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November 1958
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Articles
A further report on physics teaching in Java
Physics Today 11 (11), 24–26 (1958);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3062282
Nearly two years ago, W. C. Dickinson wrote in Physics Today of the work of a team of Americans engaged in a program of co‐operation in physics education in Indonesia. The following article is intended to bring that story up to date.
NBS Technical Advisory Committee for Mathematics
Physics Today 11 (11), 28–30 (1958);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3062283
The following report was submitted earlier this year to the director of the National Bureau of Standards in accordance with the recommendations of the ad hoc committee (“the Kelly Committee”), which was formed in 1953 to evaluate the Bureau's functions and operations.
Books
Physics of Nuclear Fission: Supplement No. 1 of the Soviet Journal Atomnaya Energiya
Physics Today 11 (11), 48–50 (1958);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3062291
Thermodynamics, Electrostatics, and the Biological Significance of the Properties of Matter
Physics Today 11 (11), 50–52 (1958);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3062292
Miscellany
Obituaries
We Hear That
Meetings
Calendar
Going with the flow in unstable surroundings
Savannah D. Gowen; Thomas E. Videbæk; Sidney R. Nagel
Measuring violin resonances
Elizabeth M. Wood
Focus on cryogenics, vacuum equipment, materials, and semiconductors
Andreas Mandelis