McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Physics

Over 900 expert-authored articles, some with line illustrations and diagrams, are extracted and condensed here from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology... The appendix includes conversion factors, measurement tables, fundamental constants, and a biographical listing of scientists. Also in the appendix is a "Bibliographies" section where titles (books and journals) are grouped by broad subject area. The volume ends with a 4,800-entry index... This book will be useful as a starting point for research in physics... Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; lower-division undergraduates. -- N. Zdravkovska, Georgetown UniversityMcGraw-Hill Companies Staff is the author of 'McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Physics', published 2005 under ISBN 9780071439558 and ISBN 0071439552.