Subject Guides
Physics
what are these?
Databases
ScienceDirect College Edition
The collection contains four million articles prior to 1995, and 2.75 million articles from after 1994. GFU subscribes to the Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Physical Sciences and Engineering journal packages.
Academic Search Premier
An interdisciplinary database that provides full text articles. This is the only database at GFU that includes full text access to the Journal of Chemical Physics (1 year embargo).
Engineering Village
The most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world. Covers all fields of engineering.
Web resources
NIST Web Book
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) site provides chemical and physical data of the highest quality.
Global Change Master Directory
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Jet Propulsion Lab
Finding books
By subject search
Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.
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Physics Philosophy
By call number
If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.
| Subclass QB | |
| QB1-991 | Astronomy |
| QB1-139 | General |
| QB140-237 | Practical and spherical astronomy |
| QB275-343 | Geodesy |
| QB349-421 | Theoretical astronomy and celestial mechanics |
| QB455-456 | Astrogeology |
| QB460-466 | Astrophysics |
| QB468-480 | Non-optical methods of astronomy |
| QB495-903 | Descriptive astronomy |
| QB500.5-785 | Solar system |
| QB799-903 | Stars |
| QB980-991 | Cosmogony. Cosmology |
| Subclass QC | |
| QC1-999 | Physics |
| QC1-75 | General |
| QC81-114 | Weights and measures |
| QC120-168.85 | Descriptive and experimental mechanics |
| QC170-197 | Atomic physics. Constitution and properties of matter |
Google search: Physics
This Google Custom Search engine searches quality, discipline specific web sites selected by the librarians.
