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Readings from the Physics
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Last update: 5 June 2001.
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Guest Editorial
Defending Freedom of Speech: What Have We Accomplished? (click
here)
The
Cost of Physics Journals
Henry H. Barschall
December 1986, pages 34
The
Cost Effectiveness of Physics Journals
Henry
H. Barschall
July 1988, pages 56
Statement
Kenneth W. Ford and Gloria B. Lubkin
November 1988, page 9
Statement
Kenneth W. Ford and Gloria B. Lubkin
March 1989, page 13
Cost-Effectiveness of Physics Journals
Henry H. Barschall
March 1989, pages 15, 154
Challenge to Scholarly Surveys Again Rejected
AIP/APS
January 1996, page 58
Henry
Herman Barschall
Willy
Haeberli, Paul M. DeLuca Jr, Jay C. Davis
June 1997, page 106
Federal Court Rules for APS and AIP in Dispute with Gordon & Breach over Survey of Journals
Irwin Goodwin
October 1997, pages 93-94
Lawsuit Update: More on APS/AIP's Dispute with Gordon & Breach
Letters
September 1998, pages 15, 92-93
Journal Comparison Shopping Revisited
Toni Feder
December 1999, pages 55-56
Articles
The
Physics of Earthquakes (click
here)
Rubbing and
Scrubbing
Part 1 Part
2
Georg Hahner and Nicholas Spencer
September 1998, pages 22
Earthquake
Yields First Real Evidence Of Remote Triggering
Bertram
Schwarzchild
September 1993, pages 17
Bolivian
Quake Give a Rare Glimpse of Earth's Interior
Ray Ladbury
October 1994, pages 17
Experiments Find Hysteresis and Precursors in the Stick-Slip Friction of a Granular System
Gloria B. Lubkin
September 1997, pages 17-19
Energy Budget of Deep-Focus Earthquakes Suggests They May be Slip-Sliding Away
Ray Ladbury
April 1998, pages 19-21
New Measurements Constrain Models of Mantle Upwelling along a Midocean Ridge
Barbara Goss Levi
July 1998, pages 17-19
Global Seismic Hazard Map Unveiled
April 2000, page 59
Flexible Methods for Microfluidics (click
here)
Physics Update
January 2000, page 9
Motile Behavior of Bacteria
Howard C. Berg
January 2000, pages 24-29
Physics Update
June 1998, page 9
Stretch Genes
Part 1 Part
2
Robert H. Austin, James P. Brody, Edward C. Cox, Thomas Duke and Wayne Volkmuth
February 1997, pages 32-38
The Early Days of Pugwash (click
here)
Bomb Apologetics: Farm Hall, August 1945
Jeremy Bernstein and David Cassidy
August 1995, pages 32-36
Groves and the Scientists: Compartmentalization and the Building of the Bomb
Part 1 Part
2
Stanley Goldberg
August 1995, pages 38-43
Physicists in Politics
Part 1 Part
2
Kurt Gottfried
March 1999, pages 42-48
Peace Prize Shared by Physicist of Conscience and Pugwash Movement Founded to Avert Nuclear War
Irwin Goodwin
December 1995, pages 61-62
Search and Discovery
Farthest Supernova Strengthens Case for Accelerating Cosmic Expansion (click
here)
Very Distant Supernovae Suggest that the Cosmic Expansion Is Speeding Up
Bertram Schwarzchild
June 1998, page 17-19
Balloon Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background Strongly Favor a Flat Cosmos
Bertram Schwarzchild
July 2000, page 17-19
Researchers Uncover the Neural Details of How Barn Owls Locate Sound Sources
(click
here)
How We Localize Sound
William M. Hartmann
November 1999, pages 24-29
Issues and Events
Twin Photonics Centers Funded by High-Tech Entrepreneur (click
here)
Career Opportunities
in Optics (PDF or HTML)
Anthony
M. Johnson and C. Breck Hitz
May 2000, pages 25-28
SAGE
Fends Off Gallium Raid (click
here)
A
Besieged SAGE Is Safe, for Now
Toni
Feder
June 1997, page 73
Neutrino
Experiment's Gallium Remains under Siege
Toni Feder
August 1998, pages 55
Reference Frame
Scaling Mount
Planck I: A View from the Bottom (click
here)
Mass without Mass I: Most of Matter
Frank Wilczek
November 1999, page 11-13
Physics
Update (click here)
Novel Composite Medium Exhibits Reversed Electromagnetic Properties
Richard Fitzgerald
May 2000, pages 17-18
Livermore's Big Guns Produce Liquid Metallic Hydrogen
Ray Ladbury
May 1996, pages 17-18
Letters
ENIAC or ABC (click
here)
The Computing Revolution and the Physics Community
Part 1 Part
2
Alfred E. Brenner
October 1996, pages 24-30
The first electronic computer
Part 1 Part
2
Allan R. Mackintosh
March 1987, pages 25-32
Quantum Theory Comes in Waves and Particles (click
here)
What is Quantum Theory?
Frank Wilczek
June 2000, pages 11-12
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2001 American Institute of Physics
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