Pfeiffer Physics Library News
June, 2009
** News **
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Physics Library Summer Hours
Monday - Friday, 7:30 am - 4:00 pm
Closed Saturdays and Sundays.
Closed July 3.
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Library Inventory - The annual inventory of Physics Library material was
done in May. Twenty nine books have been identified as lost or missing. Books that
are missing two years in a row, or paid for by the patron who lost it, are considered to be lost. Books
which are now considered lost are listed below or can be found at:
[http://catalog.wustl.edu/search/r?SEARCH=Physics+Library+Lost+Books]. Please
check the list to see if there are any lost books which should be replaced and let me know.
- The art of electronics / Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill.
- Beginner's Russian reader, with conversational exercises
- Deconvolution of images and spectra / edited by Peter A. Jansson
- Electromagnetic symmetry / edited by Carl E. Baum, Haralambos N. Kritikos.
- Frontiers in electromagnetics / edited by Douglas H. Werner, Raj Mittra.
- Fundamentals of photonics / Bahaa E.A. Saleh, Malvin Carl Teich
- Glassy metals : magnetic, chemical, and structural properties / editor Ryusuke Hasegawa
- An introduction to close binary stars / R.W. Hilditch.
- Methods of thermodynamics / Howard Reiss
- Physicochemical hydrodynamics.
- Proceedings. International Symposium on Transport Processes in Statistical Mechanics (1956 : Brussels, Belgium)
- The theory and practice of scintillation counting / by J. B. Birks
- Understanding UNIX : a conceptual guide / James R. Groff, Paul N. Weinberg.
In addition to the 13 lost books, there are 16 other books which are missing. That list can be found at: [http://catalog.wustl.edu/search/r?SEARCH=Physics+Library+Missing+Books].
Any help in recovering any of these titles will be greatly appreciated.
- IngentaConnect Alerting Service will be discontinued August 31, 2009. Up to 5 tables of contents are
free from this service but we have been paying for additional tables of contents and search alerts for WU campus
users. A few alternatives are listed at Database, Journal,
and Search Engine Alerts. If you wish, please contact me for help setting up alternative alerts.
- Attention Fall Physics course instructors! If there are books or other materials which I need to order for reserve please notify me as soon as possible. Also if you have selected a new textbook or a new edition, please let me know. I do not receive the information which you send to the bookstore. Thank you!
- Recently published papers in Physics - The following paper was recently indexed and published by members of the Physics Department:
- Title: The confrontation between general relativity and experiment
Author(s): Will, C.M.
Source: Spanish Relativity Meeting. Encuentros Relativistas Espanoles ERE2007. Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology : 3-13, 2007 - Title: Sodium-22 from supernovae: a meteorite connection
Author(s): Amari, S.
Source: Astrophysical Journal vol.690, no.2 : 1424-31, 2009 - Title: Conjecture on the analyticity of PT-symmetric potentials and the reality of their spectra
Author(s): Bender, C.M.; Hook, D.W.; Mead, L.R.
Source: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General vol.41, no.39 : 392005 (9 pp.), 2008 - Title: Exact isospectral pairs of PT symmetric Hamiltonians
Author(s): Bender, C.M.; Hook, D.W.
Source: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General vol.41, no.24 : 244005 (17 pp.), 2008 - Title: /i PT/ symmetry and large-/i N/ models
Author(s): Ogilvie, M.C.; Meisinger, P.N.
Source: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General vol.41, no.24 : 244021 (13 pp.), 2008
- Title: The confrontation between general relativity and experiment
**Recent Additions to the Library Web Pages**
These additions are somewhere in the
Physics
and Astronomy Research Guide
[http://libguides.wustl.edu/physics/] portion of
the Washington University Library web pages.
- WolframAlpha Web Site, a New Kind of Research Helper - What
if you could ask your encyclopedia to not only spit out facts, but to perform an analysis with those facts or compute
the answers to a math problem for you? A free Web site promises to do just that, potentially becoming a virtual
research assistant for professors. The new site, called WolframAlpha, seems bound to be a useful -- and possibly
controversial -- tool on college campuses. The service will present users with a simple search box, as Google does.
But WolframAlpha won't just point to Web sites about what the user types; it will attempt to compute an answer
based on its vast collection of facts and statistical-analysis software.
**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.Advanced wavefront control : methods, devices, and applications V : 29-30 August 2007, San Diego, California, USA / Richard A. Carreras, John D. Gonglewski, Troy A. Rhoadarmer, editors TA1540 .A38 2007 Advances in cryogenic engineering materials QC278 U45 v.54 Annual review of nuclear and particle science. QC173 .A52 v.58 (2008) Antimatter / Frank Close. QC173 .C52 2009 Astronomical optics and elasticity theory : active optics methods / Gérard René Lemaitre. QB86 .L46 2009 Beyond uncertainty : Heisenberg, quantum physics, and the bomb / David C. Cassidy. QC16.H35 C368 2009 Boltzmann's legacy / Giovanni Gallavotti, Wolfgang L. Reiter, Jakob Yngvason, editors. QC174.7 .I58 2006 Bose-condensed gases at finite temperatures / Allan Griffin, Tetsuro Nikuni, Eugene Zaremba. QC175.47.B65 G74 2009 Darwin studies : a theorist and his theories in their contexts / M.J.S. Hodge. QH31.D2 H68 2009 Dynamics and relativity / Jeffrey R. Forshaw and A. Gavin Smith. QC173.65 .F67 2009 Festkörperprobleme. TK7871.85 .F47 48 From indoor air pollution to the search for Earth-like planets in the cosmos : European Research Course on Atmospheres : Grenoble, France / edited by Claude Boutron. QC1 .J65 121 Fundamentals of photonics / Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Malvin Carl Teich. TA1520 .S24 2007 Galactic dynamics / James Binney and Scott Tremaine. QB857 .B524 2008 Gauge field theories / Paul H. Frampton. QC793.3.F5 F73 2008 Globular clusters - guides to galaxies : proceedings of the Joint ESO-FONDAP Workshop on Globular Clusters held in Concepción, Chile, 6-10 March 2006 / T. Richtler, S. Larsen (eds.). QB853.5 .J65 2006 Lives in science : how institutions affect academic careers / Joseph C. Hermanowicz. QC29 .H47 2009 Mathematical methods in quantum mechanics : with applications to Schrödinger operators / Gerald Teschl. QC174.17.S3 T47 2009 A modern introduction to quantum field theory / Michele Maggiore. QC174.45 .M284 2005 The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci / compiled and edited from the original manuscripts by Jean Paul Richter. ND623.L5 A15 1970b v.1 Numerical recipes : the art of scientific computing / William H. Press ... [et al.] QA297 .N866 2007 CD-ROM Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project : insights into J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Father of the atomic bomb" / editor, Cynthia C. Kelly. QC16.O62 O66 2006 Physics, formation and evolution of rotating stars / André Maeder. QB810 .M34 2009 Planetary systems : detection, formation and habitability of extrasolar planets / M. Ollivier ... [et al.]. QB820 .P53 2009 Progress in optics QC351 P7 v.52 (2009) Quantitative ultrasound : assessment of osteoporosis and bone status / edited by Christopher F. Njeh ... [et al.]. RC931.O73 Q35 1999 Quantum computer science / Marco Lanzagorta, Jeffrey Uhlmann. QA76.889 .L35 2009 Quantum computer science : an introduction / N. David Mermin. QA76.889 .M47 2007 Quantum theory of conducting matter : superconductivity / Shigeji Fujita, Kei Ito, Salvador Godoy. QC611.92 .F85 2009 Raman spectroscopy for soft matter applications / edited by Maher S. Amer. QC463.P5 R36 2009 Relativistic transitions in the hydrogenic atoms : elementary theory / R. Boudet. QC793.5.E62 B68 2009 Shaping the day : a history of timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800 / Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift. QB213 .G54 2009 Spectroscopy of low temperature plasma / Vladimir N. Ochkin ; [translator, Sergey Kittell]. QC718.5.S6 O24 2009 Star vistas : a collection of fine art astrophotography / Greg Parker and Noel Carboni. QB121 .P28 2009 4o Supersymmetric solitons / M. Shifman, A. Yung. QC174.26.W28 S44 2009 - Tools of radio astronomy / Thomas L. Wilson, Kristen Rohlfs, Susanne Hüttemeister. QB475 .R63 2009
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