1. P.W. Bridgman, The Logic of Modern Physics, MacMillan, New York 1927, reprinted by Arno Press, New York, 1980.
2. Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th ed., Merriam-Webster Inc., Springfield, MA, 2003, see also: http://www.m-w.com/.
3. Chemistry 2000, Workbook and Lecture Notes;Wunderlich,1987
4. B. Wunderlich, Thermal Analysis of Polymeric Materials, Springer, Berlin, 2005; see also the 36-lecture computer course, Thermal Analysis of Materials, available by downloading through the internet: http://web.utk.edu/∼athas, or via the European Virtual Institute for Thermal Metrology: http://www.evitherm.org/index.asp at their home page for thermal analysis and calorimetry.