Physics
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Information Sources
The Library provides access to databases to search for literature on Physics. Some important ones are:
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Physics Collection
Description
Total size of the collection: about 15,000 titles spread across a number of locations of which the most important are the Science Library and the University Library. The collection of physics is university wide at the level of a collection for teaching and research. The collection is strongly focused on the needs resulting from current research. Physics is classified under section 33.** of the Dutch Basic Classification.
The mean of the physics-categories is on the level of a research collection. The following items are at the research level:
- History of physics (especially the theory of relativity and A. Einstein);
- Didactics of physics (didactics for secondary science education);
- Mathematical physics;
- Classical optics;
- Relativity, gravitation;
- Thermodynamics;
- Statistical physics;
- Modern optics;
- Physics of elementary particles and fields;
- Quantum field theory;
- Properties of specific particles, resonances;
- Condensed matter, generally.