Physics Library News

September New Physics Books

Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics
QC173 A2543 v.60 (2011)

Electromagnetic behaviour of metallic wire structures / S. T. Chui, Lei Zhou.
TN690 .C5435 2013

The emergent multiverse : quantum theory according to the Everett interpretation / David Wallace.
QC174.12 .W35 2012

Fluid mechanics and the SPH method : theory and applications / by D. Violeau.
QA901 .V56 2012

Gravity's engines : how bubble-blowing black holes rule galaxies, stars, and life in the cosmos / Caleb Scharf.
QB843.B55 S33 2012

An introduction to black holes, information and the string theory revolution : the holographic universe / Leonard Susskind, James Lindesay.
QB843.B55 S97 2005

Mathematical foundations of imaging, tomography and wavefield inversion / Anthony J. Devaney.
QC174.26.W28 D382 2012

Micromagnetics and recording materials / by Dan Wei.
QC760 .W45 2012

Nanodust in the solar system : discoveries and interpretations / Ingrid Mann, Nicole Meyer-Vernet, Andrzej Czechowski, editors.
QB791 .N36 2012

Nonlinear optics : phenomena, materials, and devices / George I. Stegeman, Robert A. Stegeman.
QC446.2 .S72 2012

Nuclear forces : the making of the physicist Hans Bethe / Silvan S. Schweber.
QC774.B4 S39 2012

The picture book of quantum mechanics / Siegmund Brandt, Hans Dieter Dahmen.
QC174.12 .B73 2012

Plasmonics : from basics to advanced topics / Stefan Enoch, Nicolas Bonod, editors.
QC176.8.P55 P532 2012

Progress in optics
QC351 P7 v.57 (2012)

Stephen Hawking : an unfettered mind / Kitty Ferguson.
QC16.H33 F465 2012

You want me to teach what? : sure-fire methods for teaching physical science and math / Norman LaFave.
QC20.8 .L34 2012

Recently Published Papers in Physics

• Title: Refining New-physics Searches in Β→Dτν with Lattice QCD
  Author(s): Bailey, J.A.; Bazavov, A.; Bernard, C.; Bouchard, C.M.; DeTar, C.; Daping Du; El-Khadra, A.X.; Foley, J.; Freeland, E.D.; Gaacutemiz, E.; Gottlieb, S.; Heller, U.M.; Jongjeong Kim; Kronfeld, A.S.; Laiho, J.; Levkova, L.; Mackenzie, P.B.; Meurice, Y.; Neil, E.T.; Oktay, M.B.; Si-Wei Qiu; Simone, J.N.; Sugar, R.; Toussaint, D.; Van de Water, R.S.; Ran Zhou
  Source: Physical Review Letters Volume: 109 Issue: 7 Pages: 071802 (6 pp.) Published: 17 Aug. 2012
  
  
• Title: Demagnetization-borne microscale skyrmions
  Author(s): Johnson, P.; Gangopadhyay, A.K.; Kalyanaraman, R.; Nussinov, Z.
  Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) Volume: 86 Issue: 6 Pages: 064427 (8 pp.) Published: 1 Aug. 2012
  
  
• Title: Neutral β-meson mixing from three-flavor lattice quantum chromodynamics: Determination of the SU(3)-breaking ratio ξ
  Author(s): Bazavov, A.; Bernard, C.; Bouchard, C.M.; DeTar, C.; Di Pierro, M.; El-Khadra, A.X.; Evans, R.T.; Freeland, E.D.; Gaacutemiz, E.; Gottlieb, S.; Heller, U.M.; Hetrick, J.E.; Jain, R.; Kronfeld, A.S.; Laiho, J.; Levkova, L.; Mackenzie, P.B.; Neil, E.T.; Oktay, M.B.; Simone, J.N.; Sugar, R.; Toussaint, D.; Van de Water, R.S.
  Source: Physical Review D Volume: 86 Issue: 3 Pages: 034503 (21 pp.) Published: 1 Aug. 2012
  
  
• TItle: Testing violations of Lorentz invariance with cosmic rays
  Author(s): Cowsik, R.; Madziwa-Nussinov, T.; Nussinov, S.; Sarkar, U.
  Source: Physical Review D Volume: 86 Issue: 4 Pages: 045024 (13 pp.) Published: 15 Aug. 2012
  
  
• Title: Universal spectral behavior of x²(ix)^ε potentials
  Author(s): Bender, C.M.; Hook, D.W.
  Source: Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics) Volume: 86 Issue: 2 Pages: 022113 (7 pp.) Published: Aug. 2012
  
  
• Title: Magnetic field dependence of the residual resistivity of the heavy-fermion metal CeCoIn₅
  Author(s): Shaginyan, V.R.; Msezane, A.Z.; Popov, K.G.; Clark, J.W.; Zverev, M.V.; Khodel, V.A.
  Source: Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) Volume: 86 Issue: 8 Pages: 085147 (5 pp.) Published: 15 Aug. 2012

Calling all Grad and Undergrad Students! Focus Groups!

The University Libraries is seeking feedback from students and asks: What do you need from your Libraries? How do you use the Libraries? What do you need that we don’t currently provide? These are just some of the questions we’d like to get your answers to. Based on past student feedback, the Libraries have made changes and launched new initiatives--what should we do next? Any currently enrolled WU undergraduate and graduate student is invited to join us for a one-hour session including pizza, drinks and conversation. Sign-up at http://bit.ly/S8oD6A.

BrowZine

BrowZine Trial - BrowZine is an iPad app with the look and feel of the iTunes bookstore, except it is for library journals. As you can see in the screenshot below, each journal title appears on the “bookshelf”.



Users can click to open the journal and browse the articles. The trial, which runs through October 15, is for a limited set of content and does not represent all of our journal holdings, but hopefully it will give you a sense of how the app would work, were the library to purchase it. With BrowZine you can:

• Browse titles by subject to easily find journals of interest
• Easily view table of contents of current past journals
• Create a personal bookshelf of favorite journals (when users add a journal title to their personal bookshelves, they are subsequently alerted when new articles appear in that journal – similar to an RSS feed).
• Save articles to Zotero, Dropbox, and other services
• Share with other researchers by posting to Facebook, Twitter and more

To download the app, you can search for and download BrowZine in the App Store or click the link here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/browzine-open-access-edition/id463787411?mt=8 There is a video demo of the product here: http://thirdiron.com/browzine-ipad-app/video/ Please send me your questions and feedback before October 15th.

Inspec Training Videos

The IET, creaters of INSPEC, has just released new videos about Inspec. Here are the links for the Thomson Web of Knowledge platform.

• An introduction to Inspec
• Inspec content and coverage
• Inspec subject indexing
• Inspec on the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge platform: subject search examples
• Inspec bibliographic fields: finding authors, companies and much more
• Inspec on the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge platform: author, affiliation and other special searches
• Inspec Archive

SCOAP3 Announcement

After six years of negotiation, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP³) is now close to ensuring that nearly all particle-physics articles — about 7,000 publications last year — are made immediately free on journal websites. There is also a good article in Nature.

Fall Break

The Physics Library will be closed on Friday, October 19 for Fall Break.

Library Classes

Upcoming classes from the library: http://wulibraries.doattend.com/.

KnowItAll U

KnowItAll U  provides an online spectral search/retrieval system of over 1.3 million spectra (IR, NMR, MS, Raman, UV-Vis) including chemical structures and properties. Users can access spectral data from virtually any hardware platform or operating system.

Physicists Eagerly Try New Teaching Methods but Often Drop Them, Study Finds

From the Chronicle of Higher Education: "Most physics professors have heard of and tried a teaching method beyond the traditional lecture, but one-third of those who have sampled such a technique later abandoned it, according to a new study.  About 88 percent of the physics faculty in the study knew about "research-based instructional strategies." Of that group, 82 percent had tried the strategies..." 

Contact me for the user name and password if you want to read more.