Pfeiffer Physics Library News
August, 2008
** News **
- Fall Semester Hours
Monday - Thursday, 7:30 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 7:30 am - 5:00 pm
Closed Saturdays and Sundays - The Physics Library will be closed on Monday, September 1, 2008 for Labor Day.
- New Library Website Design! - A new library homepage and site design are
now in place. Have comments? Please use this form
and choose 'Library Web site' from the drop-down list for the subject line of your message. What do you think?
- Does reading online instead of paper affect your research? - Electronic
Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship, by James A. Evans. Science
18 July 2008:Vol. 321. no. 5887, pp. 395 - 399 DOI: 10.1126/science.1150473 "...By
drawing researchers through unrelated articles, print browsing and perusal may have
facilitated broader comparisons and led researchers into the past. Modern graduate
education parallels this shift in publication—shorter in years, more specialized in
scope..." See also in the same issue: SOCIOLOGY:
Survey Finds Citations Growing Narrower as Journals Move Online, by Jennifer
Couzin. "Millions of scholarly articles have migrated online in recent years, making
trips to library stacks mostly obsolete. How has this affected research...?"
- The
Machine at the End of the Universe - in July 18 issue of the Chronicle of Higher education,
there were several stories about the Large Hadron Collider at Cern. Also
see: Searching
for Extra Dimensions and the Ultimate Theory and
Has
Physics Spent Itself Into a Corner? See me for the username and password to read the full articles.
- Recently published papers in Physics - The following papers were recently indexed by INSPEC and published by members of the Physics Department:
- Title: Negative dispersion in bone: the role of interference in measurements of the
apparent phase velocity of two temporally overlapping signals
Author(s): Bauer, A.Q.; Marutyan, K.R.; Holland, M.R.; Miller, J.G.
Source: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America vol.123, no.4 : 2407-14, 2008
- Title: The role of collateral paths in long-range diffusion of /sup 3/He in lungs
Author(s): Conradi, M.S.; Yablonskiy, D.A.; Woods, J.C.; Gierada, D.S.; Bartel, S.-E.T.; Haywood, S.E.; Menard, C.
Source: Academic Radiology vol.15, no.6 : 675-82, 2008
- Title: Impact of diffusion on concentration profiles around near-critical nuclei
and implications for theories of nucleation and growth
Author(s): Diao, J.; Salazar, R.; Kelton, K.F.; Gelb, L.D.
Source: Acta Materialia vol.56, no.11 : 2585-91, 2008
- Title: Nanostructure of room temperature deposited TiB/sub 2/ on Si(001) by pulsed laser ablation
Author(s): Longstreth-Spoor, L.; Gibbons, P.C.; Kelton, K.F.; Kalyanaraman, R.
Source: Thin Solid Films vol.516, no.18 : 5981-4, 2008
- Title: Halperin (m,m',n) Bilayer Quantum Hall States on Thin Cylinders
Authors: Alexander Seidel and Kun Yang
Source: Physical Review Letters vol. 101 036804 (2008)
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v101/e036804
- Title: Direct comparison of the performance of CZT detectors contacted with various metals
Author(s): Jung, I.; Groza, M.; Perkins, J.; Krawczynski, H.; Burger, A.
Source: Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering vol.5922, no.1 : 592202-1-8, 2005
- Title: Local structure of equilibrium and supercooled Ti-Zr-Ni liquids
Author(s): Lee, G.W.; Gangopadhyay, A.K.; Hyers, R.W.; Rathz, T.J.; Rogers, J.R.; Robinson, D.S.; Goldman, A.I.; Kelton, K.F.
Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) vol.77, no.18 : 184102-1-8, 2008
- Title: Negative dispersion in bone: the role of interference in measurements of the
apparent phase velocity of two temporally overlapping signals
Author(s): Bauer, A.Q.; Marutyan, K.R.; Holland, M.R.; Miller, J.G.
Source: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America vol.123, no.4 : 2407-14, 2008
- Attention Fall Physics course instructors! Please send me a list of
books you would like placed on reserve. You can use the Online Reserve Request
Form, send me an ">email, or put a note in my mailbox. If you are making a web page
for your class, you can link your page to the class' reserve list after I put the
books on reserve. There is no need to retype them. Just ask me if you have any
questions.
**Recent Additions to the Library Web Pages**
These additions are somewhere in the Physics and Astronomy Subject Guide [http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/physics/] portion of the Washington University Library web pages.
- Physics is designed to spotlight
exceptional research and to assist readers in identifying and understanding important
papers. This free online publication will offer expert-written commentary articles that
highlight and provide context for a select group of papers published by APS.
[http://physics.aps.org/]
**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.Bang! : the complete history of the universe / Brian May, Patrick Moore, Chris Lintott. QB982 .M39 2008 Beam effects, surface topography, and depth profiling in surface analysis / edited by Alvin W. Czanderna, Theodore E. Madey and Cedric J. Powell. TA418.7 .B43 1998 Classical novae / edited by Michael F. Bode, Aneurin Evans. QB841 .C595 2008 Concepts of modern physics : the Haifa lectures / Mendel Sachs. QC6 .S148 2007 Cosmic anger : Abdus Salam - the first Muslim Nobel scientist / by Gordon Fraser. QC16.S26 F73 2008 Einstein, relativity and absolute simultaneity / edited by William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith. QC173.585 .E35 2008 Fundamental astronomy / H. Karttunen ... [et al.], eds. QB43.2 .T2613 1994 c.2 Galaxies : a very short introduction / John Gribbin. QB857 .G739 2008 The harmonious universe : the beauty and unity of scientific understanding / Keith J. Laidler. Q173 .L25 2004 Introduction to 3+1 numerical relativity / Miguel Alcubierre. QC173.55 .A43 2008 Introduction to elementary particle physics / Alessandro Bettini. QC794.6.S75 B48 2008 Kelvin : life, labours and legacy / edited by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney, and Andrew Whitaker. QC16.K3 K35 2008 Light years : an exploration of mankind's enduring fascination with light / Brian Clegg. QC355.3 .C54 2008 Numerical recipes : the art of scientific computing / William H. Press ... [et al.]. QA297 .N866 2007 Organic semiconductors in sensor applications / D.A. Bernards, R.M. Owens, G.G. Malliaras, editors. QC611.8.O7 O74 2008 Plasma kinetic theory / D.G. Swanson. QC718.5.T5 S93 2008 Secrets of the hoary deep : a personal history of modern astronomy / Riccardo Giacconi. QB472 .G53 2008 Short-period binary stars : observations, analyses, and results / Eugene F. Milone, Denis A. Leahy, David W. Hobill [eds.]. QB821 .S68 2008 Symmetry and condensed matter physics : a computational approach / M. El-Batanouny, F. Wooten. QC174.17.S9 E43 2008 The universe in a mirror : the saga of the Hubble Telescope and the visionaries who built it / Robert Zimmerman. QB500.268 .Z56 2008
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