Pfeiffer Physics Library News
April, 2010

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** News **

• Physics Library Book Budget - I still have money left in the FY2010 budget for purchasing books. The last day to purchase books on this fiscal year's budget is May 7. If there are any books which you would like me to purchase for the Physics Library, please let me know as soon as possible.
  
  
• WU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, August 2009+, are available online at http://digital.wustl.edu/etd/. I believe there will be records in our online catalog eventually, but that part of the process is not yet complete. Remember, most WU PhD dissertations 1996+ continue to be available fulltext online in the Dissertations & Theses @ Washington University in St. Louis database.
  
  
• Ebook Pilot in the Catalog - During the months of March and April, 2010, when you use either of the Library Catalogs you may notice many more electronic, or ebook, titles than before. Over 70,000 ebooks are being made available to the WU community as part of a pilot project at the Libraries. The pilot is a way for the Libraries to gauge interest in ebooks. The titles in the pilot are not actually purchased by the Libraries until you click on and read the ebook. If you choose an ebook title that is part of the project, you will be prompted to enter your WUSTLKey before you continue on to access the ebook content. Another way to identify these is that the link in the catalog will say "Click here to view book" instead of "WUSTL fulltext." We are not actually spending money when you enter your WUSTLKey. You may look at the tables of contents, browse and actually do some reading before we need to pay for the book. Please use any of these ebooks as you wish during the trial. We're interested in hearing what you think of our new program! If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email Alison Verbeck or call 314-935-6215.
  
  
• Firefox search plugin for the WUSTL Campus Directory - Go to http://dbrews.com/search.html and follow the directions. It adds a WU directory pulldown to your Mozilla Firefox toolbar in the area where most Firefox users already have a Google search box, etc. This was created by a WU engineering student. It doesn't have anything to do with the library but I do like to make your work more efficient when I can and this is a very useful tool I think. Enjoy!
  
  
• Recently published papers in Physics - The following papers were recently indexed and published by members of the Physics Department:
  
  
  • Title: Low-temperature thermodynamics of the heavy-fermion metal YbRh/sub 2/(Si/sub 1-x/Ge/sub x/)/sub 2/ within a topological scenario for the quantum critical point
    Author(s): Khodel, V.A.; Clark, J.W.; Zverev, M.V.
    Source: Journal of Physics: Conference Series vol.200, no.1 : 012083 (4 pp.), 2010
    
    

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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, 2010

Advances in imaging and electron physics.  
TK7800 .A37 v.160 

The Astronomical almanac for the year ...  
QB8 U1 2011 

Bayesian methods in cosmology / [edited by] Michael P. Hobson ... [et al.].  
QB991.S73 B34 2010 

Comparative high pressure biology / editor, Philippe Sébert.  
QP517.H53 C66 2010 

Concepts in thermal physics / Stephen J. Blundell and Katherine M. Blundell.  
QC254.2 .B69 2010 

Electromagnetic theory and applications / A. K. Saxena.  
QC670 .S28 2009 

Energy and entropy : equilibrium to stationary states / Michael E. Starzak.  
QC311 .S78 2010 

Everywhere and everywhen : adventures in physics and philosophy / Nick Huggett. 
QC6 .H824 2010 

Heisenberg in the atomic age : science and the public sphere / Cathryn Carson.  
QC16.H45 C37 2010 

Introduction to plasma spectroscopy / Hans-Joachim Kunze.  
QC718.5.S6 K86 2009 

Isotopic studies of presolar SiC and oxide grains as probes of nucleoysnthesis [sic] 
and the chemical evolution of the galaxy / by Frank Gyngard.  
LD5791.8.PhD2009 G96 

Joseph Rotblat : a man of conscience in the nuclear age / Martin Underwood.  
QC774.R68 U535 2009 

The life of stars : the controversial inception and emergence of the theory of 
stellar structure / Giora Shaviv.  
QB808 .S53 2009 

The mechanisms and roles of feedback loops for visual processing / by Jing Shao.  
LD5791.8.PhD2009 S49 

Modern fluid dynamics : basic theory and selected applications in macro- and 
micro-fluidics / Clement Kleinstreuer.  
TA357 .K54 2010 

Nanomagnetism and spintronics / edited by Teruya Shinjo.  
TK7874.887 .N36 2009 

Principles of nanomagnetism / Alberto P. Guimarães.  
QC753.2 .G85 2009 

Properties of neutron star critical collapses / by Mew-Bing Wan.  
LD5791.8.PhD2009 W23 

Quantum chromodynamics on the lattice : an introductory presentation / C. Gattringer;
C. B. Lang  
QC793.3.Q35 G277 2010 

Relativistic quantum mechanics / R. Parthasarathy.  
QC174.24.R4 P37 2010 

Semiconductor nanostructures : quantum states and electronic transport / Thomas Ihn.  
TK7871.85 .I46 2010 

Solitons, instantons, and twistors / Maciej Dunajski.  
QC174.26.W28 D86 2010 

The standard model and beyond / Paul Langacker.  
QC794.6.S75 L36 2010 

Superstrings and other things : a guide to physics / Carlos I. Calle.  
QC21.3 .C35 2010 

Women in early British and Irish astronomy : stars and satellites / Mary Brück.  
QB34.5 .B783 2009 

A zeptospace odyssey : a journey into the physics of the LHC / Gian Francesco Giudice.  
QC787.P73 G58 2010

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