SCS Reading Room:

Science & Technology 1, Room 206

The SCS Reading Room is intended to serve SCS faculty and students as a convenient place to browse literature and books of interest. This facility is often used as a meeting place and classroom as well. Materials available focus on the general area of Scientific Computation, but also include books and journals related to specific scientific disciplines. Most of the journals currently housed in the SCS Reading Room are associated with the Space Sciences area, but we are actively encouraging faculty in other areas to allow their professional journals to be housed in the Reading Room.

Journals currently available include:

Astrophysical Journal

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

For a list of the available books organized by categories, please Click Here.

Books currently available include:

A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy, Simon Newcomb, Dover Publications, 1960

Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, Vol 18 1993, Editors, Socolow, Anderson, Harte, Annual Reviews Inc., 1993 (ISBN 0-8243-2318-1)

A Festschrift for Maurice Goldhaber, Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Series II Vol. 40, ed. by A. W. Sunyar and J. Weneser, New York Academy of Sciences, 1980 (ISBN 0-89766-086-2)

Advances in Nuclear Physics, Volumes 13-16, Edited By J. W. Negele and Erich Vogt, Plenum Press

An Introductory Treatise On The Lunar Theory, Ernest W. Brown, Dover Publications, 1960

An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics, F. R. Moulton, Macmillan Co., 1964

An Elementary Survey of Celestial Mechanics, Y. Ryabov, Dover Publications, 1961

An Introduction to Thermodynamics, the Kinetic theory of Gases, and Statistical Mechanics, Francis Weston Sears, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1959

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volumes 19,22, 27-29, ed. by G. Burbidge, D. Layzer, J.G. Phillips, Annual Reviews Inc.

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 25, 26, 1993-4, Lumley, Van Dyke, Reed, Annual Reviews Inc. (ISBN 0-8242-0726-7)

Tables Of Integrals and Other Mathematical Data, H. B. Dwight, Macmillan Co., 1961

Application of Von Zeipel's Method to Motion About the Earth-Moon Triangular Libration Points Including the Influence of the Sun, Bob E. Schutz, University of Texas at Austin, 1969

Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics, International Geophysics Series, Vol 30, Adrian E. Gill, Academic Press, Inc., 1982 (ISBN 0-12-283520-4)

Atmospheric Radiation, R. M. Goody and T. L. Young, Oxford University Press, 1989 (ISBN 0-19-505134-3)

Atoms and Light: Interactions, John N. Dodd, Plenum Press, 1991 (ISBN 0-306-4374-4)

Basic Physics of the Solar System, Blanco and McCuskey, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1961

Basic Theories of Physics, Mechanics and Electrodynamics, Peter Gabriel Bergmann, Dover Publications, Inc., 1949

Big Ear, John Kraus, Cygnus-Quasar Books, 1976

Biochemicals, Organic Compounds for Research and Diagnostic Reagents, Sigma Chemical Company, 1994

Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals 1992-93, Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., 1992

Celestial Mechanics Part I, Shlomo Sternberg, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1969

Celestial Mechanics Part II, Shlomo Sternberg, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1969 (ISBN 8053-9103-7)

Computers and Automation, John A. Brown, Arco Publishing Co., 1968

Contemporary Climatology, Ann Henderson-Sellers and Peter J. Robinson, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1991 (ISBN 0-582-30057-6)

Dark Companions of Stars, Peter Van de Kamp, D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1986 (ISBN 90-277-2270-6)

Elements of Physics, George Shortley and Dudley Williams, Prentice-Hall Inc., 1955

Evolution of the Solar System, Alfven Hannes, NASA, 1976

Examining the Big Bang and Diffuse Background Radiations, ed. by Menas Kafatos and Yoji Kondo, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 (ISBN 0-7923-3815-4)

Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac, ed. by Kenneth Seidelmann, University Science Books, 1992 (ISBN 0-935702-68-7) (2 copies)

Exploring the Universe with the IUE Satellite, Astrophysics and Space Science Library Vol. 129, Y. Kondo Editor in Chief, D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1987 (ISBN 90-277-2380-X)

From Newton to Mandelbrot, D. Stauffer and H. E. Stanley, Springer-Verlag, 1990 (ISBN 3-540-52661-7)

Fundamentals of Celestial Mechanics 2nd Edition, J. M. A. Danby, Willmann-Bell, Inc., 1988 (ISBN0-943396-20-4)

Galactic Astronomy, Dimitri Mihalas, W. H. Freeman and Co., 1968

Gravitation and the Universe, Robert H. Dicke, American Philosophical Society, 1970

Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 71st Edition (1990-1991), David R. Lide Editor in Chief, CRC Press, 1990 (ISBN 0-8493-0471-7)

Human Intervention in the Climatology of Arid Lands, ed. by Donald R. Haragan, University of New Mexico Press, 1990 (ISBN 0-8263-1224-1)

International School of Intermediate Energy Nuclear Physics (Proceedings), ed. by Bergere, Costa, Schaerf, World Scientific 1984 (ISBN 9971-950-22-7)

Internal Conversion Processes, ed. by J. H. Hamilton, Academic Press, 1966

Introduction to Modern Algebra, College Mathematics Series, Neal H. McCoy, Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1960

Introduction to Numerical Analysis, Carl-Erik Froberg, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1965

Mathematical Theories of Planetary Motions, Otto Dziobek, Dover Publications, Inc., 1962

Meteorology, Richard A. Anthes, MacMillan Publishing Co., 1992 (ISBN 0-02-303660-5)

Methods of Experimental Physics, Volume 5 Part A, ed. by Luke C. L. Yuan, Academic Press, 1963

Methods od Experimental Physics, Volume 5 Part B, ed. by Luke C. L. Yuan, Academic Press, 1963

Monsoon Meteorology, C. S. Ramage, Academic Press Inc. 1971

Motion of a Spacecraft Near a Triangular Libration Point of the Earth-Moon System, Bob E. Schutz, University of Texas, 1966

Nucleosynthesis-Challenges and New Developments, ed. by W. David Arnett and James W. Truran, The University of Chicago Press, 1983 (ISBN 0-226-02787-2)

O Stars and Wolf-Rayet Stars, Peter S. Conti and Anne B. Underhill, NASA, 1988

Observing Visual Double Stars Paul Couteau, MIT Press, 1981 (ISBN 0-262-03077-2)

Physical Fluid Dynamics, D. J. Tritton, Oxford University Press, 1990 (ISBN 0-19-854493-6)

Physics of Climate, Jose P. Peixoto and Abraham H. Oort, American Institute of Physics, 1992 (ISBN 0-88318-712-4)

Planetary Theory, Ernest Brown and Clarence Shook, Dover Publications, 1964

Principles of Electricity and Magnetism, G. Harnwell, McGraw Hill 1949

Principles of Modern Physics, R. B. Leighton, McGraw-Hill, 1959

Radiative Transfer, S. Chandrasekhar, Dover Publications, Inc., 1960

Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis-An Introduction J. A. Richards, Springer-Verlag, 1986 (ISBN 0-387-16007-8)

Right Writer, The Grammar and Style Checker Users Manual, RightSoft, Inc.

Space Research by Rocket and Satellite, R. L. F. Boyd, Harper and Brothers, 1960

Space Science in the Twenty-First Century: Imperatives for the Decades 1995-2015 Mission To Planet Earth Task Group on Earth Sciences Space Science Board Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources National Research Council, National Academy Press, 1988 (ISBN 0-309-03890-1)

Spherical Astronomy, Edgar Woolard and Gerald Clemence, Academic Press, 1966

Stellar Atmospheres, 2nd Edition, Dimitri Mihalas, W. H. Freeman & Company, 1978 (ISBN 0-7167-0359-9)

Stellar Paths Vol. 85, Peter Van de Kamp, D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1981 (ISBN 90-277-1256-5)

The Earth's Problem Climates, Glenn T. Trewartha, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1970 (ISBN 0-299-02270-6)

The Earths Climate: Past and Future, International Geophysics Series, Volume 29, M. I. Budyko, Academic Press, Inc., 1982 (ISBN 0-12-139460-3)

The Physics of Atmospheres, John T. Houghton, Cambridge University Press, 1991 (ISBN 0-521-33956-1)

The Physics of Electricity and Magnetism, William Taussig Scott, John Wiley & Sons,Inc., 1962

The Supernova Story, Laurence A. Marschall, PPlenum Press, 1988 (ISBN 0-306-42955-1)

The Symbiotic Stars, S. J. Kenyon, Cambridge University Press, 1986 (ISBN 0-521-26807-9)

The Theory of Optics, Paul Drude, Dover Publications, Inc., 1959

The World of Mathematics Vol. 2, 3, 4, Peter R. Newman, Simon and Schuster, 1956

Theory of Accretion Disks, NATO ASI Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences-Vol. 290, ed. by Friedrich Meyer, Wolfgang J. Duschl, Juhan Frank and Emmi Meyer-Hofmeister, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989 (ISBN 0-7923-0453-5)

TOPS: Toward Other Planetary Systems, A Report by the Solar System Exploration Division

Treaty on Heavy Ion Science, Vol. 6 Astrophysics, Chemistry, and Condensed Matter, ed. by D. A. Bromley, Plenum Press, 1985 (ISBN 0-306-41786-3)

Turbulent Transfer in the Lower Atmosphere, C. H. B. Priestley, University of Chicago Press, 1968

Uranometria 2000.0, Volume I, The Northern Hemisphere to -6, Wil Tirion, Barry Rappaport, George Lovi, Willmann-Bell, Inc., 1988 (ISBN 0-0943396-14-X)

Weather Prediction By Numerical Process, Lewis F. Richardson, Dover Publications, Inc., 1965

Workshop on Micrometeorology, Duane A. Haugen, Editor, American Meteorological Society, 1973

The list of resources is still being compiled, and is therefore incomplete at this time...

Questions/comments/suggestions about the SCS Reading Room should be addressed to: pbecker@gmu.edu