SUBJECT / RESEARCH GUIDE

Physics Books/E-Books

Library Catalogue
An Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is an online portal of Library Automation System used to search the library resources and members transactions. OPAC is user-friendly and accessible anywhere, any time.  Users can search the books by entering various fields like Title, Author, Subject, Keyword, Accession &  Class Numbers, etc, and track the physical location of books in the Library. In OPAC users can create their account and set their password.  Users can get the information about the availability of the book(s) in the Library, books on their possession, due date(s), they can also track their account to know the transactions done, overdue fine accumulated and they can reserve the books online. OPAC saves the time of user as it provides complete details of the library resources available. Users can search books using OPAC through their smartphones and tablets also.
How to locate Physics books in the library
The Library, IIT Ropar uses Dewey Decimal Classification system and simple author code to classify books. 

A class number is a simple number used to identify & locate books in the library. 

Example: 530 for Problems in General Physics in Physics.

An author code is simple letters used to identify titles written by a different author, i.e,  first three letters of the last name of he of the first author / first letter of the last name of the second author (if any). 
Call No.              Subject Groups
530                      :   Problems in General physics
530.0285             :  Computational Methods in Physics & Engineering
531                      :  Classical Mechanics
531.38                 :  Theory of Elasticity
535                      :  Optics
539                      : Quantum Physics
Year-wise Books & E-Books added
S. N.
Title
Author
Year of Addition
 
1
   
Koya, V.K.B.
 
2020
 
2
   
Tiwari, A.
 
2019
 
3
   
Blumenhagen, L.D.
 
2019
 
4
   
Prasad, R.
 
2019
 
5
   
Weinberg, S.
 
2019
 
6
   
Das, A.
 
2019
 
7
   
Nakahara, M.
 
2019
 
8
   
Hansora, D.
 
2019
 
9
   
Artyom M.G.
 
2019
 
10
   
Blumenhagen, L.D.
 
2019
 
11
   
Cabibbo, N.
 
2019
 
12
   
Das, A.
 
2019
 
13
   
Gbur, J., G.
 
2019
 
14
   
Arnold, V.I.
 
2019
 
15
   
Kleinert, H.
 
2019
 
16
   
Poisson, E.
 
2019
 
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