms and 
acoustic virtual reality / Michael Vorländer.  
QC225.7 .V67 2008 

Computational physics of carbon nanotubes / H. Rafii-Tabar.  
TA418.9.N35 R34 2008 

Digital SLR astrophotography / Michael A. Covington.  
QB121 .C68 2007 

Essentials of radio wave propagation / Christopher Haslett.  
TK6550 .H37 2008 

Festkörperprobleme.  
TK7871.85 .F47 47 

Friction-induced vibrations and sound : principles and applications / Gang Sheng.  
TA355 .S495 2008 

Fundamentals of Magnetism / Mathias Getzlaff.  
QC754 .G48 2008 

Gravitational collapse and spacetime singularities / Pankaj S. Joshi.  
QB843.B55 J68 2007 

Introduction to the theory of coherence and polarization of light / Emil Wolf.  
QC476.C6 W65 2007 

Luminescence : from theory to applications / edited by Cees Ronda.  
QC476.7 .L86 2008 

The mystery of the missing antimatter / Helen R. Quinn and Yossi Nir.  
QC173.3 .Q56 2008 

Neutron fluctuations : a treatise on the physics of branching processes / Imre 
Pázsit, Lénárd Pál.  
QC20.7.S8 P39 2008 

Observations of the active galacic nucleus Markarian 421 with the first two VERITAS 
Cerenkov telescopes / by Scott Brandon Hughes.  
LD5791.8.PhD2007 H86

Panofsky on physics, politics, and peace : Pief remembers / Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky.  
QC16.P36 A3 2007 

Physics and properties of narrow gap semiconductors / Junhao Chu, Arden Sher.  
QC611.8.N35 C58 2008 

Planetary systems and the origins of life / [edited by] Ralph Pudritz, Paul Higgs, 
Jonathon Stone.  
QH326 .P53 2007 

Plasma polarization spectroscopy / Takashi Fujimoto, Atsushi Iwamae (editors).  
QC718.5.S6 P53 2008 

Principles of environmental physics / John Monteith, Mike Unsworth.  
QH505 .M58 2008 

Progress in optics  
QC351 P7 v.51 (2008) 

QCD@Work : International Workshop on Quantum Chromodynamics : Theory and Experiment : 
Martina Franca, Italy, 16-20 June 2007 / editors, Pietro Colangelo ... [et al.]. 
QC793.3.Q35 I58 2007 

Quantum information theory and quantum statistics / Dénes Petz.  
QC174.4 .P47 2008 

Quantum optics : including noise reduction, trapped ions, quantum trajectories, 
and decoherence / Miguel Orszag.  
QC446.2 .O78 2008 

Quantum theory of conducting matter : Newtonian equations of motion for a Bloch 
electron / Shigeji Fujita and Kei Ito.  
QC680 .F84 2007 

A student's guide to Maxwell's equations / Daniel Fleisch.  
QC670 .F56 2008 

Theory of periodic conjugate heat transfer / Yuri B. Zudin.  
QC320 .Z792 2007 

Vibrational spectroscopy in life science / Friedrich Siebert and Peter Hildebrandt.  
QD96.V53 S54 2008

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