Physics Today March 2002 Volume 55 Number 3

Bruce C. Douglas; W. Richard Peltier; Peter Hess; Howard K. Birnbaum

Published by American Institute of Physics, 2002

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The magazine is spotless with very little wear or damage. There is a mailing label on the front cover. The magazine will be packed with a backing card, bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "The Puzzle of Global Sea-Level Rise" (Measuring the rate of sea-level rise over the past century requires modeling the behavior of Earth's crust over the past 20,000 years) by Bruce C. Douglas and W. Richard Peltier; "Surface Acoustic Waves in Materials Science" (Laser-generated surface waves provide new tools for studying material properties, from linear elastic behavior to fracture) by Peter Hess; "A Personal Reflection on University Research Funding" (A veteran researcher in materials science and engineering argues that research funding needs reform at both the university and funding-agency levels) by Howard K. Birnbaum; plus "Physics Update"; "Letters"; "Search and Discovery" (Warm bedrock forms water beneath a rapidly moving ice stream in central Greenland, From superfluid to insulator: Bose-Einstein condensate undergoes a quantum phase transition, Ultracold neutrons exhibit quantum states in Earth's gravitational field, An energy recover linac is seen as a bright idea); "Issue and Events" (MIT Media lab spawns international offshoots, Math and science suffer in education bill, Neutrino detector lab looking good, Powerful NMR machines debut in US, Bohr letters clarify mystery, Kavli endows ITP, News Notes, Web Watch); "Books" (The Politics of Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Science, R.M. Friedman, reviewed by H. Kragh), (Mechanics of Motor Proteins and the Cytoskeleton, J. Howard reviewed by A. Mogilner), (Elements of Modern X-Ray Physics, J. Als-Nielsen and D. McMorrow reviewed by I. Robinson), (Positron Physics, M. Charlton and J.W. Humberston, reviewed by A.P. Mills, Jr.), (Photonics: Linear and Nonlinear Interactions of Laser Light and Matter, R. Menzel reviewed by E.M. Garmire); "New Products" (Focus on spectroscopy); "We Hear That"; "Obituaries" (John Ralph Apel, Paul Falk-Vairant, Peter Mazur, Robert Alexander Mendelson Jr., Rein Silberberg, Robert Allen Sparks, Thomas Howard Stix); and "Information Exchange".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Physics Today March 2002 Volume 55 Number 3
• Publisher: American Institute of Physics
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued