Physics Library News

November New Physics Books

Collider : the search for the world's smallest particles / Paul Halpern. 
QC787.P73 H35 2009 

Computer simulation and data analysis in molecular biology and biophysics : an 
introduction using R / Victor Bloomfield. 
QH506 .B565 2009 

Cracking the Einstein code : relativity and the birth of black hole physics / Fulvio 
Melia ; with an afterword by Roy Kerr. 
QC173.6 .M434 2009 

Glimpses of creatures in their physical worlds / Steven Vogel. 
QH505 .V625 2009 

Handbook of anatomical models for radiation dosimetry / editors, Xie George Xu and 
Keith F. Eckerman. 
R905 .H36 2010 

Heat conduction / Latif M. Jiji. 
QC321 .J55 2009 

The Large Hadron Collider : a marvel of technology / edited by Lyndon Evans. 
QC787.P73 L37 2009 

Many-body methods in chemistry and physics : MBPT and coupled-cluster theory / Isaiah 
Shavitt and Rodney J. Bartlett. 
QC174.12 .S5219 2009 

Mathematics for physics : a guided tour for graduate students / Michael Stone and Paul 
Goldbart. 
QC20 .S76 2009 

Numerics of unilateral contacts and friction : modeling and numerical time integration 
in non-smooth dynamics / Christian Studer. 
TA353 .S78 2009 

Quantum field theory in curved spacetime : quantized fields and gravity / Leonard 
E. Parker, David J. Toms. 
QC174.45 .P367 2009 

Questioning the universe : concepts in physics / Ahren Sadoff. 
QC24.5 .S33 2009 

Questions of modern cosmology : Galileo's legacy / Mauro D'Onofrio, Carlo Burigana, 
editors. 
QB981 .Q47 2009 

Radiometric temperature measurements / edited by Zhang, Tsai, and Machin. 
QC271 .R336 2010 

Solid state theory : an introduction / U. Rössler. 
QC176 .R68 2009 

Solved problems in Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics / Claude Gignoux, Bernard 
Silvestre-Brac. 
QC174.85.H35 G54 2009 

Statistical field theory : an introduction to exactly solved models in statistical 
physics / Giuseppe Mussardo. 
QC173.7 .M87 2010 

Surface impedance boundary conditions : a comprehensive approach / Sergey V. Yuferev,
Nathan Ida. 
QC665.S3 Y84 2010 

Transport in nanostructures / David K. Ferry, Stephen M. Goodnick, Jonathan Bird. 
QC176.8.N35 F47 2009

Recently Published Papers In Physics

• Title: Spectroscopic factors in /sup 16/O and nucleon asymmetry
  Author(s): Barbieri, C.; Dickhoff, W.H.
  Source: International Journal of Modern Physics A vol.24, no.11 : 2060-8, 2009
• Title: Pedogenesis of lunar mare basalt meteorite miller range 05035
  Author(s): Yang Liu; Floss, C.; Day, J.M.D.; Hill, E.; Taylor, L.A.
  Source: Meteoritics & Planetary Science vol.44, no.2 : 261-84, 2009
• Title: Dual anode contact geometries for X-ray and gamma-ray spectroscopy and 3D localization
  Author(s): Martin, J.W.; Garson, A.B., III; Li, Q.; Lee, K.; Groza, M.; Buliga, V.; Burger, A.; Krawczynski, H.
  Source: Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering vol.7449 : 744904 (8 pp.), 2009
• Title: Observation of extended very high energy emission from the supernova remnant IC 443 with VERITAS
  Author(s): Acciari, V.A.; Aliu, E.; Arlen, T.; Aune, T.; Bautista, M.; Beilicke, M.; Benbow, W.; Bradbury, S.M.; Buckley, J.H.; Bugaev, V.; Butt, Y.; Byrum, K.; Cannon, A.; Celik, O.; Cesarini, A.; Chow, Y.C.; Ciupik, L.; Cogan, P.; Colin, P.; Cui, W.; Daniel, M.K.; Dickherber, R.; Duke, C.; Dwarkadas, V.V.; Ergin, T.; Fegan, S.J.; Finley, J.P.; Finnegan, G.; Fortin, P.; Fortson, L.; Furniss, A.; Gall, D.; Gibbs, K.; Gillanders, G.H.; Godambe, S.; Grube, J.; Guenette, R.; Gyuk, G.; Hanna, D.; Hays, E.; Holder, J.; Horan, D.; Hui, C.M.; Humensky, T.B.; Imran, A.; Kaaret, P.; Karlsson, N.; Kertzman, M.; Kieda, D.; Kildea, J.; Konopelko, A.; Krawczynski, H.; Krennrich, F.; Lang, M.J.; LeBohec, S.; Maier, G.; McCann, A.; McCutcheon, M.; Millis, J.; Moriarty, P.; Ong, R.A.; Otte, A.N.; Pandel, D.; Perkins, J.S.; Pohl, M.; Quinn, J.; Ragan, K.; Reyes, L.C.; Reynolds, P.T.; Roache, E.; Rose, H.J.; Schroedter, M.; Sembroski, G.H.; Smith, A.W.; Steele, D.; Swordy, S.P.; Theiling, M.; Toner, J.A.; Valcarcel, L.; Varlotta, A.; Vassiliev, V.V.; Vincent, S.; Wagner, R.G.; Wakely, S.P.; Ward, J.E.; Weekes, T.C.; Weinstein, A.; Weisgarber, T.; Williams, D.A.; Wissel, S.; Wood, M.; Zitzer, B.
  Source: Astrophysical Journal Letters vol.698, no.2 : L133-7, 2009
• Title: Complete correlation studies of two-proton decays: /sup 6/Be and /sup 45/Fe
  Author(s): Grigorenko, L.V.; Wiser, T.D.; Miernik, K.; Charity, R.J.; Pfutzner, M.; Banu, A.; Bingham, C.R.; Cwiok, M.; Darby, I.G.; Dominik, W.; Elson, J.M.; Ginter, T.; Grzywacz, R.; Janas, Z.; Karny, M.; Korgul, A.; Liddick, S.N.; Mercurio, K.; Rajabali, M.; Rykaczewski, K.; Shane, R.; Sobotka, L.G.; Stolz, A.; Trache, L.; Tribble, R.E.; Wuosmaa, A.H.; Zhukov, M.V.
  Source: Physics Letters B vol.677, no.1-2 : 30-5, 2009
• Title: Decoding beta -decay systematics: a global statistical model for beta /sup -/ half-lives
  Author(s): Costiris, N.J.; Mavrommatis, E.; Gernoth, K.A.; Clark, J.W.
  Source: Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics) vol.80, no.4 : 044332 (21 pp.), 2009
• Title: Post-circular expansion of eccentric binary inspirals: fourier-domain waveforms in the stationary phase approximation
  Author(s): Yunes, N.; Arun, K.G.; Berti, E.; Will, C.M.
  Source: Physical Review D vol.80, no.8 : 084001 (24 pp.), 2009
• Title: Linear independence of nearest-neighbor valence-bond states on the kagome lattice and construction of SU(2)-invariant spin-12 Hamiltonian with a Sutherland-Rokhsar-Kivelson quantum liquid ground state
  Author(s): Seidel, A.
  Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) vol.80, no.16 : 165131 (16 pp.), 2009

CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics

New Edition of CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics Now Online! - The 90th edition, 2009-2010 is now available.

arXiv

Cornell University's arXiv project, which includes an e-print archive of scientific papers, is looking to covert the existing simple database to a more interactive one. It is being projected as a place where authors, articles, databases and readers talk to each other to help users identify a work's main concepts, see research reports in context and easily find related work. The project is funded by a three-year $883,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, with federal stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). New tools will link papers by concepts, not just by the citations they contain. This is expected to help users without advanced expertise understand the significance of new research. The system will also identify related databases and commentaries.

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.

Physics Library Intersession Hours

December 17, 2009 - January 15, 2010:
Monday - Friday, 7:30 am - 4:00 pm
Closed Friday, December 25, 2009 - Friday, January 1, 2010.
Closed Monday, January 18, 2010

October New Physics Books

Annual reports on NMR spectroscopy 
QC762 A55 v.66 (2009) 

Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics 
QB9 A6 v.47 (2009) 

Building scientific apparatus / John H. Moore, Christopher C. Davis, Michael A. 
Coplan ; with a chapter by Sandra C. Greer. 
Q185 .M66 2009 

Dynamics of one-dimensional quantum systems : inverse-square interaction models / 
Yoshio Kuramoto, Yusuke Kato. 
QC176.8.E4 K867 2009

Electromagnetic simulation techniques based on the FDTD method / Wenhua Yu ... [et al.]. 
QC760 .E424 2009 

Energy and mass in relativity theory / Lev B. Okun. 
QC173.65 .O48 2009 

Exploding superstars : understanding supernovae and gamma-ray bursts / Alain Mazure 
and Stéphane Basa. 
QB843.S95 M3913 2009 

Explorations : an introduction to astronomy / Thomas T. Arny, Stephen E. Schneider. 
QB45.2 .A76 2009 

Fundamentals of thermodynamics and applications : with historical annotations and 
many citations from Avogadro to Zermelo / Ingo Müller, Wolfgang H. Müller. 
TJ265 .M77 2009 

Heliophysics : plasma physics of the local cosmos / edited by Carolus J. Schrijver, 
George L. Siscoe. 
QB529 .H44 2009 

In the name of science? : P.J.W. Debye and his career in Nazi Germany / Martijn 
Eickhoff ; translated by Peter Mason. 
QC16.D43 E5313 2008 

LEP : the lord of the collider rings at CERN 1980-2000 : the making, operation and 
legacy of the world's largest scientific instrument / Herwig Schopper ; with a 
foreword by Rolf-Dieter Heuer. 
QC787.C59 S36 2009

The manual of scientific style : a guide for authors, editors, and researchers / 
edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Suzanne Vogel.
[electronic resource]

Nuclear reactions for astrophysics : principles, calculation and applications of 
low-energy reactions / Ian J. Thompson and Filomena M. Nunes. 
QB464 .T46 2009 

Pattern formation and dynamics in nonequilibrium systems / Michael Cross, Henry 
Greenside. 
Q172.5.C45 C76 2009 

Physics of the sun : a first course / Dermott J. Mullan. 
QB521 .M75 2010 

The primordial density perturbation : cosmology, inflation and the origin of 
structure / David H. Lyth, Andrew R. Liddle. 
QB361 .L98 2009 

Relativity and the nature of spacetime / Vesselin Petkov. 
QC173.59.S65 P47 2009 

Rheophysics : the deformation and flow of matter / Patrick Oswald ; translated 
by Doru Constantin. 
QC189.5 O6913 2009 

The silicon web : physics for the Internet age / Michael G. Raymer. 
QC23.2 .R36 2009 

Solid State Engineering Physics / Prabir K. Basu, Hrishikesh Dhasmana. 
QC176 .B37 2009 

Statistical mechanics / Scott Sheffield, Thomas Spencer, editors. 
QC174.82 .S73 2009

Recently Published Papers in Physics

• Title: Three-body decay of /sup 6/Be
  Author(s): Grigorenko, L.V.; Wiser, T.D.; Mercurio, K.; Charity, R.J.; Shane, R.; Sobotka, L.G.; Elson, J.M.; Wuosmaa, A.H.; Banu, A.; McCleskey, M.; Trache, L.; Tribble, R.E.; Zhukov, M.V.
  Source: Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics) vol.80, no.3 : 034602 (18 pp.), 2009
  
• Title: Precessing supermassive black hole binaries and dark energy measurements with LISA
  Author(s): Stavridis, A.; Arun, K.G.; Will, C.M.
  Source: Physical Review D vol.80, no.6 : 067501 (4 pp.), 2009
  
• Title: Secular evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters in decaying dark matter cosmology
  Author(s): Ferrer, F.; Nipoti, C.; Ettori, S.
  Source: Physical Review D vol.80, no.6 : 061303 (5 pp.), 2009
  
• Title: Lunar meteorite LaPaz Icefield 04841: petrology, texture, and impact-shock effects of a low-Ti mare basalt
  Author(s): Hill, E.; Taylor, L.A.; Floss, C.; Yang Liu
  Source: Meteoritics & Planetary Science vol.44, no.1 : 87-94, 2009
  
• Title: Renormalization, duality, and phase transitions in two- and three-dimensional quantum dimer models
  Author(s): Nogueira, F.S.; Nussinov, Z.
  Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) vol.80, no.10 : 104413 (14 pp.), 2009

ITeach

ITeach 2010, a faculty-development symposium, will be held on January 14, 2010, from 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Seigle Hall, on the Danforth Campus. The symposium includes a plenary discussion and 16 concurrent sessions. It is a great opportunity to gather with colleagues to discuss teaching and to learn about innovative and effective teaching strategies that have been developed here at Washington University. ITeach is coordinated by the Teaching and Technology Partnership (Arts & Sciences, The Teaching Center, and University Libraries). For more information and to register, please go to http://iteach.wustl.edu.  In addition, see the Fall newsletter at ITeach Newsletter - Fall 2009.

Thanksgiving Holiday

The Physics Library will be closed November 26-27, 2009 for the Thanksgiving holiday.