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Comprehensive and up to date, this fourth edition is the ideal reference tool for students of physics, either at school or at university. Containing many new entries, and now with biographies of key scientists, it covers all the commonly encountered terms and concepts of physics.
— Over 4,000 clear and concise entries
— New entries include group theory, radioisotope imaging, fractional quantum Hall effect, and Lorentz force
— Feature articles on important topics — Chronologies chart discoveries in main fields of the subject
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John Johnson
reviewed A dictionary of physics on November 02, 2012 A dictionary of physics
Don't let the title fool you. This is 95% chemistry, and maybe 10% physics (5% where the two overlap). Still, it's sort of useful for a (condensed matter) physicist, though not as useful as a number of other standard resources, and practically useless in general for most physicists. I'd imagine if I were a chemist this would be a very important resource. But as a particle physicist this pales in comparison to something like the PDG I get in the mail every 2 years for free. On one hand, I probably wouldn't be so harsh on this if "Physics" wasn't in the title. On the other hand, I wouldn't even own it if "Physics" wasn't in the title. So since this shit cost me well over a hundred bucks I'm not about to baby it with some kind of even-handed review from a non-physicist perspective. As its title demands, it requires the perspective of chemists and physicists both. Don't put physics in the title of your book if it doesn't make up a bulk of the contents. I got this probably seven or so years ago, so I'm not bothered by its useless contents any longer. I just look at it on the shelf every now and then, frowning and shaking my head every time I see "Physics" in the title. If you're a physicist you'll find this useless, unless you're in the field of condensed matter or molecular physics. And then, only if your work heavily overlaps with chemistry.
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