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The library has purchased a one-year subscription to the online content of the SPIE. To gain access, select from the e-journal list on the the library website or use this direct proxy link: http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/1658

The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 275,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than
17,000 new research papers are added annually. (Note that SPIE now includes some eBooks, but they're not included in our subscription.)

Since we're treating this subscription as a "trial" for this year, I'd appreciate any feedback you have on this subscription.

Here's a selection of the new Physics and Astronomy books in Walter Library. You can view the entire list on our New Books Website.

QB471.7.B85 H86 2008
Gamma-ray bursts : 6th Huntsville symposium : Huntsville, Alabama, 20-23 October 2008
Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, 2009.
xiii, 537 p.
Link to MnCat Record


QB801 .B54 2009
The biggest, baddest, coolest stars : proceedings of a workshop held at the Millennium Centre, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA, 16-18 July 2007
San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, c2009.
xii, 263 p.
Link to MnCat Record

QC1 .L4x 783
Bona, Carles.
Elements of numerical relativity and relativistic hydrodynamics : from Einstein's equations to astrophysical simulations
2nd ed.
Berlin : Springer, c2009.
xiv, 214 p.
Lecture notes in physics,
Link to MnCat Record

QC174.45 .P367 2009
Parker, Leonard Emanuel, 1938-
Quantum field theory in curved spacetime : quantized fields and gravity
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
xiv, 455 p.
Link to MnCat Record

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Here are the new physics and astronomy books received at Walter. As always you may check our new books list for all the new books received in Science and Engineering subjects.

QB981 .P48 2009
Primordial cosmology.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
xix, 836 p. ; 26 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

QC176.8.N35 C33 2009
Cademartiri, Ludovico.
Concepts of nanochemistry.
Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2009.
xix, 261 p. ; 25 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

QB801 .B54 2009
The biggest, baddest, coolest stars : proceedings of a workshop held at the Millennium Centre, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA, 16-18 July 2007
San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, c2009.
xii, 263 p.
Link to MnCat Record

QC793.3.S8 N83 2009
Nuclear structure and dynamics '09 : proceedings of the international conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 4-8 May 2009.
Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, c2009.
xvi, 461 p. ; 25 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

Here are the new physics and astronomy books received at Walter. As always you may check our new books list for all the new books received in Science and Engineering subjects.

QB471.A1 W67 2008
Science with the new generation of high energy gamma-ray experiments : proceedings of the 6th edition : bridging the gap between GeV and TeV : Abano Terme, Italy, 8-10 October 2008.
Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, 2009.
viii, 244 p. ; 24 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

QB539.P58 S65 2007
Solar Polarization 5 : in honor of Jan Olof Stenflo : proceedings of a workshop held at Centro Stefano Franscini-Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, 17-21 September 2007
San Francisco : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2009.
xxiv, 553 p.
Link to MnCat Record

QB755 .C65 2009
Cokinos, Christopher.
The fallen sky : an intimate history of shooting stars
New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2009.
517 p. ; 24 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

QC1 .N335 2008
National Society of Black Physicists. Day of Scientific Lectures (35th : 2008 : Washington, D.C.
Proceedings of the National Society of Black Physicists : 35th Annual Day of Scientific Lectures and 31st Annual Meeting : 2008 joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists, Washington, D.C., 20-23 February 2008 / editor, Hakeem M. Oluseyi.
Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, 2009.
xxiv, 200 p.
Link to MnCat Record

QC7 .G65 2009
Glasner, Ruth.
Averroes' physics : a turning point in medieval natural philosophy
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
ix, 229 p. ; 23 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

many more...keep reading!

Here are the new physics and astronomy books received at Walter. As always you may check our new books list for all the new books received in Science and Engineering subjects.

QC133 .Z56 2009
Zimba, Jason, 1969-
Force and motion : an illustrated guide to Newton's laws
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
ix, 428 p.
Link to MnCat Record

QC173.6 .R93 2009
Ryder, Lewis H., 1941-
Introduction to general relativity
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
xv, 441 p.
Link to MnCat Record

QC174.4 .S35 2009
Schieve, W. C.
Quantum statistical mechanics
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
xiv, 414 p. ; 26 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

QC176.8.E4 N398 2009
Nazarov, Yuli V.
Quantum transport : introduction to nanoscience
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
viii, 581 p. ; 25 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

Keep reading...many more!

Here are the new physics and astronomy books received at Walter. As always you may check our new books list for all the new books received in Science and Engineering subjects.

QC176.8.T8 Q83 2009
Quantum tunnelling in enzyme-catalysed reactions.
Cambridge, UK : Royal Society of Chemistry, c2009.
xxv, 385 p.
Link to MnCat Record

QB991.C64 P44 2009
Peebles, P. J. E. (Phillip James Edwin)
Finding the big bang
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
xvi, 571 p.
Link to MnCat Record

QB88 .S356 2009
Schilling, Govert.
Eyes on the skies: 400 years of telescopic discovery.
Weinheim: Wiley-VCH; Chichester: John Wiley [distributor], c2009.
132 p.
Link to MnCat Record

The online version of this useful handbook is now linked off of the Physics and Astronomy Library Resource page.

Title: Handbook of Mathematical Functions
URL: http://www.knovel.com.floyd.lib.umn.edu/web/portal/basic_search/display?_EXT_KNOVEL_DISPLAY_bookid=528

Description: This book is a compendium of mathematical formulas, tables, and graphs. It contains a table of analytical integrals, differential equations, and numerical series; and includes tables of trigonometric and hyperbolic functions, tables for numerical integration, rules for differentiation and integration, and techniques for point interpolation and function approximation. Additionally, it devotes a entire section to mathematical and physical constants as fractions and powers of Pi, e, and prime numbers; and discusses statistics by presenting combinatorial analysis and probability functions.

Location: TC Mathematics Library Reference (Tables) QA3 .U5x 55 Two Week Loan TC Walter Sci/Eng Library Books (Level F) Quarto QA3 .U5x 55 1972

Here are the new physics and astronomy books received at Walter. As always you may check our new book list for all the new books received in Science and Engineering subjects.

QC20.7.S8 M34 2009
Mahnke, R. (Reinhard)
Physics of stochastic processes : how randomness acts in time.
Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2009.
xvii, 430 p. ; 24 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

QB791.3 .D35 2007
Dark matter in astroparticle and particle physics : Dark 2007, proceedings of the 6th International Heidelberg Conference, University of Sydney, Australia, 24-28 September 2007
Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2008.
xv, 631 p.
Link to MnCat Record

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Here are the new physics and astronomy books received at Walter. As always you may check our new book list for all the new books received in Science and Engineering subjects.

QC174.12 .G528 2008
Gilder, Louisa.
The age of entanglement : when quantum physics was reborn
1st ed.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
xvi, 443 p.

Link to MnCat Record

E Book
Organic semiconductors in sensor applications [electronic resource]
Berlin : Springer, c2008.
xv, 287 p.
Full Text: https://www.lib.umn.edu/slog.phtml?url=http://www.myilibrary.com?id=123168
Link to MnCat Record

QB790 .T73 2008
Trakhtengerts, V. IU.
Whistler and Alfven mode cyclotron masers in space
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
x, 354 p.

Link to MnCat Record

E Book
Chow, Tai L.
Gravity, black holes, and the very early universe [electronic resource] : an introduction to general relativity and cosmology
New York : Springer, 2008.
xv, 280 p.
Full Text: https://www.lib.umn.edu/slog.phtml?url=http://www.myilibrary.com?id=133800
Link to MnCat Record

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New Astronomy and Physics Books. For a complete list of all the new books received at Walter Library visit: http://sciweb.lib.umn.edu/newbooks/
Featured titles:

QB461 .B67 2008
Bradt, Hale, 1930-
Astrophysics processes : the physics of astronomical phenomena
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
xxviii, 504 p. ; 26 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

QB843.N4 C66 2008
Cool discs, hot flows : the varying faces of accreting compact objects : Funasdalen, Sweden, 25-30 March 2008.
Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, 2008.
ix, 234 p. ; 23 cm.
Link to MnCat Record



QC16.K24 D4513 2007
Delft, Dirk van.
Freezing physics : Hieke Kamerlingh Onnes and the quest for cold.
Amsterdam : Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2007.
vi, 664 p. ; 26 cm.
Link to MnCat Record



QC171.2 .W55 2008
Wilczek, Frank.
The lightness of being : mass, ether, and the unification of forces.
New York, NY : Basic Books, c2008.
xi, 270 p., [4] p. of plates ; 25 cm
Link to MnCat Record

Many more...read on!

QB15 .N67 2008
North, John David.
Cosmos : an illustrated history of astronomy and cosmology
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008
xxv, 876 p., [16] p. of plates
Link to MnCat Record

QC174.12 .S74 2008
Steward, E. G. (Edward G.), 1923-
Quantum mechanics : its early development and the road to entanglement.
London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub., c2008.
xxi, 257 p. ; 23 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

QC879.8 .V65 2008
Volk, Tyler.
CO rising : the world's greatest environmental challenge
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
xvi, 223 p. ; 22 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

Many more...keep reading!

The library is interested in obtaining your extra copies of AIP conference proceedings. This is a series that we purchase on a case-by-case basis at a considerable cost ($150-$450 per volume). Therefore, to avoid gaps in the collection and archive your work, please consider gifting any additional copies of AIP published proceedings to the library, if not previously owned (check http://MNCat.lib.umn.edu before mailing the item).

Here are some examples of recent 2008 proceedings that the library is seeking:

• $89 PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH CONFERENCE
  
• $165 SMART DEVICES: MODELING OF MATERIAL SYSTEMS: An International Workshop;
  
• $399 THE XV INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON RHEOLOGY: The Society of Rheology 80th Annual Meeting
  

The library recently purchased these proceedings:
$270 FIRST STARS III: First Stars II Conference
$218 ORIGIN OF MATTER AND EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES: The 10th International Symposium
$199 THE EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES THROUGH THE NEUTRAL HYDROGEN WINDOW
$209 PARTICLE ACCELERATION AND TRANSPORT IN THE HELIOSPHERE AND BEYOND: 7th Annual International Astrophysics Conference

Encyclopedia of Applied Physics Now Available Online

Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
• URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/eoappphys
• Location: WALTER Sci/Eng Reference QC5 .E543 1991

Provides the basic principles and in-depth coverage of all technically pertinent areas of modern-day physics, coupled with technological applications from real life. Key subject areas covered include the basics, methods, and applications—as well as all the neighboring fields of physics and engineering. The encyclopedia comprehensively covers such specific topics as: optics, laser physics, solid state and semiconductor physics, atom and nuclear physics, and biophysics.

View New Books for the physical sciences and engineering updated monthly on the Sci/Eng Library web site at http://sciweb.lib.umn.edu/newbooks/

E-book
Encyclopedia of applied physics [electronic resource] /
[New York, N.Y.] : Wiley, [2002?]-
Link to MNCat
Internet Access


QC20.7.G76 Q36 2008
Quantum groups.
Zurich : European Mathematical Society, c2008.
vi, 133 p. ; 24 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

QC174.12 .S896 2008
Susskind, Leonard.
The black hole war : my battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics
1st ed.
New York : Little, Brown, 2008.
viii, 470 p.
Link to MnCat Record

Many more new books for September...

Catch up on summer reading? We’ve updated our new books list to include the titles that we received in July and August. Follow the links to peruse our newest Physics and Astronomy titles.

View a list of all the new books that have come into the Science and Engineering Library.

If you have an idea for a book that you’d like to see purchased or a topic that you would like to suggest that I purchase on, I’m be happy to hear your thoughts. Email me.

Since Google Books can get full-text scanned books online...why not the library? The library recently purchased the entire Springer book collection electronically. The Springer e-book collection includes:

• all books printed since 2005-
  
• 23 book series going back to 1997 (such as Springer Series in Optical Sciences and Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)
  
• 14 titles with complete online archives going back to volume 1, issue 1 such as:
  Advances in Polymer Science
  Advances in Solid State Physics
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  Lecture Notes in Mathematics
  Lecture Notes in Physics
  Springer Tracts in Modern Physics
  Topics in Applied Physics
  

Only half of the collection is loaded into the library system so far and the rest are being added daily. The e-book collection will expand as new titles become available and is projected to grow by the thousands each year! Currently, there are over 600 Physics and Astronomy titles. For a complete list of titles to-date download the excel spreadsheet.

Furthermore, Springer is going to a “born digital production model with 80-100% of books projected to be “born digital� by the end of 2008." What this means for the library is that we will stop purchasing the print version of each Springer title (since this would duplicate what is available electronically) and instead upload the url's into the library catalog for instant access. If there are Springer titles that you feel must remain in print here in the library, please let me know!

Note: The library has significantly increased its collection of electronic books by purchasing all of Springer's ebooks from 2005 to the present. There were so many new ebooks this month that it is not practical to include all of them, so the Springer titles in this list represent only a sampling. You can find over 5000 Springer ebooks in our catalog. You can see the full package at www.springerlink.com

New physics and astronomy books for May (check MNCAT for availability and to "Get it" delivered to your office)
There are lots of e-books this month. How do you feel about that?

QB405 .L674 2008
Lorenz, Ralph, 1969-
Titan unveiled : Saturn's mysterious moon explored.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
xii, 243 p. ; 24 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

QB450 .M37 2008
Marion, Giles M. (Giles Michael)
Cold aqueous planetary geochemistry with FREZCHEM : from modeling to the search for life at the limits.
Berlin : Springer, c2008.
x, 251 p. ; 25 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

QC1 .N38 2007
National Society of Black Physicists. Annual Day of Scientific Lectures (34th : 2007 : Boston, Mass.)
Proceedings of the National Society of Black Physicists : 34th Annual Day of Scientific Lectures and 30th Annual Meeting : 2007 Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, 2008.
172 p. ; 25 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

E Book
Cassidy, David C., 1945-
Understanding physics [electronic resource]
Norwood Mass. : Books24x7.com [2005?]
Full Text: https://www.lib.umn.edu/slog.phtml?url=http://www.books24x7.com/marc.asp?bookid=16303
Link to MnCat Record

Astronomy

QB1 .N356 2008
The National Virtual Observatory : tools and techniques for astronomical research : proceedings of summer schools held at Aspen, Colorado, USA in 2004, 2005 and 2006
San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, c2008.
xxv, 713 p.
Link to MnCat Record

Reference, Non-Circulating QB14 .M553 2007
Mitton, Jacqueline.
Cambridge illustrated dictionary of astronomy
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
vi, 397 p.
Link to MnCat Record

QB462.65 .I83 2007
Relativistic astrophysics : 4th Italian-Sino Workshop, Pescara, Italy 20-28 July 2007.
Melville, NY : American Institute of Physics, c2008.
xiii, 354 p. ; 28 cm.
Link to MnCat Record

QB465 .U65 2008
The universe at sub-second timescales : high time resolution astrophysics : Edinburgh, Scotland, 11-13 September 2007.
Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, 2008.
ix, 284 p. ; 25 cm.
Link to MnCat Record


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Physics

QC1 .L4x 724
Topics in strangeness nuclear physics
Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2007.
xi, 193 p.
Lecture notes in physics,
Link to MnCat Record

QC16.E5 S3285 2008
Schweber, S. S. (Silvan S.)
Einstein and Oppenheimer : the meaning of genius
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
xiv, 412 p.
Link to MnCat Record

QC16.R8 R44 2008
Reeves, Richard, 1936-
A force of nature : the frontier genius of Ernest Rutherford
1st ed.
New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2008.
207 p.
Link to MnCat Record


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If you have suggestions of books the Science and Engineering Library should buy, this is a particularly good time to let me know. For the fifth year, the IT Endowed Library Fund is providing money for purchase of library books in all subjects covered by IT, which should provide about 20 new books in physics and astronomy. To be included in this project, I'll need your suggestions by April 18, but please feel free at any time to send me recommendations of books you think the library should have.

FYI, the IT Endowed Library Fund has provided over 400 books for the Science & Engineering Library and the Math Library in the past 4 years.

Each month our new book list is updated to display any item within the physics or astronomy subject areas. You may check out other subjects as well, like chemistry or geology, and past month's new book lists online at http://sciweb.lib.umn.edu/newbooks/Nwtitles.phtml. Please search MNCAT for availability.

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Astronomy

QB1 .A38x 35
Trans-Neptunian objects and comets
Berlin : Springer, c2008.
ix, 258 p.

QB1 .A38x 36
Loeb, Abraham.
First light in the universe
Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2008.
viii, 371 p.

E Book
Workshop on astronomical site evaluation : San Pedro Martir, B.C., Mexico, marzo 13-15, 2007
Mexico, D.F. : Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, c2007.
vii, 135 p.

QB33.D48 A88 2007
Astronomy for the developing world : proceedings of special session no. 5 of the 26th IAU General Assembly held in Prague, the Czech Republic 21 and 22 August 2006
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
xii, 334 p.

QB466.C65 I58 2007
Astrophysics of compact objects : International Conference on Astrophysics of Compact Objects, Huangshan City, China, 1-7 July 2007.
Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, 2008.
xiii, 431 p. ; 25 cm.

QB468 .V54 2008
Vietri, Mario.
Foundations of high-energy astrophysics
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
xvii, 554 p.

QB470.A1 S35 2007
The science opportunities for the warm Spitzer mission workshop : Pasadena, California, 4-5 June 2007.
Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, c2007.
ix, 254 p. ; 24 cm.

QB791.3 .I59 2006
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter : Rhodes, Greece, 11-16 September 2006.
[Hackensack] N.J. : World Scientific, c2007.
xix, 682 p. ; 24 cm.

QB820 .C36 2004
Extrasolar planets : XVI Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
xiv, 268 p. ; 26 cm.

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Physics

QC1 .A3588 2007
Advanced Summer School in Physics 2007 : frontiers in contemporary physics, EAV07, Cinvestav, Mexico City, Mexico, 9-13 July 2007.
Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, 2007
xii, 242 p. ; 25 cm.
Link to MnCat Record