Pfeiffer Physics Library News
December, 2007

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** News **

• Physics Library Intersession Hours, December 20, 2007 - January 14, 2008:
  Monday - Friday, 7:30 am - 4:00 pm
  Closed Monday, December 24, 2007 - Tuesday, January 1, 2008.
  Closed Monday, January 21, 2008
  
  
• LibX Library Toolbar - You can download this new toolbar onto Firefox or Internet Explorer browsers giving you quick access to Washington University Libraries' electronic resources. With LibX installed, all the power of the Washington University Libraries' catalog, Worldcat.org, Full-text Journals A-Z List, Google Scholar, and more are just a click or two away.
  
  
• Trial of CRCnetBASE - We are currently running a trial of CRCnetBASE. This trial runs through December 20, 2007. CRCnetBASE will give us access to numerous fully searchable, online libraries and databases, featuring some of the most trusted scientific and technical references and resources in the world. One of the databases within CRCnetBASE is PHYSICSnetBASE. "From astrophysics to quantum physics, materials science to optoelectronics, this unified library offers both fundamental theories as well as contemporary investigations of time, matter, and space. It includes many volumes from the world-renowned Institute of Physics." Please try out these resources and let me know if you are interested in them.
  
  
• Attention Spring Physics course instructors! Please send me a list of books you would like placed on reserve. If you are keeping the same books for spring that you used for fall, let me know. 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.
  
  
• Recently published papers in Physics - The following papers were recently indexed by INSPEC and published by members of the Physics Department:
  
  
  • Title: Heterogeneous nucleation of amorphous alloys on catalytic nanoparticles to produce 2D patterned nanocrystal arrays
    Author: A K Gangopadhyay, et al
    Source: Nanotechnology v.18, 485606, 2007
    
    
  • Title: Sensitive ultrasonic detection of dystrophic skeletal muscle in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy using an entropy-based signal receiver
    Author(s): Hughes, M.S.; Marsh, J.N.; Wallace, K.D.; Donahue, T.A.; Connolly, A.M.; Lanza, G.M.; Wickline, S.A.
    Source: Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology vol.33, no.8 : 1236-43, Aug. 2007
    
    
  • Title: Studies in superconductivity at extreme pressures
    Author(s): Schilling, J.S.
    Source: Physica C: Superconductivity and its applications vol.460-462 : 182-5, 1 Sept. 2007
    
    

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**Recent Additions to the Library Web Pages**

[Suggestions are welcome!]

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.

• CAP Journal - Communicating Astronomy with the Public, a free peer-reviewed journal for astronomy communicators.

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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.

November, 2007

Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics  
QC173 A2543 v.55 (2008) 

Advances in imaging and electron physics.  
TK7800 .A37 v.145 

Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics 
QB9 A6 v.45 (2007) 

Apollo's fire : a day on Earth in nature and imagination / Michael Sims.  
QB209 .S56 2007 

Astrophysical hydrodynamics : an introduction / Steven N. Shore.  
QB461 .S446 2007 

Basic theoretical physics : a concise overview / Uwe Krey, Anthony Owen.  
QC21.3 .K74 2007 

Decoherence and the quantum-to-classical transition / Maximilian A. Schlosshauer.  
QC794.6.C58 S36 2007 

The demon and the quantum : from the pythagorean mystics to Maxwell's demon and 
quantum mystery / Robert J. Scully ; with endnotes by Marlan O. Scully.  
QC173.98 .S28 2007 

Dictionary of pure and applied physics / edited by Dipak Basu.  
Ref QC5 .D57 2001 

Electron spin resonance : analysis and interpretation / Philip H. Rieger.  
QC763 .R54 2007 

Four laws that drive the universe / Peter Atkins.  
QC311.2 .A85 2007 

Handbook of radioactivity analysis / edited by Michael F. L'Annunziata.  
QC787.S34 H36 2003 

The Herschel objects and how to observe them / James Mullaney.  
QB64 .M86 2007 

Intelligent computing everywhere / Alfons J. Schuster, editor.  
Q342 .I54 2007 

An introduction to the physics of interstellar dust / Endrik Krügel.  
QB791 .K778 2008 

James Van Allen : the first eight billion miles / Abigail Foerstner.
QB36.V357 F64 2007 

Marietta Blau, stars of disintegration : biography of a pioneer of particle physics
 / [edited by] Brigitte Strohmaier and Robert Rosner.  
QC774.B53 M3713 2006 

McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of physics / Sybil P. Parker, editor in chief  
Ref QC5 M425 1993 

Molecular processes in plasmas : collisions of charged particles with molecules 
/ Y. Itikawa.  
QC718.5.P55 I74 2007 

Particle image velocimetry : a practical guide / Markus Raffel ... [et al.].  
TA357.5.M43 R34 2007 

Plasma-aided nanofabrication : from plasma sources to nanoassembly / Kostya (Ken) 
Ostrikov and Shuyan Xu.  
TA418.9.N35 O87 2007 

Radiation protection and dosimetry : an introduction to health physics / Michael 
G. Stabin.  
TK9152 .S82 2007 

The sky is your laboratory : advanced astronomy projects for amateurs / Robert K. 
Buchheim.  
QB43.3 .B9 2007 

Surface plasmon nanophotonics / Mark L. Brongersma, Pieter G. Kik, (editors).  
TA1520 .S87 2007 

Turbulent particle-laden gas flows / A.Y. Varaksin.  
QC168 .V37 2007 

Very special relativity : an illustrated guide / Sander Bais.  
QC173.65 .B35 2007

 

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