PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY
& MATHEMATICS

Oklahoma Baptist University                                                                                                          Updated October 2003

Introduction

Need an encyclopedia on physics? Looking for data on stellar bodies? Need information on weights and measures, formulas and/or experiments? Looking for information on a particular mathematical equation? These and other questions can be answered with the aid of the resources listed below.  If you have additional questions, ask the librarians.  They are ready to assist you in finding the information you need.


General Background Information

Almanac for Computers

DOC D 213.14

American Men and Women of Science

Ref 925 A51

Astronomical Phenomena for the Year

DOC D 213.8/3

Astronomy Data Book

Ref 523 R662a

Atlas of the Universe

Ref 523 M823a

Bibliography and Research Manual of the History of Mathematics

Ref 510.9016 M4676

Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians

Ref 510.922 B615ds

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Ref 530 C911L80

Cambridge  Astronomy Dictionary

Ref 520 C178ri

Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy

Ref 523 C178au

Complete Metric System with the International System of Units

Ref 389.152 L548c

Complete Multilingual Dictionary of Aviation and Aeronautical Terminology

Ref 629.1303 D369c

Conversion Factors

Ref 502.12 C771cf

CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics

Ref 510.3 W433cm

Dictionary of Named Effects and Laws in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics

Ref 503 B19d2

Dictionary of Physics and Mathematics Abbreviations, Signs and Symbols

Ref 530 D554

Dictionary of Space Technology

Ref 629.403 A584dt2

Encyclopedia of Modern Physics

Ref 530.03 E53mey

Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy

Ref 543.0858 P447ES

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics

Ref 510.3 I96e2

German-English Mathematical Dictionary

Ref 510.3 H99g

Handbook of Mathematical, Scientific, and Engineering Formulas, Tables, Functions, Graphs, Transforms

Ref 510.212 H236fo

Handbook of Physical Quantities

Ref 530.0212 H236grv

History of Astronomy: An Encyclopedia

Ref 520.3 H673lkd

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Space Technology: A Comprehensive History of Space Exploration

Ref 629.403 I29c

International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology...

Ref 508 N27i

International Encyclopedia of Astronomy

Ref 520.321 I61mo

Mathematics Dictionary

>Ref 510.3 J27md4

McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Ref 503 M147pk4

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Astronomy

Ref 523.003 M147pk

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Physics

Ref 530.0321 M147pk

NASA Aeronautics: Research and Technology

DOC NAS 1.83: 122

NASA Factbook

Ref 629.4 R411n

New Dictionary of Physics

Ref 530.03 G779m2

Nobel Prize Winners: Physics

Ref 530.092 N744mg

Observing Handbook and Catalogue of Deep-Sky Objects

Ref 522 L951oo

Ocran’s Acronyms: A Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in Scientific and Technical Writing

Ref 501.48 O19O

Omni Space Almanac

Ref 629.4 M114o

Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of Mathematics

Ref 510.321 P927w

Scientific Unit Conversion: A Practical Guide to Metrication

Ref 530.812 C266suc

Star Guide

Ref 523.8 B573sg

Statistics

Ref 510 L793s

Telescope Handbook and Star Atlas

Ref 520 H851t

USA in Space

Ref 387.8 U84mgi

Van Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia

Ref 503 V26s8

VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics

Ref 510.202 V871g

Webster’s New World Dictionary of Mathematics

Ref 510.3 K18wn

Women in Chemistry and Physics: A Bibliographic Sourcebook

Ref 540.922 W872gr


Also check the On-line Library Catalog for listings of video recordings..


Locating the Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics Collections


Books are arranged on the shelf in broad subject categories.  Major categories are:


500    Pure Sciences

510    Mathematics

520    Astronomy

530    Physics


GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS


E            Department of Energy

NS         National Science Foundation

NAS      National Aeronautics & Space Administration


Materials on these subjects are found in the following areas:


      1st floor, north            Reference

      1st floor, west              Periodicals

      1st floor annex            Government Documents

      2nd floor                       General Book Stacks

      3rd floor                       General Book Stacks


Sources of Journal Articles


PRINT RESOURCES

General Science Index

Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature


ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Academic Search Elite (EbscoHost)

Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost)

Article1st (FirstSearch)

FactSearch (FirstSearch)

Highwire Press

Issues and Controversies

MAS FullText Ultra (EbscoHost)

Today's Science

WorldCat (FirstSearch)


Print and microform indexes and journals are located on the 1st floor, west. 
For a complete list of journals and other periodicals owned by the library, look at Periodical Directory (http://www2.okbu.edu/library/periodcl/index.html)


INTERNET RESOURCES

 

Online databases and indexes

        EBSCOHost:     Full text periodical database

        NetLibrary:       Full text e-book database

        NewsBank:        Full text newspaper database

        First Search:     Periodical and information indexes


WWWeb Sources


ABSTRACT ALGEBRA ONLINE

http://www.math.niu.edu/~beachy/aaol/

 

ALADIN JAVA: A SKY ATLAS

http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/nph-aladin.pl?frame=launching

 

ALBERT EINSTEIN ONLINE

http://www.westegg.com/einstein/

 

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS

http://www.aip.org/

 

ARXIV.ORG EPRINT ARCHIVE

http://xxx.lanl.gov

 

ASK DR. MATH

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/

 

ASTRONOMICAL DATA CENTER

http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc.html

 

ASTRONOMY IN YOUR FACE

http://www.astronomyinyourface.com

 

ASTRONOMY INTERACTIVE NETWORK

http://library.thinkquest.org/15418/ index.html

 

ASTRONOMY ONLINE

http://www.eso.org/outreach/spec-prog/aol/

 

ASTRONOMY THESAURUS

http://msowww.anu.edu.au/library/thesaurus

 

ASTROWEB: ASTRONOMICAL INTERNET RESOURCES

http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb.html

 

CENTER FOR PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS

http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/IUP/Glossary.html

 

CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS EDUCATION PROJECT

http://www.cpepweb.org

 

CORNELL DIGITAL LIBRARY MATH COLLECTION

http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/dienst-data/cdl-math-browse.html

 

DICTIONARY OF ALGORITHMS, DATA STRUCTURES AND PROBLEMS

http://hissa.nist.gov/dads/

 

DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF HISTORICAL ASTRONOMY PICTURES

http://www42.pair.com/infolund/bolaget/DAHAP/

 

DIGSTATS

http://www.cvgs.klz.va.us/DIGSTATS/

 

DIRECTORY OF INTERNET SCIENCE RESOURCES

http://www.libs.uga.edu/science/scires.html

 

DIVISION OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

http://www.sc.doe.gov/production/henp/np/index.html

 

DOCUMENTS OF ASTRONOMICAL HISTORY

http://condor.stcloudstate.edu/~physcrse/astr106/doc.html

 

EPC ASTRONOMY HOMEPAGE

http://www.arrakis.es/~epujol/astronom/

 

EPRINT ARCHIVE MIRROR

http://xxx.imsc.ernet.in

 

FERMILAB LIBRARY

http://fnalpubs.fnal.gov/

 

GERMAN ASTRONOMICAL DIRECTORY

http://www.astronomie.org/gad/

 

GLOSSARY OF SATELLITE TERMS

http://www.bitcentral.com/bcweb/ glossary.asp?glossaryletter=a

 

GREEK ALPHABET

http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/articles/greek/index.asp

 

HALL OF ASTRONOMERS

http://www.AllAboutSpace.com/subjects/ astronomy/glossary/Astronomers.html

 

HEASARC

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov

 

HOW MANY?

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html

 

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/

 

INTERNET PILOT TO PHYSICS

http://physicsweb.org/TIPTOP

 

MARTINDALE’S CALCULATORS ONLINE CENTER

http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/ RefCalculators.html

 

MATH ARCHIVES

http://archives.math.utk.edu/tutorials.html

 

MATH DATABASE

http://www.emis.de/ZMATH/

 

MATH FLASHCARDS

http://www.edu4kids.com/math/

 

MATH FORUM: MATH RESOURCES BY SUBJECT

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/ math.topics.html

 

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING GLOSSARY

http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~hgreenbe/glossary/index.php

 

MATHEMATICS ON THE INTERNET

http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/ Mathlinks/Mathlinks.html

 

MUNICH ASTRONOMICAL ARCHIVE

http://www.maa.mhn.de/home.html

 

NASA ASTROPHYSICS DATA SYSTEM

http://adswww.harvard.edu

 

CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

http://www.ucar.edu/ucar/

 

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY

http://physics.nist.gov

 

NATIONAL NUCLEAR DATA CENTER

http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/

 

NIELS BOHR LIBRARY

http://www.aip.org/history/nblbro.htm

 

NOBEL PRIZE INTERNET ARCHIVE

http://almaz.com/nobel/nobel.html

 

PARTICLE DATA GROUP

http://pdg.lbl.gov/

 

PHYSICS NEWS

http://newton.ex.ac.uk/aip/bigindex.html

 

PHYSICS RELATED LINKS

http://www.ndrs.org/physicsonline/ physlink.html

 

PHYSICS TIMELINE

http://www.weburbia.demon.co.uk/pg/historia.htm

 

PHYSICSTUTOR.COM

http://www.physicstutor.com

 

PLANETARY IMAGE ATLAS

http://www-pdsimage.jpl.nasa.gov/PDS/ public/Atlas/

 

SKYMAPS

http://www.skymaps.com

SLAC LIBRARY

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/

SPACE NEWS.COM

http://www.spacenews.com

STAR JOURNEY

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/stars/index.html

 

STEPHEN HAWKING’S UNIVERSE

http://www.wnet.org/hawking/

 

UC BERKELEY PHYSICS LECTURE DEMONSTRATIONS

http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/physics/physics.html

 

VIEWS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm

 

YOUR WEIGHT ON OTHER WORLDS

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/index.html

 

 


 

 

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