Rev. enl. ed. of: Use of physics literature. 1975.

Includes indexes.

1. Introduction
2. The scope and control of physics and its literature
3. Science libraries, reference material and general treatises
4. Abstracting, indexing and online services
5. Atomic and molecular physics
6. Chemical physics, statistical physics and thermodynamics
7. Computational physics
8. Crystallography
9. Electricity, magnetism and electromagnetism
10. Electronics and computer hardware
11. Experimental heat and low temperature physics
12. Geophysics, astrophysics and meterorological physics
13. History of physics
14. Mechanics and acoustic
15. Nuclear and particle physics
16. Optics and spectroscopy
17. Semiconductor physics
18. Theoretical physics
19. Grey literature
20. Patent literature