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New Books List for March and April 2006

The following books were received at the Physics Library during March and April 2006. Please check library stacks or ask library staff for assistance. Check MadCat to see if anyone has the book checked out or request that a book be sent to a library near you with our Book Retrieval Service.

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QC16 F49 A3 2006. . . . CLASSIC FEYNMAN: ALL THE ADVENTURES OF A CURIOUS CHARACTER. By Richard P. Feynman. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.

ONLINE ONLY. . . . DENCE Z-PINCHES: 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DENSE Z-PINCHES. (Proceedings) Edited by Jeremy Chittenden. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 808] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/808.jsp)

Q111 S71 v. 212. . . . ELECTRONIC STATES IN CRYSTALS OF FINITE SIZE: QUANTUM CONFINEMENT OF BLOCK WAVES. By Shang Yuan Ren. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2006. [Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, v. 212] (Available soon on the Internet at http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=1615-0430&volume=212)

QC793.26 F7513 2005. . . . ELEMENTARY PARTICLES: BUILDING BLOCKS OF MATTER. By Harald Fritzsch. Singapore: World Scientific, 2005.

QC174.12 F49 2005. . . . FEYNMAN'S THESIS: A NEW APPROACH TO QUANTUM THEORY. By Richard P. Feynman, edited by Laurie M. Brown. Singapore: World Scientific, 2005.

QC173.4 C74 A44 2005. . . . FIELD THEORY, THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP, AND CRITICAL PHENOMENA: GRAPHS TO COMPUTERS. 3rd Edition. By D. J. Amit. Singapore: World Scientific, 2005.

QC793.5 N42 I58 2004. . . . FIFTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS AND THEIR ORIGIN. (Proceedings) Edited by Y. Suzuki, et al. Singapore: World Scientific, 2005.

Z253.4 L38 K66 2004. . . . GUIDE TO LATEX: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR COMPUTER TYPESETTING. 4th Edition. By Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2004. (permanent reserve)

ONLINE ONLY. . . . HIGH ENERGY DENSITY AND HIGH POWER RF. (Proceedings) Edited by David K. Abe and Gregory Nusinovich. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. [AIP Conference Proceedings, no. 807] (Available on the Internet at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/807.jsp)

QC173.65 M47 2005. . . . IT'S ABOUT TIME: UNDERSTANDING EINSTEIN'S RELATIVITY. By N. David Mermin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

QC173 H17513 2005. . .. PHYSICS OF ATOMS AND QUANTA: INTRODUCTION TO EXPERIMENTS AND THEORY. 7th Edition. By Hermann Haken and Hans Christoph Wolf. Berlin: Springer, 2005. [Advanced Texts in Physics]

QC174.15 T36 2005. . . . PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN QUANTUM MECHANICS. By Kyriakos Tamvakis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

QC794.6 S85 T48 2003. . . . PROGRESS IN STRING THEORY: TASI 2003 LECTURE NOTES. (Proceedings). Edited by Juan M. Maldacena. Singapore: World Scientific, 2005.

QC174.15 B37 2006. . . . QUANTUM MECHANICS SOLVER: HOW TO APPLY QUANTUM THEORY TO MODERN PHYSICS. 2nd Edition. By Jean-Louis Basdevant and Jean Dalibard. Berlin: Springer, 2006. [Ecole Polytechnique]

QC173.6 F67 2006. . . . SHORT COURSE IN GENERAL RELATIVITY. 3rd Updated Edition. By James Foster and J. David Nightingale. New York: Springer, 2006.

QC173 F7223813. . . . THEORETICAL ATOMIC PHYSICS. 3rd Edition. By Harald Friedrich. Berlin: Springer, 2006.

Q111 S71 v. 214. . . . UNCONVENTIONAL SUPERCONDUCTORS: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE ORDER-PARAMETER SYMMETRY. By Gernot Goll. Berlin: Springer, 2006. [Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, v. 214] (Available on the Internet at http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=1615-0430&volume=214)

QC175.16 M6 P37 2006. . . . VAN DER WAALS FORCES: A HANDBOOK FOR BIOLOGISTS, CHEMISTS, ENGINEERS, AND PHYSICISTS. By V. Adrian Parsegian. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.