Research Guides: Physics: Getting Started

Welcome to the Physics research guide! Use this guide as a starting point for your research in this subject area.

Highlighted Resources

arXiv.org
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv. The repository is maintained and operated by Cornell Tech
Scitation
Scitation is the online journal platform of the AIP, providing access to news, comment, analysis and research in the Physical Sciences.
Davidson College has access to the following journals from AIP:
American Journal of Physics
Applied Physics Letters
Applied Physics Letters
Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
Computing in Science & Engineering
Journal of Applied Physics
Journal of Applied Physics
Journal of Laser Applications
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data
Noise Control
Physics of Fluids
Physics of Plasmas
Review of Scientific Instruments
Review of Scientific Instruments
Sound: Its uses and Control
The Journal of Chemical Physics
The Journal of Chemical Physics
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
The Physics Teacher

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
The full text of the most recent edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
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Gale eBooks Reference Library
The full text of over 1,000 reference books -- including many scholarly subject encyclopedias -- covering a wide variety of disciplines and subjects. A good source for background information. Includes a collection of Physics reference e-books.