Category Archives: Physics

NOVA has a Physics Blog

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NOVA’s Physics Blog

·http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/blog/

“NOVA’s Physics Blog is billed as “the physics of nothing, everything, and all the things in between.” This “Nature of Reality” blog promises “a space that welcomes big ideas about space, time, and the universe.” The posts here include graphics, animations, and other visually compelling materials. Visitors can scroll down on the right side of the page to look over Recent Posts, Recent Comments, and the contributors to the blog. It’s a diverse group, including mathematician James Stein and physicist Frank Wilczek. Recent posts include “Why is the Higgs So Light?” and “Scientific Approaches to the Fine-Tuning Problem.” Each entry concludes with the Go Deeper area, which features the editor’s picks for further reading. [KMG]”

Source:  Today’s Scout Report from the University of Wisconsin

Interactive Physics Simulations

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“Interactive Physics Simulations [Flash]

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics

At the top of this site’s homepage, visitors will see a banner that proclaims “Over 70 million simulations delivered.” Needless to say, the Interactive Physics Simulations site is quite popular, and the offerings here can be used in the classroom or by persons with a general curiosity about static electricity, alpha decay, and other related topics. The site is sponsored by a range of institutions, including the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the National Science Foundation. The site includes three dozen different simulations, many of which are available in over a dozen languages, including French, Russian, Chinese, Italian, and Vietnamese. First-time visitors might want to start with the “Build an Atom” which affords visitors the opportunity to build an atom out of protons, neutrons, and electrons and then play a fun game after they’re done. Also, users can look at the simulations by topical headings, which include “Sound & Waves”, “Heat & Thermo”, and “Light & Radition”. ”

Source:  Scout Report, Univ. of Wisconsin, Apr. 13, 2012

Springer offers personal copies of their e-books for ~$25

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"More than 15,000 books included at $24.95/24,95 euros each

The MyCopy offer is currently valid on more than 15,000 electronic Springer books published since 2005. The new soft cover edition is branded as a MyCopy book with a color cover and black and white book content.

 
 

All books will be sold at the same price, $24.95 for customers in the US and Canada or 24,95 euros in Europe. Each price includes shipping and handling. Local VAT will be added.

 
 

MyCopy books can only be ordered by registered patrons of academic libraries that have purchased the corresponding eBook Collection. The entire ordering and shipping process will be handled by Springer in cooperation with a print-on-demand (POD) provider."

Princeton University subscribes to most of Springer’s ebook packages.

Source: a Springeralerts email, June

Journal Citation data released for 2009

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Journal Citation Reports (JCR) now has 10 years of journal metrics available:

Journal Citation Reports  (1999+)  (Science & Social Science Editions.)

From Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, "JCR claims to be the most widely used tool for assessing the world’s leading journals. The metrics it offers, including Journal Impact Factor, empower users to objectively evaluate a journal’s performance and its influence on research globally."  JCR ranks 9100 journals from 2200 publishers in 78 countries.

Source:  Knowledgespeak Newsletter, June 18, 2010

 

SCOPUS launches iPhone app — as of May 12th

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Today SCOPUS has launched their new mobile application for the iPhone.  If you have an iPhone, and since Princeton subscribes to SCOPUS, you are free to download it.

SCOPUS webpage announcement:

http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/bESC001/mSR4081F/uDF5Q4/xWHWI81F

SCOPUS — large Science, Technology & Medicine subscription database from Elsevier, 1996+

Landolt-Bornstein data series — online trial

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Princeton University Library has arranged for a trial of Landolt-Bornstein from SpringerMaterials.  The books which are housed in the Lewis Library have 8 groupings:

Elementary Particles, Nuclei and Atoms; Molecules and Radicals; Condensed Matter; Physical Chemistry; Geophysics; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Biophysics; and Advanced Materials and Technologies.

SpringerMaterials
Trial ends: 1/29/2010
Please forward comments to (Chemistry Librarian ) Julie Arnheim (jarnheim@princeton.edu)

Scitopia now with streamlined links to RefWorks

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"Federated search services provider Deep Web Technologies, US, has announced that its federated search product, Explorit Research Accelerator, now includes seamless integration with RefWorks, a web-based solution for citations management."

source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter, July 30, 2009

Scitopia was developed by 21 top technological and scientific societies.  It is a freely available database mainly in physics and engineering.  Component societies are listed on a webpage off www.scitopia.org.  It lists papers going back as early as 1665, some of which are digitized.

Full text is offered on a pay-per-view basis, so currently it is better to search Princeton’s subscription databases which have links to our full-text subscription resources.  INSPEC  and Compendex  cover even more resources than Scitopia.  IEEE  — Xplore & IEL — are other overlapping subscription databases we have, and they are completely full-text.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics 2008-2009

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The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is now in its 89th edition.

The current print edition is @ Lewis (Information Desk) Reference QD65 .H3 

*New Feature – Structure searching!

Now you can search the handbook by chemical structure. Simply download the intuitive Marvin Sketch Java Applet from ChemAxon and then draw your structure query. Search over 10,000 compounds! Try Structure Searching Now >

New Tables  include:

  • Energy Content of Fuels
  • Global Warming Potential of Greenhouse Gases
  • Weather-Related Scales