The Physics Quick Reference Guide

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Richard Cohen
Springer Science & Business Media, Apr 15, 1998 - Science - 209 pages
This book consists of material in the first chapter of A Physicist's Desk Reference, updated and supplemented by additional new data. It's a self-contained, quick reference guide to the most commonly used mathematical formulas, tables of data, symbols, units, standard nomenclature, and fundamental constants in physics. A useful bibliography to more complete sources of data is also included.
 

Contents

PHYSICAL QUANTITIES SYMBOLS AND UNITS
1
12 Physical quantities
2
13 Systems of units
6
14 Dimensional and dimensionless ratios
7
15 Symbols and nomenclature
8
THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS SI
17
21 Realization of the meter
19
22 Derived units
20
78 Materials for nuclear physics
138
MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS
141
82 Factorials
143
84 Progression and series
144
85 Taylor series
145
86 Differentiation
146
88 Logarithmic functions
147
89 Exponential functions
148

23 Supplementary derived units
23
RECOMMENDED SYMBOLS FOR PHYSICAL QUANTITIES
37
32 Quantum mechanics
47
PRECISE PHYSICAL CONSTANTS
49
42 Unit systems
51
43 Physical constants
52
44 Fundamental constants
54
PHYSICS FORMULARY
63
52 Wave propagation
74
53 Electricity and magnetism
76
54 Hydrogenlike atom nonrelativistic
93
55 Phase shift analysis
95
56 Thermodynamics
96
ENGINEERING PHYSICS
107
62 Friction
112
63 Electromagnetic frequency bands
113
64 International temperature scale
115
65 Heat transfer
117
PROPERTIES OF MATTER
123
72 The elements
124
73 Densities
131
74 Viscosity
132
75 Surface tension
135
76 Vapor pressure
136
77 Compressibility
137
810 Trigonometric functions
149
811 Inverse trigonometric functions
152
812 Hyperbolic functions
153
813 Inverse hyperbolic functions
155
814 Gamma function
156
815 Definite integrals
157
816 Delta function
158
817 Vector algebra
159
818 Orthogonal coordinate systems
163
819 General curvilinear spaces
167
820 Fourier series and Fourier transforms
169
821 Laplace transforms
171
822 Bessel functions
173
823 Spherical harmonics
176
824 Vector addition ClebschGordan Wigner coefficients
179
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
183
92 Convolution of distributions characteristic function
184
93 Some common distributions
186
94 Statistics parameter estimation
191
95 Bayesian statistics inverse probability
192
96 Parameter estimation leastsquares fitting
193
97 Error propagation
198
SUBJECT INDEX
201
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