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Physics and Astronomy:

A Research Guide


Contents: General Guides | Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | Handbooks and Tables | Indexes

General Guides

Home, Roderick Weir. The History of Classical Physics: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1984.
Location: Morris Library (Z7141 .H65 1984)
Information Sources in Physics. 3rd ed. London; New Jersey: Boston: Bowker-Saur, 1994.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref QC5.45 .I54x 1994)
Location: Physics Library - Reference (Ref QC5.45 .I54x 1994)
Seal, Robert A. A Guide to the Literature of Astronomy. Littleton, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 1977.
Location: Physics Library (Z5151 .S4)
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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Besancon, Robert M., ed. The Encyclopedia of Physics. 3rd ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinbhold Co., c1985.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref QC5 .E546 1985)
Location: Physics Library - Reference (Ref QC5 .E546 1985)
Cambridge Dictionary of Astronomy. Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref QB14 .M55 2001)
Location: Physics Library - Reference (Ref QB14 .M55 2001)
The Facts on File Dictionary of Physics. 3rd ed. Edited by John Daintith and John Clark. New York: Checkmark Books, c1999.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref QC5 .F34 1999)
Location: Morris Library (QC5 .F34 1999)
A Dictionary of Physics. 5th ed. Oxford, England, and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Location: Physics Library - Reference (Ref QC5 .C56 2005)
Encyclopedia of Physics. 3rd ed. Edited by Rita G. Lerner and George L. Trigg. Weinheim: VCH, c2005.
Location: Physics Library - Reference (Ref QC5.E545 2005)
Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Editor-in-chief Paul Murdin. 4 vols. Bristol; Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Pub.; London; New York: Nature Pub. Group, 2001.
Location: Physics Library - Reference (Ref QB14 .E534 2001)
Rigden, John S. ed. Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics. New York: Macmillan, c1996.
Location: Physics Library - Reference (Ref QC5 .M15 1996)
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Handbooks and Tables

American Institute of Physics. AIP Style Manual. 4th ed. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1990.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref QC5.45 .A45 1990)
Location: Physics Library - Reference (Ref QC5.45 .A45 1990)
Location: Internet (http://www.aip.org/pubservs/style/4thed/toc.html)
AIP Physics Desk Reference. 3rd ed. Edited by E. Richard Cohen, David R. Lide, George L. Trigg. New York: AIP Press, c2003.
Location: Physics Library - Reference (Ref QC61.P49 2003)
American Institute of Physics. American Institute of Physics Handbook. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref QC61 .A5 1972)
Location: Physics Library - Reference (Ref QC61 .A5 1972)
Location: Marine Studies Library (QC61 .A5 1972)
Anderson, Herbert L., ed. A Physicist's Desk Reference. 2nd ed. of Physics Vade Mecum. New York: American Institute of Physics, 1989.
Location: Temporary Chemistry Library - Reference (Ref QC61 .P49 1989)
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Cleveland, OH: CRC Press. Annual.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref QD65 .A1 H35)
Location: Physics Library - Reference (Ref QD65 .A1 H35)
Location: Marine Studies Library - Reference (Ref QD65 .A1 H35)
Location: Morris Library (QD65 .A1 H35)
Cheremisinoff, Nicholas P. Unit Conversions and Formulas Manual. Ann Arbor, MI: Ann Arbor Science Publishers, c1980.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref Q199 .C46)
Jerrard, H.G. A Dictionary of Scientific Units: Including Dimensionless and Numbers and Scales. 6th ed. London and New York: Chapman & Hall, 1992.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref QC82 .J4 1992)
Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants. 16th ed. Essex, England and New York: Longman, 1995.
Location: Temporary Chemistry Library - Reference (Ref QC61 .K3 1995)
Tuma, Jan J. Handbook of Physical Calculations: Definitions, formulas, Technical Applications, Physical Tables, Conversion Tables, Graphs, Dictionary of Physical Terms. 2nd enl. and rev. ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1983.
Location: Physics Library - Reference (Ref QC61 .T85 1983)
Location: Morris Library (QC61 .T85 1983)
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Indexes

Web of Science.
Location: Library Databases

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