The Physics Quick Reference GuideRichard Cohen 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 |
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Common terms and phrases
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