The Physics Library subscribes to a large number of periodicals that are accessible to a beginning physics student. These include:

  1. Scientific American
  2. Physics Today
  3. Physics World
  4. The Physics Teacher
  5. The CERN Courier

Reference Books

There are a number of excellent references for formulas and constants in physics. A recent edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry in Physics will be useful. For particle physics constants and formulas, a good place to start is the web site of the Particle Data Group: