Pfeiffer Physics Library News
November, 2008

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** News **

• The Physics Library will be closed November 27-28, 2008 for the Thanksgiving holiday.
  
  
• Google Books news: Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers announced Oct. 28th that they had settled their longstanding legal battle over Google’s mass scanning of books. Under the terms of the deal, Google will pay $125-million to establish a Book Rights Registry, to compensate authors and publishers whose copyrighted books have already been scanned, and to cover legal costs.
  
  
• The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced on Tuesday, October 7. The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded with one half to Yoichiro Nambu, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" and the other half jointly to Makoto Kobayashi, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan and Toshihide Maskawa, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, and Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."
  
  
• Recently published papers in Physics - The following papers were recently indexed by INSPEC and published by members of the Physics Department:
  
  
  • Title: Structural study of supercooled liquid silicon
    Author(s): Kim, T.H.; Goldman, A.I.; Kelton, K.F.
    Source: Philosophical Magazine vol.88, no.2 : 171-9, 2008
    
    
  • Title: Comparison of the pressure dependences of T/sub c/ in the trivalent d-electron superconductors Sc, Y, La, and Lu up to megabar pressures
    Author(s): Debessai, M.; Hamlin, J.J.; Schilling, J.S.
    Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) vol.78, no.6 : 064519-1-10, 2008
    
    
  • Title: Outstanding problems of presolar diamond in meteorites
    Author(s): Amari, S.
    Source: AIP Conference Proceedings vol.1016 : 389-93, 2008
    
    
  • Title: Interference between wave modes may contribute to the apparent negative dispersion observed in cancellous bone
    Author(s): Anderson, C.C.; Marutyan, K.R.; Holland, M.R.; Wear, K.A.; Miller, J.G.
    Source: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America vol.124, no.3 : 1781-9, 2008
    
    

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October, 2008

Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics
QB9 A6 v.46 (2008) 

Application of energy and angular momentum balance to gravitational radiation 
reaction for binary systems with spinning bodies / by Jing Zeng.  
LD5791.8.PhD2008 Z36 

Chaos and coarse graining in statistical mechanics / Patrizia Castigilione ... 
[et al.].  
QC174.8 .C475 2008 

The cosmic microwave background / Ruth Durrer.  
QB991.C64 D87 2008 

Critical behavior of non-ideal systems / Dmitry Yu. Ivanov.  
QC173.4.C74 I92 2008 

Extensions of the Einstein-Schrödinger non-symmetric theory of gravity / by 
James A. Shifflett.  
LD5791.8.PhD2008 S54 

Extrasolar planets and astrobiology / Caleb A. Scharf.  
QB820 .S28 2009 

Force generation by actin polymerization : nanoscale to microscale / by Jie Zhu.  
LD5791.8.PhD2008 Z55 

Fundamentals of gas dynamics / V. Babu.  
QC168 .B32 2008 

Gamma-ray and optical variability of the TeV blazars / by Kuen Lee.  
LD5791.8.PhD2008 L37 

General relativistic numerical simulations with adaptive mesh refinement : 
construction of tools and applications to neuron star processes / by Jian Tao.  
LD5791.8.PhD2008 T25 

Hubble imaging space and time / David Devorkin & Robert W. Smith.  
QB500.268 .D479 2008 

The lightness of being : mass, ether, and the unification of forces / Frank Wilczek.  
QC171.2 .W55 2008 

Measurement of the relative abundances of the ultra-heavy galactic cosmic rays 
(30 [less than or equal to] Z [less than or equal to] 40) with the trans-iron 
galactic element recorder (TIGER) instrumen  
LD5791.8.PhD2008 R27 

The natural laws of the universe : understanding fundamental constants / 
Jean-Philippe Uzan, Bénédicte Leclercq.  
QB981 .U93 2008 

NMR probeheads for biophysical and biomedical experiments : theoretical principles 
& practical guidelines / Joël Mispelter, Mihaela Lupu, André Briguet.  
QC762 .M58 2006 

The Painlevé handbook / Robert Conte, Micheline Musette.  
QC20.7.D5 C667 2008 

Particle swarm optimization : a physics-based approach / Said M. Mikki and Ahmed 
A. Kishk.  
QC20.7.M27 M55 2008 

Phenomenological properties of high density quark matter / by Matthew Lee Braby.  
LD5791.8.PhD2008 B67 

Principles and applications of powder diffraction / edited by Abraham Clearfield, 
Joseph Reibenspies, Nattami Bhuvanesh.  
QC482.D5 P75 2008 

Quantum computing without magic : devices / Zdzislaw Meglicki.  
QA76.889 .M44 2008 

Quantum mechanics / Alastair I. M. Rae.  
QC174.12 .R33 2008 

Quantum mechanics : a stochastic approach / R. Vasudevan, K.V. Parthasarathy, R. 
Ramanathan.  
QC174.17.S76 V37 2008 

Rotation and accretion powered pulsars / Pranab Ghosh.  
QB843.P8 G46 2007 

Structure and dynamics of membranous interfaces / edited by Kaushik Nag.  
QC173.4.I57 S77 2008 

Undermining science : suppression and distortion in the Bush Administration / 
Seth Shulman.  
Q127.U6 S49 2006

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