Physics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:
Minutes, 12 January 1808-16 April 1858
Series
Identifier: Coll-206/1
Scope and Contents
- details of the constitution of the society
- minutes concerning the scientific papers read at society meetings
- minutes concerning membership applications and acceptances by the society
- minutes concerning business matters of the society
Dates:
12 January 1808-16 April 1858
Notata phys: et math: London ..., 1697
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [78]
Scope and Contents
Notes on scientific matters, many of them discussed with Newton, such as why the brachistochrone curve is a cycloid and how a musical chord can have the figure of a catenaria, and a record of curiosities, such as the toads of Surinam, who breed their young on their backs, and floors that can be secured made with dovetails instead of nails.
Dates:
1697
Notata phys: et math: London ..., 1698-1705
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [80]
Scope and Contents
Almost certainly a latter part of Gregory's item 80: 'Notata Phys: et Math: D.G. Lond: 25 June &c 1698'. This covers cone sections, elements of Euclid, errata in a Halley treatment of comets in his own Apollonius project, and a jotting on Scottish history bibliography.
Dates:
1698-1705
Notes on musical chords, c1780-c1803
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/25
Scope and Contents
Volume contains manuscript notes on the physics of music, with numerous diagrams, including a printed one on the bones of the inner ear.
Dates:
c1780-c1803
Papers of Alfred Daniell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-260
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of bundles of manuscript problems in physics, with a mathematical introduction.
Dates:
19th century
Papers of Professor Charles Glover Barkla
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-296
Scope and Contents
- Lectures and notes, 1903, 1917 (E91.105)
- Citation for the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1917 (E96.23)
- Congratulatory telegrams on the award of the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1918-1919 (E96.10)
Dates:
1903-1919
Papers of Professor Sir David Wallace
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1540
Scope and Contents
Papers of Professor Sir David Wallace containing undergraduate lecture notes, research material, contracts, presentations and notebooks from the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre work; lectures and course material; off-prints; personal papers; and miscellaneous material.The material is arranged as follows:Undergraduate lecture notes and tutorials, Edinburgh University, 1963-1968: this section contains material related to Wallace's undergraduate studies...
Dates:
1963-1990
Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton
Fonds — Box MS.2300
Identifier: Coll-37
Scope and Contents
The papers, which are substantial, deal almost exclusively with Appleton's scientific work. There is little personal or private correspondence and almost no surviving material, apart from lectures, speeches and addresses, relating to his public life as scientific administrator or university principal. There are, however, a good run of diaries and engagement books and extensive folders of notes, research ideas, manuscript calculations and data from all periods of Appleton's career, as well as...
Dates:
c 1918-1973
Pendulums,, c1780-c1803
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/27
Scope and Contents
Volume contains manuscript notes on pendulums and related machinery in clocks. Numerous diagrams intersperse, some of them quite grand. At the rear of the volume are several essays on projectiles.
Dates:
c1780-c1803
Pneumatics, Gunpowder, c1780-c1802
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/8
Scope and Contents
Notes, in English and occasional Russian, on the physics of air, principally pressure differentials and sound propagation. Topics include a lengthy discussion of the function and gross anatomy of the ear, barometrical measurement of height; published chart of comparative altitudes of famous mountain peaks, and the overall constitution of the atmosphere. The second half of the volume covers ballistics, mostly: diagrams, calculations, and records of artillery trials. A short, unrelated section at...
Dates:
c1780-c1802