Physics

In the ASU Library: 

• Use the ASU Library's Catalog 

  • To find a specific book, use the Title or Author filters in the advanced search.

  • To find books on a physics topic, use a Keyword search such as:
    • heat transfer
    • particle accelerators
    • quantum theory

In Other Libraries:   

• Use WorldCat.org

Note: If the ASU Library doesn't have a book that you need, you may request the book via our Interlibrary Loan Service.

Electronic Books:

Most of our electronic books are listed in the catalog, however, to search the full text of a book, use the native search engine for these collections:

• Knovel
  Over 2,000 science and engineering handbooks in which you can find facts, formula and property data.
• O’Reilly for Higher Education
  Primarily covers books on computer programming.
• Ebook Central
  Books from major publishers in all subject areas.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  A  collection of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
• eBooks on EBSCOhost
  Books from major publishers in all subject areas.
• SPIE Digital Library
  Digital Library of the SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

The full text of books may also be searched by using Google Books.

A majority of ASU Library's books are going to be located in the High Density Storage Collection Stacks on the Polytechnic campus. The best way to access these books will be to search for them in the library catalog using One Search and requesting the book be sent to the ASU Library location of your choice for pick up.

However, there are still physics books located at a couple of the ASU Library locations:

• Noble Library (Tempe campus)
  Contains books related to all areas of physics.
• Fletcher Library (West Valley campus)
  Contain small collections of physics, primarily duplicates of what is available in Noble Library. 

The ASU Library also has an extension collection of electronic books available online.