Physics  Tags: physics astronomy energy  

Things in this category or the equivalent to what you would find on the shelf in a library.  This includes:

• Books on a single topic by one (or two or three...) authors
• Books which are edited volumes where each chapter is written by a different expert
• Audio-visual material such as DVDs, videos, CDs, etc.
• Scores and librettos

1. Try a title or keyword search
2. Look at several potentially useful records from the results list and copy down words and phrases from the "subject" area
3. Go back to the search screen and search BY SUBJECT using the words you copied from your initial searching
4. When you find something useful, either copy down the call number and location (if it is in our library) or submit an interlibrary loan

More detailed directions can be found on our Searching Databases page.

QC = Physics

• 1 - 999 Physics
• 5.5 - 6.4 Philosophy. Methodology
• 6.9 - 16 History. Biography
• 19.2 - 20.7 Mathematical physics
• 20.8 - 48 Study and teaching of physics
• 81 - 114 Weights and measures
• 120 - 168.85 Descriptive and experimental mechanics
• 170 - 197 Atomic physics. Constitution and properties of matter. Including quantum theory, solid- state physics
• 220 - 246 Acoustics. Sound
• 251 - 338.5 Heat
• 350 - 467 Optics. Light. Including spectroscopy
• 474 - 496.9 Radiation physics (General)
• 501 - 766 Electricity and magnetism
• 770 - 798 Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity
• 801 - 809 Geophysics. Cosmic physics
• 811 - 849 Geomagnetism
• 851 - 999 Meteorology. Climatology

To browse the books in SUNY Potsdam Libraries by call number, go to Advanced Browse Search and enter a call number stem; e.g. QC1, or QC350. Then move up or down through the list.