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Database | Description |
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Inspec | Comprehensive access to the literature in physics, computing, engineering, and information technology. View Full Description |
Scitation | Journal content in the field of physics published by AIP, APS, ASCE, ASME, SPIE, etc. View Full Description |
204 Classical Mechanics Calculators
American Institute of Physics
- Has been chartered to promote the advancement and diffusion of physics knowledge and its application. At their site you will be able to read select scientific papers free of charge. Articles are available for document delivery even if you do not subscribe to their journal.
American Journal of Physics
- Includes an online index for articles since 1972. The index can be downloaded at no cost.
Brown University High Energy Physics Group
- Presents a user friendly resource called "Physics Around the Web".
Community of Science
- A global registry designed to provide accurate, timely and easy-to-access information about new funding opportunities and who is working on what subjects and where.
Digital Einstein
- Princeton University Press proudly presents The Digital Einstein Papers, an open-access site for The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, the ongoing publication of Einstein's massive written legacy comprising more than 30,000 unique documents.
Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
High Energy Physics Web Sites
- Has a multitude of links to universities and research centres dealing with this area of physics. CERN - the European Laboratory for Particle Physics has provided the site.
Kan Academy on Physics
MarsQuest Online
- Deals with the current exploration of the planet Mars.
OpticsNet
- The Optical Society of America provides links to academic, industry and government organizations that pursue optics and photonics research and applications.
Physical Reference Data
- Produced by the National Institute of Standards & Technology. This site promotes the areas of physical constants, atomic & molecular spectroscopic data, x-ray & gamma-ray data.
PhysNet: the Worldwide Physics Departments and Documents Network.
- Provides a stable information service for physics.
Science's Next Wave
- A weekly online not-for-profit publication that covers scientific training, career development, the science job market, and current news items and scientific debates. Next Wave is a joint publication of Science Magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Scirus: For Scientific Information Only
- Scirus is a science-specific search engine which examines over 167 million science related Web pages.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
The Physics Classroom
- A massive collection of information and links for physics.
Searching Google
Default Search Settings or How Google Interprets your Query:
Implicit AND |
Google returns pages that match all your search terms with the term Search terms are automatically combined using AND | |
Exact Matching |
Google returns pages that match your search terms exactly | |
Word Variations |
Google returns pages that match variants of your search terms. This means that it will automatically look for correct spelling of misspelled words | |
Common-Word Exclusion |
Google ignores some common words called “stop words,” | the, on, where, how |
32-Word Limit |
Search queries limited to 32 words | |
Not case sensitive |
Capital letters of search terms are ignored | |
Search |
Searches documents by keyword | |
Word order |
Google gives more priority to pages that have search terms in the same order as the query | |
Ignoring Punctuation |
Google ignores most punctuation and special characters including | . ; ? [ ] ( ) @ / * < > |
Truncation |
Automatic – no additional symbols required to search for alternative word endings | |
Search results |
Displays by relevance attributed to Google’s algorithm | |
Compound words |
Searches both the compound word and the with a space between the words | airline air line |
Options to Refine your Search; Crafting Queries with Special Characters, Operators and Symbols:
“phrase searching” |
Use quotations marks around phrases | “birds eye” |
OR and | |
Interchangeable use of OR or |. Results include either search term. OR must be capital letters | tourism OR travel |
- |
Exclude use –immediately before a search term you want to exclude | wine -barrel |
.. |
Specify the results contain numbers in a range | 1800..2000 |
* |
Use *, an asterisk character, known as a wildcard, to match one or more words in a phrase (enclosed in quotes) | “Google * my life” |
synonyms |
Use ~(the tilde symbol) immediately before a search term to include synonyms | ~tourism |
intitle: |
Finds results with your search term in the document title | intitle:tourism |
allintitle: |
Finds results with your search terms in the document title | allintitle:confidential |
inurl: |
Finds results with your search term in the URL | inurl:healthy |
allinurl: |
Finds results with your search terms in the URL | allinurl:google.faq |
Info: |
Finds results about the web page | Info:library.wlu.ca |
related: |
Finds results with content related to a specific website |
related: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ |
filetype: |
Limits your search results to a specific file type. Examples of file types include; doc xls ppt mp4 | filetype:pdf |
site: |
Limits your search to searching within a specific site | site:www.library.wlu.ca |
link: |
Use to see what sites link to a specific website | link:www.library.wlu.ca |
define: |
Find definitions sourced from a range of online resources | define:tourist |
cache: |
See what a cached version of the site looked like. The last time that Google crawled the site |
Cache: http://lwlu.ca |
AROUND(n) |
Proximity search based on the number n. AROUND has to be capitalized | CBC AROUND(20) Harper |
$ |
Find prices | Nexus $ |
# |
Find popular hashtags for trending topics | #leftoverturkey |
_ |
Connect two works. Your search results will find this pair of works linked together or connected with underscore | dog_house |
Movie: |
Include movie: to find movie-related information | Movie:blade runner |
Phonebook: |
Reverse lookup using Google | Phonebook:555-555-1212 |
LaTeX and BibTeX
- a freely available typesetting system that produces professional looking publications
- useful for writing documents that contain mathematical formulas or equations
- create documents with LaTeX using an editor or just using a plain text editor
- prepare your text using special commands to produce effects such as heading styles, bold or italic emphasis, mathematical symbols etc.
- files are formatted as .tex files (do not use accents or spaces in the file name)
- the source code generates printable PDFs that comply with editorial standards
- LaTeX Project
- BibTeX Project
- An updated version of LaTeX is called MikTeX
Resources
- Check out the Primo tags 'latex' for a listing of books including:
- LaTeX and Friends - M.R.C. van Dongen ISBN: 3642238165 Publication Year: 2012 ebook
- Digital Typography using LaTeX - Syropoulos, A; Tsolomitis, A; Sofroniou, N ISBN: 0387952179 Publication Year: 2003 ebook
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