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Physics and Nuclear Engineering

A research guide for cadets taking P&NE courses or majoring in Physics and Nuclear Engineering.

Resources for Physics

Databases

  • APS Journals - Browse a full-text database of all scholarly journals and publications from the American Physical Society, a leading publisher in the field of physics.
  • Scitation - Portal to journals published and distributed by the American Institute of Physics and its member societies. Covers physics, astronomy, electronics, engineering, materials science, mathematics and associated disciplines. We subscribe to only some of the titles in this database.

  • IOP Science - Online service and index for content published by the Institute of Physics. Full text available for USMA subscribed titles.

  • Defense Technical Information Center - Citations to unclassified documents in DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, many with full text. …
  • Knovel - Contains online monographs and reference books in many areas of science and engineering. It can be used early in the research process to become aware of general safety information for particular activities, processes, and substances, as well as later in research to learn more specifics about substances. Included are interactive tools that normalize information across content sources and bring content to life by making tables, charts, equations, plotters and graphs interactive.
  • Science Collection - Updated daily, this collection includes 1.6 million articles and 200 journals. Explore the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas.
  • IEEE Xplore - Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and standards.
  • CRCnetBase - Search the science, technology, engineering and medicine eBook platform from CRC Press. Mobile app is also available.

 

Websites

  • re3data: Physics Data Repositories - Re3data is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. This list includes more than 300 repositories of physics-related data.
  • NIST Physical Reference Data (National Institute of Standards and Technology) - NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory provides repositories of reference data, including data on the elements, physical constants, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, x-rays and gamma rays, radiation dosimetry, nuclear physics, and condensed matter physics.
  • Open Textbook Library: Physics Collection - Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution.

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Overview

Welcome to the general Physics page! To the right, there's a list of (and links to) standard Physics reference books available through the USMA Library. Below you'll find links to Physics databases where you can find journal articles on Physics topics and a brief guide to browsing books on various Physics topics on our shelves. You are also able to search Scout or the Library Catalog; all our books, ebooks, and journals can be found that way.

What You Will Find Here

This page presents general resources for research on Physics topics. Use the information on this page to get started with your research, or follow the links below to more specific resources for your Physics courses.

Physics Databases at the USMA Library

Looking for journal articles on Physics topics? The USMA Library offers a variety of Physics databases that provide access to journal articles to help with your research. Find them here!

Looking for a good book on Physics?

Physics Books in the USMA Library

Are you curious about the Physics books we have here in the USMA Library? You can always use Scout or the Library Catalog to search for a book on a specific topic, but if you enjoy browsing the shelves, go up to the southeast side of the 5th floor and find the call numbers that start with "QC." Here's a general listing of subject areas:

QC1-999    Physics

  • QC1-75                General
  • QC81-114            Weights and measures
  • QC120-168.85    Descriptive and experimental mechanics
  • QC170-197          Atomic physics.
  • QC221-246          Acoustics.  Sound
  • QC251-338.5       Heat
  • QC350-467          Optics.  Light
  • QC474-496.9       Radiation physics (General)
  • QC501-766          Electricity and magnetism
  • QC770-798          Nuclear and particle physics.  Atomic energy.  Radioactivity
  • QC801-809          Geophysics.  Cosmic physics
  • QC811-849          Geomagnetism
  • QC851-999          Meteorology.  Climatology Including the earth's atmosphere

 

Physics Reference Books

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