Physics
The library's physics collection dates back to the late ninteenth century but expands in the early twentieth century. We now actively collect materials in all areas of physics, with a large number of print and online books and journals supplemented by other online resources.
Newly arrived print journal issues in Physics
Most recent print journals are available in our Periodicals Reading Room (third floor, to the right of the elevator).
Physics News
- Physics Today
- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Electronic Books
- ProQuest: Find theses and dissertations (full-text; 1637-2016)
- Science Direct: Physics and astronomy
- SpringerLink: Physics
- Wiley Online Library: Physics
Recommended eBooks
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - online version in the library only, except for members of the ChemTK community, who have remote access when authenticated to the ChemTK network.
Print Books
Books about physics are on the fifth floor, shelves 5B 034-5C 039, call (location) numbers QC1-999.
Subject | Shelf | Call Number |
---|---|---|
Physics - general | 5B034-094 | QC1-75 |
Measurement, weights and measures | 5B095-097 | QC81-114 |
Descriptive and experimental mechanics | 5B098-104 | QC120-168.86 |
Solid state physics, composition of matter | 5B105-132 | QC170-197 |
Sound, light, heat | 5B133 | QC220-220.5 |
Acoustics, sound | 5B134-139 | QC221-246 |
Heat, thermal | 5B140-149 | QC251-338.5 |
Optics | 5B150-164 | QC350-467 |
Radiation, radiation physics | 5B165 | QC474-496.9 |
Electricity and magnetism | 5B166-181 | QC501-766 |
Nuclear physics, atomic energy, radioactivity | 5C001-31 | QC770-798 |
Geophysics, space physics | 5C032-35 | QC801-809 |
The magnetic field of the earth, geomagnetism | 5C036 | QC811-849 |
Meteorology, climatology | 5C037-39 | QC851-999 |
Recommended Books
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - In print (2008-present).
- Also available (in the library only) online (see above)
Historical Books
- Search items in our rare books collection published before 1920
- Read reviews of selected historical titles (in Czech).
Online articles
- AIP Scitation - Database of more than two million articles from American Institute of Physics.
- arXiv.org - Electronic archive of scientific preprint and postprint full-texts, scientific research and technical reports and theses. More than 600,000 records in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics.
- ICTP Preprints Archive
- IOPscience - Titles from the Institute of Physics, one of the world's leading publishers in physics and related sciences. Most articles include a list of references plus links to the abstracts of cited publications.
- Other recommended databases
- ProQuest: Find theses and dissertations (full-text; 1637-2016)
- Science Direct: Physics and astronomy
- SpringerLink: Physics
- Wiley Online Library: Physics
- American Institute of Physics - Complete
- APS Journals
- Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
Electronic Journals
Print Journals
Recent issues of print journals in physics are located in the Periodicals Reading Room on the third floor, mostly on shelves 3D054-059.
Reference resources
- ALDEBARAN - Czech electronic textbooks in astrophysics and plasma physics with plenty of animations and illustrations.
- CERN Document Server - Document and multimedia archives from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) containing more than 1,030,000 bibliographic records and full-text documents in physics.
- inSPIRE High-Energy Literature Database
- SCOAP3 repository (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) - Contains freely accessible articles about nuclear and particle physics. More information.
- Superconductivity Papers Database - Database of articles on superconductivity. Provided by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and the International Superconductivity Technology Center Foundation (ISTEC) in Japan.
Other Electronic Resources.
Web pages
Featured: Physics@MIT OpenCourseware: Syllabi and multimedia course materials for undergraduates.
- conVERTER - Unit conversions, physical tables, biographies of physicists and information about the Nobel Prize. More than seven hundred units divided into topics according to variables.
- PhysNet - International resource with a list of sites and documents sorted by country of origin; online journals; conferences; job offers; and learning resources.
- Surface Evolver -A free interactive program for the modeling liquid surfaces shaped by various forces and constraints.
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