Physical Constants: Selected for Students

Units.- The international system of units (SI).- The CGS system of units.- Astronomical and Geodetical Data.- Positions of selected fixed stars.- Miscellaneous constants.- Constitution of the Atmosphere.- The Earth.- The Planets.- Constants of the Sun, Earth and Moon.- Standard times of the world.- General Physics.- Reduction of weights to vacuo.- Moments of inertia.- Reduction of weights to vacuo: Nomogram 1.- Height from barometer readings: Nomogram 2.- Barometer temperature correction: Nomogram 3.- Meniscus correction for mercury columns: Nomogram 4.- Atomic weights.- Properties of semiconductor elements.- Electron shell structure, ground state, and ionization potential of neutral atoms of the elements.- Molecular bond constants.- Bond angles.- Trans-uranium elements.- Naturally occurring isotopes.- Nuclear constants.- Elastic constants of solids.- Compressibility of liquids.- Properties of plastics.- Densities.- Density of dry air: Nomogram 5.- Viscosities.- Surface tension.- Solubilities.- Screwthread dimensions.- Heat.- Vapour pressures.- Wet and dry bulb hygrometer tables.- Critical constants of gases.- Thermal constants of the elements.- Thermal constants of common substances.- Fixed points of the temperature scale.- Radiation constants.- Light.- Photometric units.- Emission spectra.- The electromagnetic spectrum.- Refractive indices.- Rotatory powers.- Reflecting power of metals.- Magnetism and Electricity.- Electromotive forces.- Magnetic properties of ferromagnetic substances.- Magnetic susceptibility.- Change of resistance of bismuth in a transverse magnetic field.- Magneto-optical rotation (Faraday effect).- Approximate values of the magnetic elements.- Resistivities of some common substances.- Rapid calculation of wire resistances: Nomogram 6.- Thermo-electric e.m.f. of some common metals and alloys, against lead.- Standard wire gauge.- Sparking distances, spherical electrodes.- Electrochemical equivalents.- Resistor/capacitor colour code.- Conductivity and equivalent conductivity of aqueous solutions.- Dielectric constant and dielectric strength.- Electron beam constants.- X-ray data.- Atomic and molecular constants.- Radioactivity constants of naturally occurring radioelements.- Mass absorption coefficients for X- and gamma rays.- Sound.- Velocity of sound.- Measurement of noise.- Equal tempered scale.- General Constants.- Quantum interconversion table: Nomogram 7.- Four-figure Logarithms.- Four-figure Antilogarithms.- Natural Sines.- Natural Cosines.- Natural Tangents.- Reciprocals.- Squares.